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convenient. To economize space it will be well to 

 break off the outer leaves before the plants are thus 

 stacked with the heads downward. If cabbage freeze 

 when thus stored, no serious harm will follow. While 

 thus frozen, cabbage should never be fed to any kind 

 of live stock, not even swine. And it should be 

 remembered that alternate freezing and thawing are 

 greatly injurious to this plant. 



Cabbage may be kept even more surely and 

 probably more simply in some climates, by lifting 

 them with the potato fork and standing them in a 

 double or treble line, with the root upward and with 

 all or nearly all the leaves retained. The cabbages 

 are brought to a ridge by adding a third row when 

 there are but two rows on the ground, or by adding 

 two rows and then another when there are three 

 rows on the foundation. They are then covered as 

 described above. And sometimes a plow furrow 

 may be turned toward the cabbage on either side 

 with manifest advantage. 



