Cabbages — Cost of a Crop. 91 



Dwarf Improved is very tender and is distinguished 

 for fine flavor ; it is the best kind for general use. 



Cabbage {Brassica oleracea capitata) is one of the 

 most important and one of the best paying crops. 



Lettuce can be set between the cabbage rows, to be 

 cut off before the growth of the main crop will inter- 

 fere with it. In this manner three crops may be grown 

 each season ; which will make the land pay as well as 

 can be done by almost any other system of cropping. 



As cabbages require a large amount of lime, they 

 should not be grown on the same ground oftener than 

 once in three years, unless a special application of 

 lime is made. This is often done, and especially in 

 the vicinity of New York City ; but, where practicable, 

 it is better to avoid devoting the ground continuously 

 to crops of the cabbage family. And it is also better 

 to avoid putting in cabbages to follow any shallow- 

 feeding crop (like corn, for instance) as they collect 

 the greater part of their nourishment near the surface, 

 and are moreover rank feeders ; so that it is well to 

 let them follow and be followed by some deep-rooted 

 crop. 



On land already in good tillable condition, an appli- 

 cation of twenty cords of manure per acre is about 

 what will be required. We prefer well decomposed 

 horse manure to any other. This manure may cost 

 about $8.00 per cord, delivered on the place. 



The applying would cost about $6.00 ; ploughing, 

 $2.00 ; marking, or furrowing, $2.00 ; setting, or trans- 

 planting, $5.00 ; hoeing, $5.00 (which would include 

 cultivating") ; plants (6.000 at $5.00 per thousand), 



