298 THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



they are of good size. This dusting should be done when the 

 dew is on. I have had a hundred thousand plants destroyed in 

 a day by these pests. 



Cabbage seed may be sown with the seed drill, and one ounce 

 of seed allowed for each three thousand plants wanted. The 

 plants may be grown in rows eighteen inches apart, and enough 

 left in every other row to occupy the land and make a crop. 

 The Marblehead Mammoth is said to do much better when grown 

 from the seed where it is to stand, than when transplanted. 

 Cabbages do best on heavily manured land, but thorough culture 

 will, to some extent, make up for lack of manure. The summer 

 varieties, sown late, will often head better on land that is mod- 

 erately rich, than the large late varieties. Joseph Harris says, 

 in speaking of the cabbage worm : " On my own farm I do noth- 

 ing to check the ravages of the cabbage worm but to dust the 

 plants when the dew is on with a mixture of plaster and super- 

 phosphate. I am not sure that it lessens the number of the 

 worms, but at any rate it stimulates the growth of the plant. 

 The only practical remedy I have ever tried is heavy manuring 

 and thorough cultivation and setting out plants by the thousand 

 instead of by the hundred." 



Winter cabbages may be set out in July on the land which 

 has grown peas and early potatoes. From five to seven thou- 

 sand can be grown per acre, which, at ordinary prices, will give 

 a handsome profit. Cabbages that have begun to head, but are 

 not large enough to be salable at the close of the growing season, 

 may be headed in pits during the winter so as to be solid in 

 the spring. Select a piece of ground where there is no possi- 

 bility of flooding, and dig a trench one spade deep and wide 

 enough for four or five rows of cabbage set in as close as it is 

 possible to pack them. There should be plenty of good soil and 

 a little fine manure under them, and as each row is put in, the 

 earth should be tramped on to the roots. They should be in 

 beds not over four feet wide and as long as necessary. Set 

 boards, a foot wide, on edge at the sides, and at the approach of 

 winter cover the cabbage with leaves, fine hay, or cut straw, and 

 then above this with corn fodder enough to keep out the rain, 



