62 Teuok Growing in the South. 



CABBAGE. 



This is a crop that often proves a money-maker for the 

 South, but frequently proves unprofitable. . The most im- 

 portant information that can be had on this crop is when 

 to grow and when not to grow cabbage. This information 

 is particularly valuable to the extreme Southern truckers, 

 whose crops are due on the market in January, February 

 and March. The quantity and quality of the Northern 

 storage crop is almost always responsible for the price of 

 cabbage during the months named, and they often affect 

 the prices far into April, in seasons when they keep well. 

 To the growers located in the lower Gulf States whose 

 crops are to be marketed in the months above named, I 

 would say: If the l^orthern storage crop is normal, 

 let cabbage alone, or plant very lightly so as not to com^i 

 in before March 10th. If there is a market shortage in 

 the storage crop, and F. O. B. prices are sixteen dollars 

 per ton and upward about November 1st, plant heavy in 

 cabbage to come in in February and March. Sometimes 

 however, it will pay to plant a crop to come in the last 

 of March and early in April, even when there is a normal 

 crop of storage goods, but this condition exists only when 

 there have been killing frost in the lower South and the 

 new crop cut short. However it is impossible to foresee 

 this condition, and those who plant in protected localities 

 will have to take chances on the weather. It is a mis- 

 taken idea that cabbage are immune to frost in the lower 

 South. The writer has seen crops of cabbage practically 



