Cottage Economy Author:William Cobbett Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: sixty plants. So that to transplant an acre, you must sow about Jive rod of ground. The plants should be kept ycry clean ; and, by the last week in June, or firs... more »t in July you put them out. I have put them out (in England) at all times between 7th of June, and middle of August. The first is certainly earlier than I like; and the very finest I ever grew in England, and the finest I ever saw for a large piece, were transplanted on the 14th of July. But, one year with another, the last week in June is the best time.—For size of plants, manner of transplanting, intercultivation, preparing the land, and the rest, tee " Ycar'i Residence in America." No. VIII. On the converting of English Gran, and Grain Plant tut green, into Straw, for the Purpose of making Plat for Hats and Bonnets. Kensington, May 30, 1823. 208. THE foregoing Numbers have treated, chiefly, of the management of the affairs of a labourer's family, and more particularly of the mode of disposing of the money, earned by the labour of the family. The present Number will point out what I hope may become an advantageous kind of labour. All along I have proceeded upon the supposition, that the wife and children of the labourer be, as constantly as possible, employed in work of tome sort or other. The cutting, the bleaching, the sorting and the platting of straw, seem to be, of all employments, the best suited to the wives and children of country labourers ; and the discovery which I have made, as to the means of obtaining the necessary materials, will enable them to enter at once upon that employment. 209. Before I proceed to give my directions relative to the performance of this sort of labour, I shall give a sort of history of the discovery to which I have just alluded. 210. The practice of making Hats, B...« less