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occurs to prevent their attaining full 
growth we think the old patch will reach 
that, this year. 
In September, when Mr. B. has harvested 
his onions and cabbages, he seeds his 
ground thickly with rye. As soon as the 
ground wi?l do to work in spring he plows 
under the rye (which, although short is 
very thick), harrows it down well and then 
spreads on his fertilizers. He takes Peru¬ 
vian guano, costing .$66 per ton; ground 
bone costing $33 per ton, and superphos¬ 
phate, costing $32 per ton and mixes them 
carefully together on barn floor. Then, 
with a broadcast plaster-sower sows the 
mixture upon the onion ground, at the 
rate of a ton, or more, per acre. He then 
harrows the ground very fine, and drills in 
the seed at the rate of four pounds per 
acre. He works out his onions with the 
Gem Cultivator, which he considers a very 
good one. 
FIFTEEN ACRES OF CABBAGES. 
As alreadv intimated. Mr. Birch is an ex- 
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tensive grower of cabbages. He has in 
all, this year, early, medium, and late me¬ 
dium, 15 acres; does not raise late cab¬ 
bage because he thinks they do not pay as 
well. As before said, he sows'his cabbage 
ground in September, after his latest cab¬ 
bage are cut, to rye. He evidently believes 
in the principle, recently contended for by 
the Rural Editor, that when decaying veg¬ 
etation is fermenting in the soil, if we 
would preserve the precious ammonia gen¬ 
erated we must have living, active roots 
growing to absorb it and assimilate it in 
organic forms. During the winter he 
makes from his own animals, and hauls 
from Fairport what manure he can, which 
he spreads upon the cabbage land. As soon 
as it will answer in spring the ground is 
plowed and rye and manure carefully 
turned under and harrowed down. 
In January he sows his cabbage seed in 
a Green-house, heated by a flue, and when 
of suitable size transplants them into boxes. 
He sows for early cabbage the Jersey 
Wakefield, for medium Henderson's Early 
Summer, and for late medium Fottler’s Im¬ 
proved Brunswick. 
About the middle of April, after sowing 
from one ton to one and tons to the acre 
of the same mixed fer. ilizers, mentioned as 
being sowed upon the onion ground, and 
well dragging them in, he commences 
transplanting his cabbage to the open 
ground. He first transplants' his Jersey 
Wakefield on his warmest ground, which 
lias a sout’neastern exposure; and then in 
succession the la,ter varieties. The rows 
are three feet apart, and the Wakefield 
are about .8 inches apart in the row, the 
Early Summer two feet, and the Improved 
Brunswick three feet, which admits culti¬ 
vation both ways for the-latter. 
He begins to cut the Wakefields for 
market about the middle of June and they 
bring from $500 to $600 per acre. He 
began to market the Early Summer this 
year about the 8tli of July. They have- 
quite a large, flat head, but do not am ount 
to as large a sum per acre as the Wake¬ 
fields, because he does not sell as many 
heads per acre. Had, that day, shipped to- 
Buffalo a car load for $6 per hundred, de¬ 
livered in the car at Fairport station. He 
cut the first of liis Fottler's Improved, 
Brunswick the 14th of August. We looked, 
over the plantation; they are a splendid, 
cabbage, large, round, flat, solid; there 
were heads that would weigh from 12 to- 
15 pounds each. He does not calculate- 
upon the later varieties bringing in much 
over $200 per acre. He has 27 acres in 
this home farm, including orchard, garden 
and yards occupied by the buildings, and 
they altogether yield an income of $200 
per acre, or a gross income of $5,400. He 
leased the place for five years at $600 per 
annum, but a year ago he purchased it for 
$6,500, or a little more than $240 per acre.. 
The interest on the cost is $390, not quite 
two-thirds the rent he paid. 
He employs three men steadily through 
the season, and enough occasionally, by 
the day to make another one steadily. 
Among the Jersey Wakefield cabbage he 
transplants tomatoes, which occupy the 
ground when the cabbage are removed 
and makes a good second crop. Has a va¬ 
riety called “Essex Early Hybrid” which 
are large, round, smooth, and of the color 
of the Acme, but not inclined to rot, like 
that variety. 
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