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Summer." These are the wholesale prices for large 

 New York. In smaller cities, where the product is 

 consumer, one-third more would likely be obtained... 



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LATE CABBAGE 



are such as mature during the^months of September, Octol 

 November, the seed for which is sown in open ground in May or 

 June. Perhaps the best date for sowing for general crop is about 

 1st of June. We always prefer to sow cabbage seed for this purpose in 

 rows ten or twelve inches apart, treading in the seed with the feet 

 after sowing and before covering; we then level with a rake length- 

 wise with the rows and roll or beat down with the back of a spade, 

 so as to exclude the air from the soil and from the seed. Sown in this 

 way cabbage seed will come strongly up in the driest weather, 

 and is less likely to be injured by the black flea than if it made a 

 feeble growth. As the ground used for late cabbage only yields one 

 crop, unless manure is cheap and abundant, it will not often pay to 

 use it in the profusion required for the early cabbage, so that it is 

 usual to manure in the hill, as is done for early crop, if with stable 

 manure, but when that is not attainable, some concentrated fertilizer 

 such as bone dust or guano should be used, using a good handful for 

 each hill, but being careful of course to mix it well with the soil for 

 about nine or ten inches deep and wide. In this way about 300 pounds 

 per acre will be needed, when 6,000 or 7,000 plants are set on an acre. 

 In our practice, we find nothing better than pure bone dust and 

 guano mixed together. For further information on this subject, 

 see chapter on ' ' Manures and Modes of Application," in this work. 

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from the seed-bed to the open field in summer, the work is usually 

 done in a dry and hot season end of June or July and here again 

 we give our oft-repeated warning of the absolute necessity of having 

 every plant properly firmed. If the planting is well done with the 

 dibber, it may be enough, but it is often not well done, and as a 

 measure of safety it is always best to turn back on the rows after 

 planting and press alongside of each plant with the foot. This is 

 quickly done, and it besides rests the planter, so that he can with 

 greater vigor start on the next row. In some sections of the country, 

 particularly in the New England States, six or eight cabbage seeds 

 are planted in the hills, and when of the height of two or three inches 



