No. 6. 



DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 



641 



The plants of these strains were quite uniform and desirable. On the 

 other hand, four strains weie very irregular, leafy and matured few 

 if any remarkable heads. The slide shows these poor strains as well 

 as the strains that matured early. 



The work of 1908 showed that the question of strains was worthy 

 of investigation. The next year a new lot of seed was secured of the 

 varieties Jersey Wakefield, Charleston Wakefield, ICarly Spring and 

 Early Summer, as well as several late varieties. 



Of the thirty-one strains secured at this time only one is as poor 

 as the four previously mentioned of the test secured the year pre- 

 vious. The slide whicli follows shows a typical plant of this strain, 

 v.hile the next slide shows an excellent plant of the Jersey Wake- 

 field vaiietv. 



This 3'ear at the time of making the first cutting the heads were 

 piled at the end of the row of each strain and photographed. The 

 series of slides which follow shows the variation in earliness of the 

 respective strains. The slide showing this table of yields is inter- 

 esting. 



TABLE I. — Hai'vesting Record of Jersey Wakefield. 



In this table we have compiled the yield per acre of each strain 

 for the first as well as the total cutting. From it we see that the 

 yield per acie at the first cutting varies from .20 to 4.36 tons. 

 At the time tliis cutting was made the market price of cabbage was 

 |oO a ton. Thus in tlie one case the money value Avas |14.50 and 

 in the other case -^IMS. This ditference will i-eadily be appreciated 

 41—6—1911 



