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Truckers who do not care to cut their own disks may purchase 

 them from Hirsch Brothers, Middle Village, L. I., New York, 

 A. B. Cowles, 25 S. Water St., Rochester, N. Y., and Smith Brothers, 

 Green Bay, Wisconsin. In large trucking sections there are doubt- 

 less agencies who keep these protectors in stock. 



RECOMMENDATIONS. 



In the employment of tar pads as a means of protecting early 

 cabbage, truckers should arrange to transplant seedlings of good 

 size with rather long stems. 



Disks cannot be satisfac- 

 torily adjusted about small 

 plants, for in setting such 

 seedlings it is necessary to 

 place them low in the soil 

 so that only the leaves 

 protrude. Moreover, while 

 transplanting it is well to 

 avoid placing the seedling 

 in a depression. This fre- 

 quently occurs when the work 

 of setting is done by hand, 

 for in making a hole for the 

 roots more earth is removed 

 than is necessary, so that 

 after the operation is com- 

 pleted the plant occupies the 

 center of a shallow basin. 

 Tar pads placed about cab- 

 bages that have been set in 

 such situations are liable to 

 become covered with soil 

 during the first shower, which 

 reduces their efficiency. 



Some growers set their 

 cabbage plants on a slight 

 ridge. This practice is an 

 advantage where tar pads are used, as the protectors are not liable 

 to become covered with soil. 



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Fig. 23. — Tar Pads Properly Adjusted 

 About Cabbages. 



