76 CABBAGES. 



instance, around Norfolk — a wider distance between 

 the Cabbages, so as to use horse-tools, may be found 

 advisable. 



The Lettuce is cut and marketed in May, before 

 the Cabbages need the room. They are ready for 

 market early in July, and the whole is disposed of 

 before the 20th, leaving full time for Celery. Be- 

 sides the regular quantity of barn-yard manure, an 

 application of three or four hundred pounds to the 

 acre of Peruvian guano, finely-ground bone, or super- 

 phosphate of lime, scattered broadcast before plant- 

 ing, will be found of material use in perfecting the 

 growth of the crop. 



When planted at the distances named, there are 

 usually about twelve thousand marketable heads. 

 Of late years the average price has been sixty dol- 

 lars per thousand, or seven hundred and twenty dol- 

 lars per acre, from early Cabbages. 



Practical gardeners calculate that the Lettuce 

 and Celery will cover all the expenses, leaving the 

 amount realized from the Cabbages as profit. Of 

 course, the cost of yard-manure will affect the net 

 proceeds. At Newark, N. J., or New York, a two- 

 horse load of horse-manure, free from straw, costs 

 only a dollar and a quarter or a dollar and a half. 

 The same kind, at Philadelphia, ^vill cost three times 

 that amount. So that, as before stated, the profits 

 will depend on the cost of manure, and the distance 

 the same has to be carted, which will make a de- 

 cided difference in the net result. There are a few 

 special localities, near large cities, where manure can 

 be had ia abundance at low prices ; ia these places 



