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not on the plants. This makes the cabbage 

 head up quickly and uniformly, and makes the 

 heads crisp and tender, besides increasing the 

 yield enormously. This crop should all be 

 marketed by July 4, and the yield should be 

 from 8000 to 9000 heads per acre. 



For the second crop, sow the seed in a good 

 bed in the open, about the last of May and by 

 July 15 at latest, the plants can be transplanted 

 to the field. Between marketing the first crop 

 and transplanting the second, the ground should 

 be again thoroughly prepared by the addition 

 of 1000 pounds of fertilizer to the acre and 150 

 pounds of nitrate of soda. Plant the same as 

 in first crop. The variety most used is the large, 

 early Dwarf Flat Dutch. 



In growing late cabbage there is much more 

 danger of maggots and other insects destroying 

 your crop. The New York Experiment Sta- 

 tion has tried a simple device which has given 

 satisfaction so far as tested. This consists of 

 screening the bed completely with cheesecloth 

 which protected the plants from maggots. 

 From 1800 square feet of screened bed 50,000 

 plants were transplanted to the field, while 

 from an unscreened check plat intended to 

 plant 40 acres, only enough plants for four acres 

 were secured. The plants were "hardened" 



