high; and, by the fall, you will have really clean ground, and not poor ground. 118. There is the ground then, ready. About the 26th of August, but not earlier, prepare a rod of your ground, and put some manure in it (for some you must have), and sow one half of it with Early York Cabbage Seed, and the other half with Sugar Loaf Cabbage Seed, both of the true sort, in little drills at 8 inches apart, and the seeds thin in the drill. If the plants come up at twe inches apart (and they should be thinned if thicker), you will have a plenty. As soon as fairly out of ground, hoe the ground nicely, and pretty deeply, and again in a few days. When the plants have six leaves, which will be very soon, dig up, make fine, and manure another rod or two, and prick out the plants, 4000 of each in rows at eight inches apart and 3 inches in the row. Hoe the ground between them often, and they will grow fast and be straight and strong. I suppose that these beds for plants take 4 rods of your ground. Early in November, or, as the weather may serve, a little earlier or later, lay some manure (of which I shall say more hereafter) between the ridges, in the other 36 rods, .and turn the ridges over on this manure, and then transplant your plants on the ridges at 15 inches apart. Here they will stand the winter; and you must see that the slugs do not eat them. If any plants fail, you have plenty in the bed where you prick them out; for your 36 rods will not require more than 4000 plants. If the winter be very hard, and bad for plants, you cannot cover 36 rods; but you may the bed where the rest of your plants are. A little litter, or straw, or dead grass, or fern, laid along between the rows and the plants, not to cover the leaves, will preserve them completely. When people complain of all their plants being" cut off," they have, in fact, nothing to complain of but their own extreme carelessness. If I had a gardener who complained of all his plants being cut off I should cut him off pretty quickly. If those in the 36 rods fail, or fail in part, fill up their places, later in the winter, by plants from the bed. 119. If you find the ground dry at top during the winter, hoe it, and particularly near the plants, and rout out all slugs and insects. And, when March comes, and the ground is dry, hoe deep and well, and earth the plants up close to the lower leaves. As soon as the plants begin to grow, dig the ground with a spade clean and well, and let the spade go as near to the plants as you can without actually dicplacing the plants. Give them another digging in a month; and, if weeds come in the mean-while, hoe, and let not one live a week. “Oh ! what a deal of work!" Well! but, it is for yourself; and besides, it is not all to be done in a day; and we shall by-and-by see what it is altogether. 120. By the first of June; I speak of the South of England, and there is also some difference in seasons and soils; but, generally speaking, by the first of June you will have turned-in cabbages; and soon you will have the Early Yorks solid. And by the first of June you may get your cow, one that is about to calve, or that has just calved, and at this time such a cow as you will want will not, thank God, cost above five pounds. 121. I shall speak of the place to keep her in and of the manure and litter, by-and-by. At present I confine myself to her mere food. The 36 rods, if the cabbages all stood till they got solid, would give her food for 200 days at 80 pounds weight per day, which is more than she would eat. But, you must use some at first, that are not solid; and, then, some of them will split before you can use them. But, you will have pigs to help off with them, and to gnaw the heads of the stumps. Some of the sugar-loaves may have been planted out in the spring; and thus these 36 rods will get you along to some time in September. 122. Now, mind, in March, and again in April, sow more Early Yorks and get them to be fine stout plants, as you did those in the fall. Dig up the ground and manure it, and, as fast as you cut cabbages, plant cabbages; and in the same manner and with the same cultivation as before. Your last planting will be about the middle of August, with stout plants, and these will serve you into the month of November. 123. Now we have to provide from December to May inclusive ; and that, too, out of this same piece of ground. In November there must be, arrived at perfection, 3000 turnip plants. These, without the greens, must weigh, on an average, 5 pounds, and this, at 80 pounds a day, will keep the cow 187 days; and there are but 182 days in these six months. The greens will have helped out the latest cabbages to carry you through November; and, perhaps into December. But, for these six months you must depend on nothing but the Swedish turnips. 124. And now how are these to be had upon the same ground that bears the cabbages? That we are now going to see. When you plant out your cabbages at the out-set, put first a row of Early Yorks, then a row of Sugar-loafs, and so on throughout the piece. Of course, as you are to use the Early Yorks first you will cut every other row; and the Early Yorks that you are to plant i summer will go into the intervals. By-and-by the SugarLoaves are cut away, and in their place will come Swedish turnips, you digging and manuring the ground as in the case of the cabbages; and, at last, you will find about 16 rods where you will have found it too late, and unnecessary besides, to plant any second crop of cabbages. Here the Swedish Turnips will stand in rows at 2 feet apart (and always a foot apart in the row ;) and thus you will have three thousand turnips; and, if these do not weight 5 pounds each on an average, the fault must be in the seed or in the management. 125. The Swedish Turnips are raised in this manner. You will bear in mind the four rods of ground, in which you have sowed and pricked out your cabbage plants. The plants that will be left there will, in April, serve you for greens, if you ever eat any, though bread and bacon are very good without greens, and rather better than with. At any rate, the pig, which has strong powers of digestion, will consume this herbage. In a part of these four rods you will, in March and April, as before directed, have sown and raised your Early Yorks for the summer planting. Now, in the last week of May prepare a quarter of a rod of this ground, and sow it, precisely as directed for the Cabbage-seed, with Swedish turnip-seed and, sow a quarter of a rod every three days, till you have sowed two rods. If the fly appear, cover the rows over in the day time with cabbage leaves, and take the leaves off at night; hoe well between the plants; and, when they are safe from the fly, thin them to four inches apart in the row. The two rods will give you nearly five thousand plants, which is 2,000 more than you will want. From this bed you draw your plants to transplant iu the ground where the cabbages have stood, as before directed. You should transplant none much before the middle of July, and not much later than the middle of August. In the 2 rods, whence you take your turnip plants, you may leave plants to come to perfection, at 2 feet distances each way; and this will give you over and above, 840 pounds weight of turnips. For the other two rods will be ground enough for you to sow your cabbage plants in at the end of August, as directed for last year. 126. I should now proceed to speak of the manner of harvesting, preserving, and using the crops; of the manner of feeding the cow; of the shed for her; of the managing of the manure, and several other less important things; but, these, for want of room here, must be reserved for the beginning of my next Number. After, therefore, observing that the Turnip plants must be transplanted in the same way that Cabbage plants are ; and that both ought to be transplanted in dry weather and in ground just fresh digged, I shall close this Number with the notice of two points which I am most anxious to impress upon the mind of every reader. 127. The first is, whether these crops give an ill taste to milk and butter. It is very certain, that the taste and smell of certain sorts of cattle-food will do this for, in some parts of America, where the wild garlick, of which the cows are very fond, and which, like other bulbous rooted plants, springs before the grass, not only the milk and butter have a strong taste of garlick, but even the veal, when the calves suck milk from such sources. None can be more common expressions, than, in Philadelphia market, are those of Garlicky Butter and Garlicky Veal. I have distinctly tasted the Whiskey in |