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Slid particularly near the jilants. In March, hoo or 

 dig deep, and as soon as the plants begin to grow, 

 dig the ground with a spade clean and well, going as 

 near the plants as possible, without tUspkcing them : 

 dig again in April, hoe well, and destroy all weeds — 

 about the tirst of JuUe there will be cabbages. The 

 early yorks will soon become sohd, and will furnish 

 food for cows and sheep Until some time in September. 

 In the following March and April sow more early 

 yorks, proceechng as before directed — dig up and ma- 

 nure the ground, and as fast as you cut cabbages, plant 

 cabbages — the last planting should be about the mid- 

 dle of August, with stout plants : these will serve 

 until November. 



When cabbages are planted out in autumn, put finst 

 « row of early yorks, then a row of sugar loaves, and 

 «o on throughout the whole piece. As the early 

 yorks come tirst, you wiD, of coiu-se, cut every otlu-r 

 row, and the early yorks which you are to plant in 

 the summer, will go in the intervals, as the sugar 

 loaves are cut aAvay ; put Swedish turnips in their 

 place, the ground being dug and manured, as in the 

 rase of the aibbages; the turnips should stand in rov *;, 

 two feet apart, and always a foot apart in the row. 



To save cabbage seed, select a few tine specimens, 

 and plant them by themselves, out of the reach of tlio 

 eff(>cts of the blossoms of other plants of the cabbage 

 tribe ; for bees carry the farina from plant to plant, 

 and thus adulterate the seed. But cabbages, though 

 good, are, perhaps, the worst green food for milch 

 <-ows, as they give a bad taste to milk and butter, if 

 old, tainted, or even used in great quantities exclu- 

 sively ; and this is a strong oljection to their general 



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