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Preparation. Winter fallowed ; and 

 fome a whole year. Some crops 

 limed. 



Time. Sows the latter end of Fe- 

 bruary, and in March for ipring 

 plants ; and in Augufi for winter 

 ones. Tranfplants through the 

 months of May and June, 



Rows. Three to four feet, and plants 

 two.-?— Generally 5445 plants, 



Culture. Horfe hoed twice, and hand 

 hoed as often. Never waters. 



Puration. To Candlemas. 



Produdt. In general from twenty tons 

 to fifty-eight ; average thirty-nine.- 

 Fats and feeds oxen, cows, young 

 cattle and (heep infinitely better than 

 any other food. The increafe of 

 one cow's milk from cabbages two 

 quarts a day, but it tafted. The 

 improvement of an ox of eighty 

 flone, (14$.) fatting four months 

 on cabbages, is on an average 5 /. 

 1 o s. and in proportion per ton (the 

 hay he eats deducted) is 8 s. 6 d. the 

 value of the cabbages. That of a 

 two year old heifer fatting 4/. 4^. and 

 the value per ton of the cabbages eat 

 14/. 7 d. Upon the whole go much 

 farther than turneps, and prepare 

 much better for fpring corn. The 



average 



