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On Green or Fodder Crops. 
cabbage growing bj entertaining the notion that the crop would 
be sure to make extensive demands either on their home-made 
manure heaps or their pockets. Under such circumstances it 
may be well to state that the formula by M. Georges Ville for 
beetroots, cabbages, and carrots alike amounts to 4Z. 9a'. 2d., being 
for what he terms his normal manure No. 2, the ingredients 
of which with their prices are given as follows : — 
lbs. £ s. d. 
352 .. .. 0 15 4 
176 .. .. 1 18 4 
2G4 .. .. 1 13 7 
2C4 .... 0 1 31 
Total .. .. 1056 .... 4 9 2 
The following testimony to the value of cabbage as a field 
crop has been kindly furnished me specially for this paper by 
gentlemen who have had considerable experience on this 
subject. 
Mr. George Street, of Maulden, Ampthill, says : — 
" Cabbages I have grown for many years, and would on no account be 
witliont them. My imctice is to prepare a seed-bed, and sow the seed, 
' Enfield Market,' about the first and second weeks in August. Soon alter 
harvest a ])iece of f dlow is selected, forked over for digging out the couch, a 
good dressing of manure apjilied, plouiihed a good dejith, harrowed, niarked out 
with rows or drills about 20 inches ai art, and in Octol'er or tlie beginning of 
Noveuiber the plants will be ready for setting out, for which I pay 8s. per 
acre, pulling the plants included. 1 usually grow 4 or 5 acres, say 5 per cent, 
of tiie fallow crop These produce an iuimense quantity of valuable food. A 
load a day drawn otf and thrown about for the lambs will keep ihem right, 
and be found of i;reat vaiue at a critical time of the yenr. If preferred, the 
lamb- can be folded on tlie lahbage at night, and have a run in the day time. 
If the foruier phm be adopted, tiie .■second cro]i or sprouts .should be foMed 
an'i e iien off with cake or corn. Cabl^ages may be iiiven to all kinds of stock 
With advantage. I found them invaluable diuin.; the drought last summer, 
as (hemg too heavily stocked) my sheep and cattle would have been starved 
witiio .t their aid." 
Calcic superphosphate 
Potassic nitrate 
Kodic nitrate .. 
Calcic sulphate 
Mr. .John Turner, of The Grange, Ulceby, Lincolnshire, 
says :— 
" Cabbages are a most valual'lc crop, and where land is suitable ou<;ht to 
be uiore extensively cultivaie<l. 1 j^row two kinds, the I^arly Enfield for 
sunuuer u>c, and ilie Stotcli Drumhead for winter. My Eutield seed I sow 
in be :s on the 5tli of Angus'. I draw the best plants out and i)lant theiu 
into t' e land intended to jiroduce a crop at the latter part of September or in 
Ot io' er. The rest rt ruain in ilie bcils, and are not planted out till sj ring. 
The ])aration of the land lor the auumm planting is, after peiftct working 
ami the .-pleading oi a g<.K)'l sui)ply ol f irmyard-manuic, to plou.;h the latter 
under on the level, and after ha'rowin and rolling tlie suifice down, to make 
si gi t lurrows witli the ridge plouiih tlu' distance the rows arc required to be 
ap It. The cabbages are then plante i about 20 inches ajiart in the furrow. 
I hnd for standing the winter m the fields that they are much better in a 
