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with hay a little too lightly, and nearly lost the whole by 

 too much freezing, and another who stored a large cellar 

 full, kept them a little too warm and shrunk them badly ; 

 they were sad. The cabbage grown around Lowell and 

 Lawrence is partly sold in the cities named, but the bulk of 

 the crop is shipped to Boston or further, and some days as 

 many as ten carloads will be sent in from that vicinity. 



Cabbage shades the ground so closely as to kill out such 

 troublesome weeds as " pussly " and witch-grass quite 

 easily. It would seem as though every one ought to know 

 by this time that cabbage will not follow cabbage or turnips 

 on the same ground without an interval of three years or 

 more, on account of that once mysterious disease, the stump- 

 foot, but every year someone gets caught and loses his crop 

 because he does not know this, or because he does not be- 

 lieve what others tell him, or perhaps he knows more than 

 any man can tell him. 



I will give you the accDimt of my premium crop of cab- 

 bage grown the past season. Of course it is the record of 

 the best piece, but the rest did nearly as well. The soil is a 

 deep, dark, mellow loam, somewhat stony, and located on a 

 high hill naturally pretty well drained; for the three years 

 previous it was cropped with beans and Hungarian, having 

 but a slight application of phosphate. The land was in 

 pasture at the time I bought it some four years ago, and 

 has had no manure for at least ten years. It was plowed 

 and harrowed June 4th, spreading twenty loads of barn 

 manure on the piece before plowing, and applying 1200 

 lbs. of ground steamed bone before harrowing, and using 

 950 lbs. of Tucker's Bay State Phosphate in the hill, mix- 

 ing it well with the soil before dropping the seed, which I 

 prefer to plant where it is to grow rather than to do much 

 transplanting. 



The seed w;?>s planted in the hill, June 8 and 9, and the 

 crop was cultivated and hoed three times; one hundred 

 days from seed I could cut plenty of 8 and 10 lb. heads, 

 the largest and best cabbage being found where there was 

 the heaviest application of phosphate. The land measured 



