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smaller heads will uore than make up in growth for the loss 
caused by cracking. 
Fig. 434 shows a Planet, Jr., cultivator rigged for cabbage when 
the plants are small. When the leaves commence to get large the 
side blades, or ten inch hoes as they are called, can be reversed 
so that the long end will run out under the leaves without break- 
ing any off. This allows nearly all evaporation to be checked 
even when the cabbages are large. Cultivation should be con- 
tinued throughout the entire season. 
CABBAGE DISEASES 
The bacterial disease known as stump rot or black heart is the 
most serious thing a grower can have in his soil. .\ crop rotation 
of even ten vears does not seem 
to be a remedy. The cure is 
—keep it out. Other fields are 
very easily inoculated bv carry- 
ing dirt on farm machinery, 
animals’ feet, or feeding stock 
diseased roughage, then spread- 
ing the manure on a non-infested 
Fic, 438.— Snowrna Arraxce- field. Cabbage seeds often carry 
esata eh igh FOR the disease. They should always 
be soaked for fifteen minutes just 
ee eed ee 
before sowing, in the following solution: for one pound of seed 
dissolve in an earthern dish one corrosive sublimate tablet in one 
pint of water. (These tablets mav be obtained from any drug 
store for one cent each.) After soaking, spread the seed to dry, 
but not in the sun or near artificial heat. 
Club root is familiar to us all. A rotation of five or six vears 
is sufficient to kill it if the ground is kept free from all plants 
belonging to the cabbage family; this includes mustard. It 
being a slime mold disease, lime greatly helps to keep it in check. 
Often cabbage raised twice in succession on the same ground will 
show the disease. 
INSECT PESTS 
The cabbage has three quite serious insect enemies. First, the 
flea beetle, a small black bug which eats the leaves of the seed- 
