_First Year._--Sowed seed in light sandy soil without manure. Weak
plants, beaten down by rain, lost.
_Second Year._--Put out an acre and a half of fine plants: large part
turned out poorly. Part of the land was low, sour, and wet, and all
meagrely fertilized. Crop sold in Jacksonville for two hundred and fifty
dollars.
_Third Year._--Three acres better, but still inadequately manured, and
half ruined by the Christmas frost: brought about eight hundred dollars.
_Fourth Year_ (1871-72.)--Two acres better manured; planted in low land,
on ridges five feet apart: returned six hundred dollars. In favorable
seasons, with good culture, an acre of cabbages should yield a gross
return of five hundred dollars, of which three hundred would be clear
profit.