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which were stubbed. After this it was sloughed in winter two or three times, and in the beginning of May planted in rows three feet asunder, the plants two feet from each other; they were only hand hoed but this was repeated three or four times. They were first used at Candlemas for some fat Oxen who eat them heartily; they were Scotch Cabbage.

In 1765. two Acres of good loamy Soil were planted, which had carried Oats the former Season, it was followed during the Winter; The Seed was sown in March, and planted out of the Seed bed on the 18th. and 19th. of June in rows at the same distance as the former experiment. They were twice horse hoed with a Common plough and the rows hand hoed as of ten. This Crop was used between Christmas and Candlemas, and chiefly in deep Snow. Eighteen Oxen fatting on Turnips were put to these Cabbages on account of the Snow, they eat them better than the Turnips. On which some Cabbages were buried in the feeding-trough under an heap of Turnips; the Oxen turned the Turnips aside without biting one, and seized the Cabbages with the utmost greediness. In spring Barley was sown, the part where the Cabbages had been planted was freer from Weeds than where the Turnips had grown and yielded eight bushels per Acre more.

The Same year on half an Acre of clay land Summer and Winter followed, Cabbages were planted with a plough. About Midsummer a furrow was drawn, the plants laid in, and covered by the ridge of another furrow; then the land was ploughed in the common manner, untill the farrow was four feet distance from the catchword row /catchword