Cultivation of Carrots and Cabbages. 
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As methodical arrangement in matters of this kind not only 
produces results agreeable to the eye, but materially diminishes 
the cost of labour, I extract from my ' Handy Book for Young 
Farmers ' our practice to insure accuracy in setting out the plants 
to facilitate hoeing, 6cc. 
" This is acconiplished bj' the use of a line attached to a stick just 3 feet 
long, at each end of the line, which is laid across the ridges. As cacli row of 
plants has been set, the workers at each end of the line move it forward just 
the length of the stick to which it is attached. The jilants should be loosened 
in theii seed-bed before drawing by a small hand-tbrk, to prevent damage to 
the 3'oung root by pulling them from the firm ground, stowed in baskets by 
bo3's or girls, and carried to the ground, and laid down by them on the rid2;es 
just before the planters. The planting may be done by women, each of whom 
should be furnished with a trowel to open the ground freely on setting the 
plants. This is material when the land is moist, as it should be for the pur- 
pose, as the roots then strike out freely ; the common setting pin being turned 
rouud forms a puddled hole, which obstructs the striking out of the young 
roots. The two outside setters may be men to manage the line. We liave 
set out in this way 10,410 plants on upwards of two acres of ground between 
the hours of 8 and 12 in the morning, by four men, 6 women, and 2 boj's to 
place the plants." 
The purpose to which, more especially, we devote the crop of 
cabbage is to feed the wether lambs after removing them from 
the young clovers at the end of October, and before they get on 
the swedes at mid-winter. We fold the lambs on the cabbaorcs 
as they stand, without any cutting ; they eat up not only the 
cabbage without any waste, but make their way into the stems. 
They are most useful for all stock during the autumn months, 
when clovers are being ploughed up and the grass grounds are 
dried up. 
Cirencester, 1st October, 1862. 
X\ . — Experiments on Transpl anting Mangold. By W. Gurdon. 
In the spring of 1858 I was thus led to make an experiment in 
transplanting mangold wurtzel. In order to test the goodness of 
some yellow globe-seed, before sowing the bulk, I had ordered 
some to be placed in a box, with 4 or 5 inches of earth, and 
raised in a striking-house. When I offered tliis boxful of plants 
to a small farmer in the parish he declined them, saying that 
they were useless, as transplanted mangold were always of hs.A 
quality ; to use his own expression, " they were rooty and 
J<^ngy." 
1^ occurred to me, from having some experience of root pruning 
