Goop SEED 13809 
Strain 6 was secured from a private grower on Long Island 
who advertised seed for sale at $5 per pound, with the under- 
standing that the purchaser could sow half of it, and if he was 
not pleased with the result at the close of the season could return 
the part which remained and have the charge canceled, or if it 
proved satisfactory pay the advertised price. A study of the 
table shows that the seed was the best of the test, and from the 
standpoint of earliness of maturity was far superior to strain 4. 
In fact it will be seen that the difference in the financial value of 
the crop at the first cutting from one acre would approximate 
$140. The test also shows that some of the other strains were 
quite desirable. Thus when the general planting is made the 
following year it may be done with the assurance that the seed 
sown will give reasonably good results. Certainly there are few 
operations with which the gardener is concerned which will yield 
as large returns for the time and money invested. 
Fig. 377 shows the variation in strains of Charleston Wakefield 
cabbage, each of which was secured from a different seedsman. 
In this discussion we have concerned ourselves only with the 
good seed question with respect to cabbage. However, there is 
abundant evidence to substantiate the belief that the facts here 
illustrated are applicable to vegetable crops in general as well as 
to farm crops. 
