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after April for good heads. By forcing, the plants 

 may be headed in the frames in winter. More 

 heat and protection are needed for this than in 

 merely keeping over the plants. ^Yhen the plants 

 are approaching full size a light dressing of nitrate 

 of soda raked into the soil is used to push them 

 along and check any tendency to button. Lettuce 

 is usually grown in the frames between the plants 

 while small. 



Dr. A. Oemler,* of Savannah, Georgia, says: 

 " If this most delicate and most valuable member 

 of the Brassica family, would ' carry ' more safely 

 at locations suitable for its cultivation, it would be 

 one of the most important crops for the truck 

 farmer. Although so situated, I have abandoned 

 its culture, notwithstanding I have netted as high 

 as 824.75 in New York per barrel for it, and the 

 heads or ' curds ' have sold at a gross average of 

 thirty- seven cents each. Sometimes, however, it 

 would continue to arrive in such bad order as not 

 to be worth shipping. For the past two years its 

 culture for the Northern market has been mainly 

 confined to Florida. Coming so much earlier 

 there, it is not exposed to heating in transit. The 



*Dr. Oemler is the author of an excellent work 

 entitled "Truck Farming in the South." His farm is 

 on Wilmington Island, in the mouth of the Savannah 

 River. 



