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mings are sometimes used for stock food. Soft springy 

 heads are not mature enough for market, although they are 

 sometimes shipped to meet an advance price; they do not 

 keep long in good condition. A good cabbage head should 

 feel firm and hard when pressed by the fingers; it should 

 be free of decayed spots, cracks and blemishes. 



For market-garden and truck-growing purposes, cab- 

 bages are usually shipped and sold by barrel or by crate; 



but the general 

 late farm crop, 

 used for kraut 

 and for cattle 

 feed, is handled 

 by bulk in 

 wagon, motor- 

 truck and car. 



Cabbages are 

 extensively stored 

 for winter use 

 and sale. The 

 first requisite to 

 success is to 

 store only such kinds as will keep, exercising as much 

 choice in this respect as in the storing -of apples. The 

 early cabbages are naturally not of this kind. The flat 

 or drumhead types usually do not keep well. The Danish 

 Ballhead types are solid and long keepers. A success- 

 fully stored cabbage should be plump, not shrivelled, 

 free from disease, full of natural moisture. Cabbages are 

 stored either in the ground (buried) or in buildings. 

 They should be free of rot when put in storage, and 



