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128 CROPS 
Bay, Wis., as follows:—Assume that you have 
first-class land worth $200 per acre: 
Interest and taxes per year will cost, say. .$15.00 
Forty loads manure at $1.00 per load..... 40.00 
Plowing and fitting the ground........... 3.00 
10,000 plants at $4.00 per thousand...... 40.00 
Setting and watering ................... 5.00 
After-cultivation.................22.0.. 10.00 
Harvesting and marketing............... 50.00 
Wotal evi oe le ay a guipetenteeeas $163.00 
8000 heads sold at $3.50 per hundred.... 280.00 
Net profit...a 55 cura eaburens $117.00 
If you get only 8000 plants out of 10,000 set, 
it is a little below the average return, and as 
the market price is estimated at only 34 cents 
per head, there is no trace of exaggeration in 
these figures. The estimate was made ten years 
ago. 
A crop of cabbages can be grown and har- 
vested in 100 to 110 days, which makes possible 
two crops from the same piece of ground in the 
one season. There are two ways of planting 
the first crop. One is to use a good rich seed- 
bed and sow the seed in November, the favorite 
variety being the Jersey Wakefield. When 
the plants are three or four inches high, trans- 
plant them to cold-frames in a protected spot 
and let them winter there. In the spring they 
