CAULIFLOWER 1437 
first, followed by the crop of cauliflower. If this method ig 
practiced, the land is worked very heavily throughout the sea- 
son, and there seems to be no opportunity for a cover crop. In 
western New York the general method is to devote the land to the. 
one crop during the season. The soil should be very finely pre- 
pared in order to facilitate transplanting. The best time to 
transplant is in cloudy or rainy weather, and if possible, more than 
one transplanting should be made. This will aid in lengthening 
the period of harvesting and in distributing labor. If a sunny 
day is selected for transplanting, the plants should be set only 
during the latter part of the afternoon. 
On a large area machine planting is the system in vogue. 
With smaller areas hand planters are used. The machines greatly 
reduce the amount of hand labor and make the work more rapid. 
The stand is less perfect than with hand planting, and it is 
quite necessary to go over the patch by hand and reset. One or 
two hand planters on the market at the present time, according to 
figures, reduce the cost of planting, and in comparison with the 
method used, give better satisfaction than horse-drawn machines, 
especially on areas of five acres or less. On the large machines 
drawn by two horses, a barrel of water is carried, and at each 
click of the machine a half pint of water is delivered in the 
furrow. The clicking of the machine denotes the location of the 
plant, and the droppers, who are on the rear of the machine 
close to the ground, should place a plant at this time. Sometimes 
the water is allowed to run continuously because there is a 
variation in the placing of the plants. For the most successful 
work with the machine, the ground should be fairly dry. If the 
soil is wet, the machine does not work as well. 
If hand planting is used, it is possible to mark out the field in 
two ways and place the plants at the intersection of the marks. 
The distance between rows should be three feet and the distance 
between plants in the row from eighteen to thirty inches. Plants 
set by hand can be cultivated both ways. Where the plants are 
located three feet apart between rows and thirty inches between 
