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and distorted, is difficult to manage if cabbages or allied plants are 
grown continuously on land in which diseased plants have been raised. 
Changing the location of the cabbage or cauliflower patch is the best 
procedure. If very different crops, as corn, potatoes, peas, tomatoes, 
are grown on the land, the disease will be starved out in two or 
three years (p. 208). 
There are many ways of storing cabbages for winter and spring use, 
none of which are uniformly successful. The general subject is dis- 
cussed on p. 158. On this point T. 
Greiner writes as follows: ‘I have 
heretofore piled a lot of cabbages cut 
from the stump in a conical heap in 
the field, and covered them with clusters 
of the outer leaves cut off with a piece 
of the stump. The leaves are carefully 
placed over the heap in shingle fashion, 
so as to shed water. Cabbages thus 
piled and covered may be left out until 
real winter weather sets in. But I find 
that slugs and earthworms frequently 
infest the cabbages thus stored, and do 
a good deal of damage. It might be 
well to place a solid floor of lime or salt 
upon the ground, and then pack the 
cabbages upon this. If to be left out after severe freezing has set in, 
one should put additional covering, such as straw, corn-stalks or marsh 
hay, over the whole heap.” Mr. Burpee’s little book, ‘Cabbage and 
Cauliflower for Profit,’ written by J. M. Lupton, a prominent cabbage- 
grower, suggests the following plan for early winter sales: ‘‘ Take the 
cabbages up with the roots on, and store in well-ventilated cellars, 
where they will keep till mid-winter. Or stack them in some sheltered 
position about the barn, placing one above the other in tiers, with the 
roots inside, and covering deeply with seaweed; or if this cannot be 
obtained, something like cornstalks may be used to keep them from 
the weather as much as possible (Fig. 299). When thus stored, they 
may be obtained any time during the winter when prices are 
favorable. 
299. A method of storing cab- 
bages. 
