COLE 
i CROPS 
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” 
