66 FARM-GARDENING AND SEED-GROWING. 



in, one thousand pounds of bone-flour, or six hundred 

 pounds of guano, harrowed in, will bring a good crop ; but 

 in the case of stable-manure, if more is at hand, it can be 

 used to advantage, and will be a great benefit to the suc- 

 ceeding crop. Land heavily manured for the first crop 

 will require but little more to bring this one. 



A dressing of ashes will also be beneficial, and will 

 have a tendency to destroy the grubs. After plowing, 

 the ground should be well harrowed, smoothed with the 

 back of the harrow, and rows marked out three feet 

 apart. For wide planting, the ground may be furrowed 

 out. and manured in the angles as advised for early cab- 

 bages. This planting has to be done in midsummer 

 usually the first part of July and it is quite necessary to 

 have the ground all marked out and ready for rainy 

 weather, which at this season is apt to be of short dura- 

 tion, and must be taken advantage of! 



Sowing Seed and Growing the Plants. The seed 

 should be sown the first part of May. It is advisable to 

 sow on the fifth and fifteenth for the main crop, using 

 plenty of seed ea*h time to be sure of a full supply of 

 plants, allowing one ounce of seed for three thousand 

 plants, and if there is any surplus, there is generally a 

 demand for them, or at least enough can be sold to pay 

 the expense of raising. The first sown, if planted early 

 in July, will be headed in the fall, and the later ones 

 answer for winter use, as they keep much better than very 

 hard heads. The seed may be sown broadcast, but I pre- 

 fer to mark rows ten inches apart, and an inch and a half 

 deep, on a piece of moderately rich light soil, well pre- 

 pared, in which the seed is deposited rather thinly, and 

 covered by raking in. As soon as the young plants begin 

 to break the soil, sprinkle the bed with air-slaked shell 

 lime, which is to be repeated again when they are nicely 

 up, to prevent the ravages of an insect generally known 

 as the cabbage flea. This must not be neglected, or the 



