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V)f barler, and two or throe barrels of wheat to pay- 

 the expenses of rent, &-c. 



Accorihng to this plan an acre of land would soon 

 hecome prodig-iouisly fertile, hecause all the manure 

 made during- twelve months is applied to one-fourth 

 of an acre. Every one of the four crops after a fe\V 

 years \vould he great beyond your conception ; the 

 fact is, that " much food is in the tiUage of the poor, 

 hut there is that is destroyed fov want ojf judgment." — 

 Prov. xiii. 33. 



Cabbages arc a very valuable description of green 

 food for cows throughout .the whole year, of which, 

 crops succeeding at regular intervals, can easily W 

 obtained — the earli/ yurk and sugar loaf kinds uhen 

 young, give no unpleasant taste to milk or butter — 

 in order to raise a stock that shall come forward very 

 early in spring, prepare a perch of ground in August, 

 manure this well with short dung, and sow half of it 

 with earlv york, and the other half %vith sugar loaf 

 rabbages, in little drills, three inches apart, the seeils 

 thin in the drill- — the plants should be thinned if 

 nearer than two inches i as soon as the seeds are up, 

 hoe deeply between the ro^vs, and again in a few days, 

 for the more you hoe or dig about the cabbages the 

 better. When the plants shall have attained six- 

 leaves, chgup, manure, and make fine another perch or 

 tAvo, prick out the plants in rows, 8 inches apart, and 3 

 inches in the row, hoe the ground between them often. 

 and they ^\^llgrow up strait and strong. Early in No» 

 vember lay some manure between t.lie ridges in the 

 ^ound intended for the full crop, and turn the ridges 

 "over on this manure, then transplant your cal>bages on 

 the ridges which cover the maniu'e at fifteen inch(>s 

 apart. — here they are to stand for the winter ; watch 

 the slugs, and if any plants fail, supply their place* 

 from the b(?d. If the winter be hard, cover the see<U 

 ling beds at lea,«t, with a little straw or fern laid be» 

 twe«n the rows and the plants, so as not to cover the 

 l*^Ve«-^if the ground becomes hard in winter, hoe it. 



