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bage nor any other cruciferous crop has been grown for at least 

 four or five years. This is important from the standpoint of 

 avoiding clubroot and other diseases of this group of plants. 

 The drills should be made a foot apart, to permit of wheel-hoe 

 tillage, eight to ten seeds dropped to the inch of furrow and cov- 

 ered with about one half inch of soil. Firming the soil after the 

 seed has been sown will insure more prompt germination. 



1. When should seed be sown for the late crop in your locality? 



W-VG : 267. L : 124. R : 20. 



2. When and how should the seed bed be prepared ? 



W-VG: 267. L:124. R:20. 



3. How should the seed be sown ? 



W-VG : 267. L : 124. R : 20. 



4. How much seed will you need ? How large a seed bed will be 



required ? 



14. Preparing the soil. — The cabbage requires high fertility. In 

 thin soils the heads either fail to mature or are small and soft. 

 The plants thrive in moist soils abounding in available plant food 

 and organic matter. Heavy clover sods provide ideal soil con- 

 ditions for cabbage. If clover or grass sods are not available, 

 then stable manure should be used more liberally. Any kind of 

 manure, old or fresh, may be used to advantage for cabbage. The 

 amount that should be applied will depend on whether a sod is to 

 be used and also on the fertilizer application. If half a ton or more 

 of a high-grade fertilizer is used with a heavy clover sod, stable 

 maniu-e might be entirely omitted. Most excellent crops of cab- 

 bage are grown on good soils without any stable manure. With sod 

 on moderately fertile land, ten tons of stable manure, and at least 

 half a ton of commercial fertilizer to the acre, should give good 



