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attractive condition. Appearance counts for more than any- 

 thing else in obtaining high prices, and too much care can- 

 not be exercised in the cleaning and grading of vegetables 

 and in arranging them artistically in packages which are 

 neat and attractive. 



Mr. Erwin. I would like to ask if you can take all-season 

 cahbage and make it head up hard for winter ? 



Professor Watts. You can never make the all-season cab- 

 bage as hard as the late cabbage, but by proper use of the 

 mineral element you can make it harder than you can 

 without. 



Mr. Erwin. Can you make it hard late in the fall as you 

 can the late summer cabbage ? 



Professor Watts. No, I should say not; although early 

 planting will help to do that, but there you run the danger 

 of its maturing too soon and bursting. The trouble is that 

 winter comes on and catches you before all your heads are 

 hardened. 



I want to say that we have a bulletin entitled, " Strain 

 Tests of C^abbage," which is just out. I will be glad to nuiil 

 it to any one. Simply address, State College Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, State College, Pa., and ask for Bulletin 

 1^0. 119. 



I want to call your attention to another experiment. I be- 

 lieve that every experienced asparagus grower in this coun- 

 try realizes that it pays to plant a large one-year root. We 

 have been running a little crop experiment with the Palmetto 

 at the college to show that. The practical conclusion from 

 our results is that a man had better throw away the small 

 roots rather than plant them. Grow your own roots, grow 

 lots of them, and discard all the small ones. We have se- 

 cured similar results with the Argenteuil. 



QuESTiox. Does a cover crop that is raised and plowed 

 in for a succession of years, fill all the elements of the soil 

 without much fertilizer ? 



Professor Watts. The same principle is involved there 

 as in the use of large quantities of manure. The growing of 

 a leguminous cover crop necessarily adds to the supply of 



