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is quite a difference in the keeping qualities of the different 

 varieties. If late varieties are sown too early, they will 



Fig. 79. Cabbage pitted for winter. 



not keep well; and if early varieties are sown late so as to 

 be in good keeping condition when harvested, they often 

 keep very well. 



In order to store cabbages successfully, they must be 

 kept cold and moist but never allowed to get warm or 

 wet. Providing the cabbage is in good condition for 

 storing, it will generally keep until spring if the heads 

 are set together, in a trench, roots up, and covered with 

 from six inches to a foot of soil and mulch enough to pre- 

 vent hard freezing. If they are frozen while buried and 

 are thawed out in the ground, they are seldom seriously 

 injured. In sections of severe winters, however, a better 



Fig. 80. Seed cabbage pitted for winter. 



plan is to keep them in a cold, damp cellar, stored in bins 

 about four feet wide so as to allow a circulation of air 



