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important, because this depends on the first cutting for its profits. 

 Some of the thirty-one produce only seven tons and some eleven to 

 the acre. The next variety is Charleston Wakefield, twenty-four 

 strains. We find that the heads were fairly uniform, weighing about 

 one and three-quarters pounds to each head. At the first cutting 

 the average heads were larger than the Early Jersey Wakefield. They 

 are shorter and broader, and weighed a trifle more. We find the total 

 yield greater, eight tons to eleven and one-half tons. The next 

 strains tested were Succession or All Seasons or All Head. There was 

 a difference in head weight running from three and a fraction to four 

 and a fraction for each head. This is a summer cabbage. There- 

 fore, the first cutting is not important, but the total yield per acre is 

 very important. The results showed fifteen and one-half to twenty 

 tons. The next group is the Flat Dutch type. We find twenty-two 

 strains were used, and the difference in the heads was more marked, 

 two and eight-tenths to four and one-half pounds for each head, and 

 the difference in total yield about eight tons. The next type, Volga, 

 was the highest, from three pounds to four and one-half pounds 

 weight of head, with a range in yield from eighteen to twenty -five 

 and one-half tons. Danish Ball Head varied even more than Volga, 

 from less than two pounds to three and one-half pounds per head, 

 and six to twenty and one-half tons per acre. 



The average difference in strains of seed was about seven tons 

 to the acre. That is a very important factor. If we have an average 

 difference of seven tons to the acre in seed from different sources 

 and sell cabbage at say three dollars a ton, that is a very consider- 

 able difference. As we want that difference to mean profit, we 

 must have strains of seed which will produce the high and not the 

 low yields. 



About the seed. Quite a few years ago the tendency was to buy 

 all seed from Long Island. But today we are not buying so much 

 from there — we are buying from South Jersey, from Virginia, from 

 Michigan, and from the West, where we can obtain quite a pure 

 article. Two things must be secured. One is selection of the type 

 which is fairly constant for the whole field, in other terms, roguing. 

 We must pick our cabbage which represents absolutely the type we 

 wish to propagate. If we choose from a Michigan strain anything 

 upon the field, we do not obtain the high quality we wish. Long 

 Island has difficulty in growing seed, that is, the seed produced there 

 is sometimes mixed with Brussels sprouts seed, and a plant is pro- 



