CABBAGE 



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Mr. Greffrath: You can't cure blight, but you can prevent 

 it. Spray with Bordeaux mixture at least once in ten days, applying 

 under high pressure to get it over the entire plant. 



A Member: What kind of celery do you grow? 



Mr. Greffrath: Golden Self -blanching. 



CABBAGE 

 Albert E. Wilkinsox, Ithaca, N. Y. 



As a general thing, a year of low prices and high production is 

 caused by low production and high prices the preceding year. Such 

 was the case during the past season. 



I have a few figures which would be of great interest. The value 

 of cabbage in the United States, according to the latest census 

 figures, is $9,000,000, while in New York more than $2,000,000 is 

 raised. If you will compare those figures, you will find the crop in 

 New York amounts to one-quarter of the total crop of the United 

 States. There are forty-three thousand farms in the United States 

 which report cabbage growing, and in New York more than eleven 

 thousand. Comparing yields, New York had a little more than one- 

 quarter. The area of cabbage grown in the United States is one 

 hundred twenty-six thousand acres, of which New York has thirty- 

 five thousand. These figures represent a very big fact — one-quarter 

 of the acreage, one-quarter of the number of farms and one-quarter 

 of the valuation. If we wish to go a little further, we can use these 

 figures to find a little about the value of this cabbage. First, we might 

 take the average acreage per farm. The average acreage on each 

 farm is three plus. The average return gross from these three 

 acres is $200.00, or $66.14 gross for each acre. 



VARIETIES 



We have this cabbage divided into two very large groups. The 

 first is that grown by the market gardener. The market gardener is 

 a man in vegetable raising very near to the source of demand. He is 

 generally on high-priced land, and must use intensive methods. The 

 other great group is the truck farmers. They differ from the 

 market gardeners only in raising their products away from the source 

 of demand. They may be fifty miles away or five hundred or five 



