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Another excellent remedy is to steep, at the time of 

 sowing the seed, ten or twelve pounds of tobacco- 

 stems in a large tub, adding three or four quarts of 

 soft-soap and some urine. When the plants are up 

 and any signs of the " fleas " appear, the bed may 

 be syringed with this tobacco solution, and the plants 

 dusted with some air-slacked lime. This should be 

 done early in the morning, while the dew is on the 

 plants. Two applications of this solution, followed 

 by the lime, I have never known to fail in driving 

 off these insects from the seed-bed. 



During the early stages of growth, the spaces 

 between the rows should be stirred frequently to 

 keep down the weeds. The plants will do best on 

 loose, mellow, fresh ground. One pound of fresh 

 seed will give thirty to forty thousand plants, with 

 careful treatment. Seed sown in good soil by the 

 1st of May will produce plants large enough to trans- 

 plant into the field by the 10th of June. 



Sowing a few seeds in the place where the Cab- 

 bages are to be grown, may do in the garden, but 

 not in field-culture. 



Late Cabbages, like the early varieties, require a 

 deep, rich, and well-disturbed soil, free from stag- 

 nant water. A heavy clay loam, well fertilized, will 

 bring a good crop of Fall Cabbages. On stubble- 

 ground, intended for Cabbages the following year, 

 we Fall-plough, throwing the ground into ten-feet 

 ridges. This space is manured in the Spring and 

 planted with Potatoes. Sometimes we adopt another 

 method. In the latter part of April the ground is 

 ploughed deeply, and during the month of Mayj 



