188 IRRIGATION FARMING. 



Cabbage. Plant early varieties in rows two feet 

 apart and eighteen inches in the row. Late kinds should 

 be set three feet apart in two-foot rows. Manuring is 

 quite essential, and if neglected in the preparation of 

 the ground, liquid manure may easily be supplied 

 through the furrows and the plants will respond readily 

 by putting on a healthy growth. In transplanting, the 

 water should follow the work, and another irrigation 

 should be given the succeeding day ; then lapse a day 

 and irrigate again. Allow two more days to go by and 

 give still another but lighter irrigation. All this is done 

 to assist the plants to put forth new roots and also to 

 prevent wilting down. In irrigating cabbage it is essen- 

 tial not to allow the water to flood the plants under any 

 circumstances. If the work of preparation and planting 

 is properly done the water will run through the furrows 

 between the ridges, and from their termination will run 

 from one furrow to another, until all the field is finally 

 "covered. It is the small running stream long drawn out 

 that counts, and after a cabbage patch once receives a 

 good wetting subsequent irrigations need not be so pro- 

 longed or copious. After the heads of the cabbage 

 plants are half formed no water whatever should be 

 given, on account of the excessive use of water having a 

 tendency to cause the growing heads to burst. After 

 the heads are fully formed the stalks may be split par- 

 tially down the side three or four inches, which retards 

 further expansion. 



Cauliflower. Set out and treat the same as cab- 

 bages and the work is done. Irrigation is carried on 

 exactly the same as for the cabbage crop, and liquid 

 manuring maybe applied in the same way. We have 

 found Henderson's Snowball the best early variety. 

 Then in order of maturity come Extra Early Dwarf 

 Erfurt and Long Island Beauty, with Ihe World Beater 

 coming last. If then i : ;ny de\ iation from the cali 



