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through them. For commercial purposes, it is a good 

 plan to build store houses half in and half out of the ground. 

 In a small way they may be kept by burying the heads 

 in sand in a cellar, or a few cabbages for home use may 

 be heeled in by the roots in the cellar; but it should be 

 borne in mind that decaying cabbage is dangerous material 

 to have under a dwelling house, and it should not be per- 

 mitted under any circumstances. In storing cabbage 

 the loose, outside leaves should be removed and the stumps 

 always left on, except when they are to be stored in bins. 

 Cabbage seed is a somewhat difficult crop to raise in 

 this (Minnesota) section, the trouble being in keeping 

 the- plants over winter. It may be done, however, if 

 care is used. For this purpose the heads should not be 

 permitted to get very hard; they should be gathered 

 before the stumps have been frozen and be set close to- 

 gether, heads up, in a trench and covered with about a 

 foot of soil and mulching enough to prevent severe freezing. 

 Cabbage seed may be raised from the stumps after the 

 heads are cut off, and this is a very simple matter, as the 

 stumps can be buried like turnips or even kept in bins, 

 providing they are covered with earth and kept cold; 

 but such seed is not desirable, as the evidence seems to 

 show that there is a tendency to increase the length of 

 the stump at the expense of the head under such treat- 

 ment. It is generally agreed among our best seed growers 

 that cabbage seed should be saved from the terminal buds 

 of the stem, which are in the cabbage head. Providing 

 the seed cabbages are successfully wintered over, they 

 should then be planted about the 1st of May about three 

 feet apart in deep furrows four feet apart. Sometimes 

 the seed stalk cannot burst through the head leaves, 

 and it is a good plan where the outer leaves are very thick 



