92 Market Gardeiiiiig. 



$30.00; rent, $25.00; marketing, $25.00; making a 

 total of $260.00. 



If set at intervals of three and a half feet by two 

 feet, the number of plants that can be grown per acre 

 is six thousand. And it will be seen that they cannot 

 be grown at less cost than four and a half- cents per 

 head. The general average price is only six cents, 

 which would indicate a profit of only $100 per acre; 

 although, of course, if they should bring eight or ten 

 cents, as they often do, the profit would be handsomely 

 increased. 



It will be seen that we have charged all the twenty 

 cords of manure to the cabbage, while in fact the cab- 

 bages only take a share of it, and usually leave an 

 abundance for the crop that follows. So it becomes a 

 rather difficult matter to figure the exact cost by itself 

 of o^rowins: a field of cabbacre ; but after the second 

 crop is harvested it will be an easy affair to distribute 

 the expenses between the two, and thus one may get 

 at the matter very closely. 



If it is seen that the manure which has been applied 

 is not sufficient to carry out the crop, a dressing should 

 be given of half a ton of some good commercial fertil- 

 izer that is rich in potash. Wood-ashes, when obtain- 

 able, are excellent for this purpose. 



Although the list of varieties is large, market garden- 

 ers have but few that they regard as reliable. The 

 Jersey Wakefield is really the early market cabbage, 

 and is undoubtedly cultivated to a greater extent than 

 any other one variety for the first early crop. Although 

 this sort is a few davs later than the very earliest; it iu 



