Mineral Point Tribune

The question is of frequent occurrence, says Landreth's Rural Register, why cannot private families have head cabbage as early as the market gardeners? Simply because of imperfect culture and insufficient manuring. The market gardener feeds his cabbage crop without stint, and with the rankest food: frequently plows in the manure in the autumn, turns it up in the spring, and thoroughly incorporates it with the soil-plants early, cultivates deeply, not simply tickling the surface with the hand hoe; but uses the plow, and the horse-hoe; that cannot always be done in the comparatively small family garden, but the spade can be used, and that is the next best thing. Use it freely, dig deeply, and the result will surprise those who have heretofore relied upon the hoe alone.