118 VEGETABLE GARDENING. 



when seed is sown as late as the first of June. The plants will 

 be ready to set out by the last of June, when they should be 

 carefully transplanted. The land should be thoroughly pul- 

 verized and marked out three feet apart each way, unless it is 

 to be manured in the hills, when it should be furrowed out one 

 way and marked the other way. The plants should be set at 

 the intersections of the marks, but it is not a good plan to set 

 them on top of the manure, but rather to put them on the side of 

 it. This is especially important if the manure is not well 

 rotted. The cultivation and after treatment are the same as 

 for early cabbage. 



Cabbage from Seed Sown in the Hill. If the seed is to be sown 

 in the hills, the land should be treated as recommended when 

 the plants are to be transplanted. It is generally necessary 

 for success to have the soil moist when the seed is sown. After 

 the land is marked out, seven or eight seeds are sown at each 

 intersections covered with about half an inch of soil and 

 pressed down with the sole of the foot. The plants generally 

 come up inside of a week and should be hand-hoed at once, 

 and when large enough cultivated with a horse. When big 

 enough to stand alone, take out all but one plant from each 

 hill and treat as directed for those that ha vebeen transplanted. 



Harvesting Late Cabbage may be done by selling directly 

 from the field or by storing for marketing during the winter. 

 If the heads are nearly ready to burst, they cannot be kept 

 long and should be disposed of at once. There is generally a 

 good demand in the late autumn for this vegetable for general 

 marketing and also by the pickling factories for making 

 sauer kraut. Cabbages will stand ten degrees or more of 

 frost, but severe freezing is very injurious; they are seldom 

 injured by frost unless the stump is frozen solid. If there is 

 danger of severe freezing before the crop can be marketed or 

 stored, it is a good plan to pull the plants and put them into 

 piles, with the stumps inside, and cover the whole with straw 

 litter. Piled and covered in this way, they may be left in the 

 field until severe freezing weather and will generally be safe 

 in such a condition in this section until the first of Decem- 

 ber. At harvesting there may be some heads quite too loose 

 for marketing, and such cabbage will improve very much if 

 stored as recommended for seed cabbage. 



