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then cover this with a cultivator with two cover- 

 ing teeth in front and with a coverer and wheel 

 behind, leaving a ridge a little above the level. 

 The rows should be two feet and a half apart, and 

 the plants should be set eighteen inches in the 

 row, which admits of about eleven thousand five 

 hundred plants to the acre. 



INSECTS. 



In raising early cabbage there is more trouble 

 with insects than with late cabbages, as their 

 growth is made at the season of the year when all 

 kinds of insects come forth. The maggot is very 

 plenty in some soils, and destroys some plants by 

 eating the bark from the stem below ground. The 

 best remedy for them is to put a spoonful of 

 muriate of potash in a quart of water, and apply a 

 gill of the solution around the stem of each plant. 

 There is another remedy which is just as effectual, 

 but which takes more time to apply, and that is 

 a small handful of wood ashes put down around 

 each stem. These are sure remedies if applied at 

 the proper time, that is, before they have destroyed 

 the bark and roots of the plant. Cut worms are 

 oftentimes very troublesome with some, but if the 

 land has been thoroughly plowed in the fall, and all 

 the green weeds and grass killed and no vegetable 

 manure is applied, there will be little or no trouble 

 with them. A strip of tin about four inches wide 

 and ten inches long, bent together and shoved 

 down around each plant, will prevent all cut 



