DISCUSSION. 107 



It may show itself before it comes to head, or not until after' 

 A yellow leaf will appear on one side of the plant, and upon in- 

 vestigation you will find that the stalk of the cabbage is affected, 

 and if left it will communicate itself to the head that is already 

 formed, and it will rot and decay. The cause of this is plant- 

 ing cabbage upon the same ground years in succession. Cab- 

 bage can only be raised as a crop only about three years upon 

 the same ground, and then you will notice what I have spoken 

 of, and you must remove your crop from that ground and keep 

 it off of the ground and not return with it for 3 or 4 years, when 

 you con again return to the same ground. 



In regard to celery there are a great many people that are 

 taking their first lesson in raising celery, and I want to say this, 

 that in celery culture there is a fascination about it, and you 

 are just as likely to prove successful the first year as the fifth, 

 but don't think that it follows that you will make a success the 

 second year. It is a peculiar thing, and all at once you find 

 you are entirely at sea with it. I used the self- bleaching variety; 

 planted it in single rows, banking each row by itself. This 

 year I have combined a new process with the old process, and 

 planted two rows together about a foot apart, and banked on 

 each side of it. This combination extends to at least four rows 

 together, the banking on each side. There is one thing that 

 must be taken into consideration in mass patches. For in- 

 stance, the new process, where it is set in distances from six 

 inches to a foot apart, it requires extremely rich ground 

 and a great deal of water. If you can furnish these requisites, 

 you may succeed, but you wiU be more likely to succeed with 

 single rows first. 



As I said before, everybody understands the process of cul- 

 tivating garden stuff, and it is not my province to go over that. 

 I think I have said all on the subject I wish to say. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Keyser: Your variety of early potatoes? 



Mr. Cass : I have yet to find any variety of early potatoes 

 earlier than the Early Ohio. I find early potatoes as early as 

 that, and of better quality. There is a new variety, it is un- 



