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spring- as soon as the weeds start this ground is gone over with a 

 disk-harrow to destroy the WTeds and level off the surface. This 

 practice is continued every ten days or two weeks, until the tini' 

 of planting, which is generally from the 15th of June to the ist of 

 July. By this time the final fitting of the soil should be well done, 

 every vestige of weed life destroyed before setting the plants, as 

 this will mean so much less labor afterwards in cultivation. 



About 12,000 plants are set to the acre, the rows being three 

 feet apart and the plants eighteen inches apart in the row. They 

 are set with the cabbage planter, about three acres being considered 

 a g'ood day's work. If the land is not too weedy, with three cultiva- 

 tions and three hoeings you will be able to lay the crop by. 



.As to the future of this industr^' in this locality, it is safe to 



street .scene at Union (4rove, ^yi.s., in cabbage shipping; seiison. 



say that the farmers will continue to grow a good acreage, but will 

 not go in on as extensive a scale as they have the past season and 

 thus will no doubt be able to realize better prices also for the crop. 



One of the best features of this crop is the remarkable way in 

 which foul weeds, such as quack-grass and Canada thistles, are en- 

 tirely killed out of the soil where good cultivation is given. This 

 is due largely to the fact that early and late cultivation gives these 

 persistent weeds little chance to grow. 



A rough estimate of this year's crop for our locality would be 

 about 5,000 acres, with an average yield of ten tons to the acre, 

 making a total of 50,000 tons, or, at 20 tons to the car, 2,500 car- 

 loads. This has net the grower on an average $5 a ton, or $250,000 

 for the entire crop. 



