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Ashes For Cabbages

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
April
Year
1863
Copyright
Public Domain
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No manure that can be applled to tlie cobbage is more salutary in its oifeets han wood ashes. Tho worm whieh so frequently and fatally infesta the roots of tiis vegetable, is often expelled by liberal and oft repeated applications of this artielo. If coiumon salt be mixed with it say four quarts ofsaltto one bushel of aslies - and a small quantity of uriue or wash frota the barn-yard, be sprinklod frequently over and around the plants, the growth of the erop will be greatly promotad by it. Cabbages require frequent hoeing. Ttte operation ali.mld be performed eitlier in the moTiHBg or evening, and if the plants are infested with vormin, sprinkle the leales with ashes while the dew is on them ; if there is no dew, sprinkle them with diluted urine or weak soapsuds. - Thia will causo the aslies to adhere to tho ífeaves, and furnish sonw protection, at least against all attacks. The heads may remain out til! snow f'alls, and the small, imperfeetly devcloped ones fed to the eattle. The ñeld cultivation of this vegetable excites attontion near large citie3, and favorable reports have been given iu regard to the profit. The cabbage makes an excellent food for domestic auimals,and the quantity which may be grown psr acre is really astonishing. Some care must be observed, however, in feeding them to milch cows; as a fúll feed of them is apt tt flavor the milk.

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Old News
Michigan Argus