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seed should be put in with a seed drill in rows from eight to 

 ten inches apart and not too thick. This year the cabbages 

 were cut so as to leave three or four of the bottom leaves to 

 keep the heads from bruising in the car, the cabbage being in 

 much better condition at destination than to have the head 

 stripped bare as formerly. The yield per acre in this part of 

 the country is from five to ten tons. The average price per 

 ton for the last four years has been from $13 to $14. The 

 best land to grow this vegetable is heavy corn soil. 



' ' ' The principal points to which cabbages have been shipped 

 the past season from this part of the country are Denver, 

 Ogden. Kansas City, and different points in Minnesota, Mon- 

 tana, Oregon, Washington and Texas. Denver has been by 

 far the largest distributing point. Texas has also been a good 

 customer. The freight on cabbages in car-load lots has been 

 go cents per hundred pounds to Denver and Salt Lake City, 

 80 cents to Portland and ^i to Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas 

 City and St. Paul, and all points in Texas. The demand for 

 cabbages can be pretty accurately figured in November by 

 those who are posted in regard to the condition of the cab- 

 bage crop and the amount raised in the eastern states. The 

 principal point that California has to compete with in raising 

 fresh winter cabbages is Florida. Some years January and 

 February shipments bring the best price, while other years 

 April and May take the lead.' 



''The horticultural meetings of 1890 showed increased 

 attendance, a very gratifying degree of success in fighting in- 

 sect pests, and a general advance in all that pertains to the 

 various departments of the industry. The State Board of 

 Horticulture was created by an act of 1883, and consists of 

 nine members, appointed by the Governor. It appoints a 

 salaried secretary, upon whom a great deal of work necessa- 

 rily falls, an inspector of insect pests, clerks, etc. The total 

 appropriation that it has for the fiscal year ending June 

 30th, i8gi, is ^12,500. Twenty-one counties have boards of 

 'county horticultural commissioners,' each with a salaried 

 secretary, and these boards meet in a yearly convention. B. 

 M. LeLong, the Secretary of the State Board, reports that 

 1,128 volumes of horticultural books are in the library. The 

 reports of the Board are considered very valuable abroad and 

 at home. They are large and expensively illustrated volumes, 



