46 CABBAGE. 



THE VALUE OF LIME. 



In cabbage and cauliflower cultivation, lime is 

 indispensable. One of the largest growers in this 

 country attributes his success to the use of lime. He 

 grows annually sixty acres of cauliflower and nearly 

 as much of early cabbage. When he sets his plants, 

 he puts a handful of shell lime around each plant, 

 and he never has club-root or stem-rot. The 

 lime touches the plant and covers the ground in a 

 circle of about four inches in diameter, and it remains 

 on the surface until after the first hoeing, when it is 

 lightly covered. 



CULTIVATION. 



As soon as the plants are established the culti- 

 vator should be set at work in the field, and the hoe 

 in the garden ; not only should they be set at work, 

 but kept at work, as steady, persistent labor in culti- 

 vation is the price of the crop. The soil should be 

 worked deep before the plants are set, but shallow 

 cultivation afterward is all that is required; in fact, 

 more cabbage is injured by disturbing the roots with 

 the small plow than is generally supposed. Keep the 

 surface soil at all times fine and light, which will pre- 

 vent evaporation, at the same time keep down all 

 weeds, and the secret of successful cultivation is 

 discovered. 



In many of our best cabbage-growing districts, 

 the small plow, that was formerly considered indis- 

 pensable, has long since been discarded, and the 

 wheel cultivator is no longer doing its deep work. 

 The truckers or market gardeners, who have small 



