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On Green or Fodder Crops. 
cut too low the plants will quickly sprout again, so that a good second crop 
may be obtained to feed off on the land with sheep in September. For the 
flock of Oxfordshire rams which I breed for sale annually, I find cabbage 
excellent food, which they have in alternation with vetches and mangold- 
wurzel all througli the summer. "We use these summer cabbages, however, 
for cattle as well as for sheep. Wheat grows very kindly alter this crop, and 
I grow it on land which comes into rotation before wheat as seeds will not 
hit well in the succeeding crop after the cabbages." 
Mr. Wm. Trethewy, of Tregoose, Grampound Road, Cornwall, 
states that he has been in the habit of growing the Drumhead 
variety of cabbage for upwards of thirty years, adding : — 
" I had the seed originally from Mr. Elliott, Landulph, in this county, and 
he had the sort for some years before. I have tried other kinds for winter 
feed, but without finding any nearly so useful. They require to be well 
manured, and will keep, except in very severe winters, imtil the end of 
March or early in April. They are exceedingly valuable either for milch 
cows, or ewes and lambs. The seed should be sown in August, and the 
planting out of the young cabbages at from 2^ to 3 feet apart may be effected 
the early part of the ensuing June. 1 have seen other varieties that grow 
larger, but they will not stand severe weather, and require to be consumed as 
soon as they are ripe." 
Sir Thomas Acland says : — 
" Experience has taught me the great value of a few acres of well-manured 
cabbage in the autumn, when the quality of the grass is falling oflf. Cabbages 
repay amply a liberal outlay of dung assisted by Peruvian guano. For the 
last ten years 1 have generally had 5 acres on my farm, and throughout 
autumn, after grass gi ts less'rich, a couple of loads per day are spread on the 
pastures for the cattle. The sheep are folded to consume on the land the 
portion not taken away, and by adopting this course there is no soil 
exhaustion." 
Several of Sir Thomas Acland's tenants are following his 
example in cabbage growing by seeing the good results which 
follow the growth of the crop on his home farm of Killerton. 
Mr, W. Stevens, of Broadclyst, says : — 
" Cabbages are generally liked with us, and found to be very useful for all 
kinds of cattle and sheep." 
Mr. J. R. Evans, of Benham Grange, Newbury, affords con- 
vincing testimony how valuable a crop may become in a season 
of scarcity for turnips. He states : 
" On laud in good condition cabbage will no doubt grow more food per 
acre than aiij^ other green cro]). In the year 1870 — a very dry season indeed 
in our district — 1 was afraid 1 should not get any swedes or tiuiiips, in conse- 
quence of the drought. J had two small fields, one 4 acres and the other 
3 acres, sandy loam in good heart; we had dunged the ground and worked it] 
ready for roots. One of the Newbury market-gardeners olTered to come over 
and jilant the tv/o fields witli Ikitersca cabbages, the large sort, at 5s. per 1000, 
to include plants and jilanting, so I agreed to have it done, lie put in about 
7000 ])cr acre, commencing on Whit Monday, 1870, in intensely hot dry weather. 
1 got two or three water carts, and several women with buckets, and filled the 
