POSSIBILITIES OF MUCK SOIL 



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Mr. Wilkinson: I have raised cauliflower and cabbage on muck. 

 The trouble with cabbage is it is not tight headed. It would not 

 be well to keep it after the first of January. Cauliflower is the best 

 on the muck. It is very hard and of very fine quality. It has been 

 grown in Vermont and Massachusetts. 



Mr. Locke: Does it stand shipping well.^ 



Mr. Wilkinson: I have always grown it near the market. 



Mr. Bonnet: We tried some cauliflower one year. I remember 

 one carload we shipped to parties in Buffalo. It happened that we 

 came in contact with our Long Island friends, and found the market 

 glutted. W^e told the receivers if they knew of any place it could be 

 handled to advantage to send it on. They shipped the car to Cincin- 

 nati, and in due course of time we got a check for ten dollars. 



Mr. Locke: I think we should make it a point to get our cauli- 

 flower in before Long Island. I know that the best market is along 

 the forepart of September, in the warm weather. 



Mr. Bonnet: Wlien the first of our cauliflower matured, the 

 heads were very large, and we had some sample crates sent us from 

 Buffalo for shipping cauliflower, and we found we could not get our 

 cauliflower in them. So I made a few crates especially for the pur- 

 pose. They were quite long, and would just hold one-half dozen 

 heads. Those sold in the Buffalo market for one dollar fifty cents a 

 crate. But the market soon went right down. 



Mr. Greffrath: The weather seemed too hot for my early 

 cauliflower. I believe there are some sections where the atmosphere 

 is tempered by the lake which would be an ideal location for growing 

 cauliflower. 



A Member: Would irrigation help in this respect? 



CARROTS 



Mr. Greffrath: I couldn't say much about that. Let us 

 consider the carrot crop. Carrots have been grown by a large num- 

 ber of growers on muck land, and in a good many instances they are 

 grown as one of the first crops after the muck is broken, say the 

 second crop. In many sections, when they break new muck, they 

 will plant to some crop that can be cultivated with a horse for a year, 

 though that is not necessary. If you will plow early and put your 

 land in perfect condition, there is no reason why celery cannot be 



