90 CABBAGES. 



nights of hard, black frost, the Cabbages will not 

 keep well, and will probably rot badly before 

 Spring. Therefore it is better, in the latitude of 

 Kew York, to pull and bury the Cabbages on or be- 

 fore the 25th of November, to be sure that the out- 

 side leaves are not injured by frost. 



At the time of pulling, each man is provided 

 with a stick about three feet long and one and a 

 quarter inches in diameter. This stick is carried in 

 the right hand, to be used as a pry while pulling the 

 Cabbage, and, when the head is turned upside down, 

 for knocking the earth from the roots. Beginning 

 at one side of the jQeld, every man takes two rows 

 of Cabbages, and, as he pulls, sorts them into two 

 sizes. The large, solid heads are thrown into one 

 line, while the second size, or small, hard heads, are 

 put by themselves into another. This plan we find 

 to work better than huddling the heads all together, 

 large and small. It sometimes happens, in the Win- 

 ter, that a customer wants a load all of one kind, 

 either large or small ; and when they are in separate 

 beds, there is no trouble in getting out, at the time, 

 just what is wanted. 



When the Cabbages are all pulled, a suitable spot, 

 or ridge, is chosen to make the bed ; or a continuous 

 line of beds across or the length of the patch. A 

 narrow strip, eight feet wide, of ground that is a 

 little higher than the adjoining surface, is preferable 

 for the purpose. The Cabbages from either side, for 

 a distance of ten or twelve feet, are carried to this 

 chosen line, and one man places them close togethei', 

 beads down and roots up. We make these beds 



