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without bruises or injury from rough handling. Keep 

 water from the middle of the head. The heads should be 

 kept as cool as possible, without actually hard freezing. 

 Be sure that they do not dry out. 



A method of burying by a successful cabbage-grower is 

 as follows : Dig a trench about four feet wide and at least 

 one foot deep. Pull up the cabbage without shaking the 

 dirt from the roots and retaining all the leaves. Place the 

 heads in the trench with the roots up, close together, and 

 wrap the leaves closely around them. Throw a few inches 

 of straw over them and then cover with earth, — not more 



27. Cabbages buried on the surface. 



than three or four inches at first. Two dangers must be 

 guarded against: If too warm they will surely rot; or 

 if they freeze too hard they will be spoiled when the frost 

 comes out in the spring. After the weather becomes cold, 

 freezing somewhat, put on more earth. A foot will do no 

 harm in a cold climate. The entire lot may be lost by too 

 hard freezing. If possible, dispose of the entire crop in the 

 fall, even if obliged to sell at a low rate. ' The accompany- 

 ing pictures (Figs. 26, 27) show methods of burying 

 cabbages. The former is cabbage in a trench for home 

 use,'' from E. W. De Baun, N". J. Extension Bull., Vol. 

 1, No. 12 (1917), and the latter a "method of storing 



