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rooted cabbage, planted in Autumn, will grow 

 and produce a profitable crop in winter and 

 fpring, will then be good food for his cattle, 

 and fave hay. This is a matter of much im- 

 portance to all farmers, many of them being 

 diftreiled to find fufficient food for their cat- 

 tle in winter and fpring: for this purpofc 

 much land is employed to obtain a good crop 

 of turnips; whereof, however, the farmer is 

 too often difappointed by the fly in fummer, 

 and the froft in winter ; and if the land is 

 very flrong, it is not the moft proper for 

 turnips : but the hoeing farmer may raife a 

 fufficient quantity of the cabbage kinds on a 

 fmall fpot of ground and a very little feed, 

 as an ounce or two will produce plants enough 

 for an acre of ground ; and being transplanted 

 in autumn will furnifli a great deal of good 

 food for his black cattle, (heep, and hogs, in 

 {he winter and fpring. Land that is w t ell 

 hoed is always in good tilth to receive fuch 

 plants; which, if planted upon ridges, may 

 be horfe-hoed in the winter, and produce 

 good crops on light land, or ftrong ; and the 

 hoeing will not only keep the land in heart, 

 without impoverifliing it, but will alfo, keep 

 it in fine tilth for the Succeeding crop. When 

 this is confidered, the health of his cattle, for 

 fatting them, and for the dairy ; likewife the 

 great quantity of good manure that may be 

 thus raifed ; it will be evident to every ex- 

 perienced farmer, that this is an advantage of 



