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that gentleman's plants at this time, I am 

 confident the cabbages would join in a 

 month or fix weeks. But fuch a conduct 

 would undoubtedly be improper upon land 

 of inferior fertility. 



The whole plantation has been horfe- 

 hoed twice, and I found it as clean from 

 weeds as a garden. Tn the tranfplanta- 

 tion, three men in "half a day fet 3000 

 plants. 



Two years ago, Mr. Tucker's cabbages 

 weighed, he calculates, about ] o lb. each 

 at an average : Many of them 23 lb. Laft 

 year, being on a much worfe foil, they 

 were not fo good. 



In refpect to the ufes of them ; he begins 

 to cut about Martinmas. His method is 

 to take up three or four rows at different 

 diflances in the field to admit a cart, and 

 then to pick fuch as require cutting from 

 the whole, by which means the crop lafts 

 vaftly longer than if the cabbages were 

 regularly drawn. The quantity which 

 requires cutting before Chrifimas, is not 

 coniiderable, that being the time when 

 they chiefly come in, They have every 

 year lafted till the end of March, and 

 fome till the beginning of jJpril. They 

 have been of excellent fervice in feeding 

 milch cows, weaned calves, and fatting 

 beafts. If the cows are confined totally 

 to cabbages, the milk has a rank tafte ; but 



if 



