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should be topped as soon as they begin to flower, 

 or they will not hold. Seed beds should not be 

 more than three feet broad, on account of cleaning 

 them ; cabbage plants should be set out in a second 

 bed before planting ; Swedish turnips should be set 

 out two feet apart between the rows; one ounce 

 of good cabbage or Swedish turnip seed will yield, 

 with care, 1,000 plants; full crops of onion seed 

 should be put down this month — a bottle of good 

 onion seed contains 10,000 seeds, and will yield, 

 with care, from 20,000 to 30,000 lbs. ; the beds 

 should be rich soil ; one bottle will plant, on an 

 average, half an acre. Cabbage and Swedish turnips 

 delight in green or fresh manure just out of the 

 stable or cow-shed, which should be dug into the 

 ground immediately before planting. Carrots should 

 be sown after cabbage, without manure, as they do 

 not like fresh manure, it makes them strong, and 

 causes the roots to spread. Oats should be sown in 

 spare land, as they will be off in time for full crops of 

 Irish potatoes in February, and will enrich the land. 

 This is a good month to sow tomatoes, an ounce of 

 seed wiU give at least 1,000 good plants, if the 

 seed is new. They puffer much when too thick 

 in the beds, so that the sooner they are trans- 

 planted, three or four inches apart, the better, as 



