150 TRUCK-FARMIXG AT THE SOUTH. 



cabbages, to assort the sizes, although this is not generally 

 done. A barrel will contain from eighteen large Bruns- 

 wicks to fifty of the Winningstadt, as small as should be 

 shipped, although smaller will sell. An equal crop of 

 the two varieties will average seven thousand two hun- 

 dred and sixty plants per acre. With reliable seed, and 

 under favorable circumstances, six thousand eight hun- 

 dred of these should produce marketable heads. 



From one hundred and seventy to two hundred barrels 

 per acre is a good crop. One of the most successful 

 gardeners near Savannah marketed one thousand seven 

 hundred barrels from eight acres, which averaged, in the 

 Northern markets, four dollars per barrel gross. His 

 crop, closely planted, was manured with forty two-horse- 

 wagon loads of unsheltered stable manure and night-soil, 

 supplemented with Peruvian guano. 



My own shipments last year averaged four dollars and 

 fifty-three cents, principally in the New York and Bos- 

 ton markets. This may have been due to better sales 

 rather than to the superior quality of the cabbages, and 

 good packing may have had something to do with it. 



It must, however, be stated that prices ruled unpre- 

 cedentedly high during the season of 1882. 



Freights from Savannah to New York and Boston 

 were fifty cents per barrel. Commissions on sales were 

 from seven to eight per cent. 



Near Norfolk a local variety of cabbage is cultivated, 

 known as " Tait's Extra Early." The seeds of this are 

 sown about the last of August, the crop is transplanted 

 in November, and is ready for market about April 1st. 

 Jersey Wakefield, and Large York, sown about Sept. 

 20th, and set oat in early winter, will come in about the 

 same time. Seeds of the last two kinds, if sown for the 

 main crop, under glass in October, and the plants put out 

 in February, will come in later, but p?-oduce much the 

 best cabbages. 



