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and properly secured. If house-room is abundant in the 

 barn, the roots will keep well in a dry place, straw being 

 used to cover the heap. The same mode of taking-up and 

 storing will do for beet-root, kohl rabi, carrots and parsnips. 

 If the quantity of the two latter crops be small, and house- 

 room can be spared, they will keep best in dry sand. 



158. (d.} Cabbages. The cabbage crop is ready for taking 

 up in the end of October or beginning of November. The 

 stem is cut off by a sharp knife the outer leaves are taken off 

 which are decayed or are likely to decay and the heads are 

 stored up in pits much like turnips, or may be housed and 

 covered with straw. Like kohl rabi, cabbages are a hardy 

 crop, and may be left out in the field all winter, being 

 taken up for use when required. 



DIVISION FIFTH. 



GRASSES AND OTHER FORAGE CROPS, AS CLOVER 



LUCERN SAINFOIN VETCHES. 



159. The supply of grass as a feeding material for the 

 stock of our farms is provided for in three ways ; first, by 

 "pasture land;" second, by " meadows ;" and third, by 

 " artificial grasses." The two first belong to what are called 

 " permanent grass fields " the third forms part of the rota- 

 tion of the farm in what is called "alternate husbandry.". 

 In pasture lands, the cattle or other stock are put in to 

 feed from off the field, in meadows the grass is allowed 

 to grow, and is cut down when matured, and made into 

 hay, in artificial grasses, the produce is either eaten off 

 the land directly by the stock put on to it, or it is cut green 

 to be consumed by the stock in the house, or it is cut when 

 matured and made into hay. We shall consider the two 

 classes of " permanent grass " and " artificial " grass lands. 



1 60. Of the one hundred and nineteen species of grasses, 

 which Professor Buckman says make up the British grasses, 



