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Mr. Smith. We do not keep our crop the year round, 

 but we keep it until the Southern cabbages are on the mar- 

 ket, until it is no use to have it any longer. 



Mr. Ely. Have you any trouble with club-footed cab- 

 bages, and if so, what do you do with them? 



Mr. Smith. We have had no trouble with club-footed 

 cabbages for fifteen years. The remedy, I suppose, is in the 

 selection of the land, as I gave it in the essay, choosing land 

 that had not been used for cabbages for several years. You 

 will find in some fields low spots where the water stands. 

 Cabbages in these spots will have more of a tendency to 

 club-foot than they will on the ordinary field. I do not 

 know as I have any explanation of it, but other growers tell 

 me it is so, but in our own experience we do not have it. 



Question. Have you ever had trouble from the cabbage 

 worm, — the green worm ? 



Mr. Smith. That does not troul^le a great deal where 

 cabbages are raised in large quantities. In small quantities 

 they do trouble somewhat. There are about so many green 

 worms to the acre, and if they are distributed among ten 

 thousand heads, they do not do any particular damage. The 

 enemy of the cabbage we have to contend with is the mag- 

 got on the early cabbage. 



Mr. Sage. I would like to ask the speaker if a wet 

 season has anything to do with the keeping qualities of 

 cabbage ? 



Mr. Smith. Well, we make the effort to keep ten thou- 

 sand heads. I have ten thousand sound cabbages now. We 

 shall try to keep them, and next spring will tell better how 

 they have kept. I have some stored in three ways this 

 winter. What we store for immediate sale w* can store 

 almost any way. What I expect to sell last are in racks ; 

 and some I have piled up, the roots together and heads 

 out, in beds right across the cellar that rise as high as a per- 

 son can conveniently put the cabbage on. 



Mr. Sage. To keep them, do you cut the roots oflf or 

 leave the roots on ? 



Mr. Smith. I cut the roots ofi' of those on the shelves, 

 because it takes so much room with the roots on ; but the 

 others I do not take off. 



