CABBAGE 201 



roots a little, the growth is checked and the heads may be 

 kept from spoiling for a week or more. 



Late cabbage is a term generally given to cabbage 

 grown from seed sown in the open ground. It may be 

 ready for use in September or in the late autumn and be 

 kept all winter. 



Soil. Any land that will produce a good crop of corn 

 is in good condition for late cabbage, but the richer the 

 land the better the chances of success. Less manure is 

 required for late than for early cabbage. Late cabbage 

 is generally raised by sowing the seed in hills, or by sowing 

 it in a seed bed and setting the plants in the field when of 

 sufficient size. Each of these methods has its advan- 

 tages and will be referred to separately farther on. 



Sowing Cabbage Seed. Late cabbage may be raised 

 by sowing the seed in a seed bed in the spring, in rows 

 twelve inches apart, and when the plants are large enough 

 transplanting them to the field where they are to be grown. 

 This is the common way of growing cabbage. Its advan- 

 tages are that the plants may be set out on land that 

 has grown some early crop, as peas, or on sod land after 

 cutting the hay. It also insures having the plants all 

 together in a small space, where they can be easily culti- 

 vated and guarded when they are young and most liable 

 to serious injury from cut- worms, flea beetles, and other 

 insects and from dry weather. It has the disadvantage 

 of requiring the plants to be moved during the dry weather 

 of early summer, when they are very likely to fail from 

 lack of water in the soil. 



Sowing the seed of cabbage in the field where the 

 plants are to mature and then thinning out to one plant 

 to a hill, has the advantage of not requiring the trans- 

 planting of the plants during dry weather, and as the 



