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cent each. Noav put in the seed and soak fifteen minutes. 

 After which take out and spread to dry, but not in the sun 

 or near artificial heat. The seed can be sown wet just as 

 well, but it is not quite as handy. This treatment will kill 

 any cabbage disease that might be clinging to their oily seed 

 coat. 



Where seed is sown in the open we usually allow one-half 

 pound of seed for one acre of cabbage. Of course, this is 

 four times too much if it were not for insects and so forth. 

 It is always best to have plants enough. A dollar invested 

 in seed goes a great deal farther than it does in plants, even 

 if one was sure he could get good, healthy plants. We 

 usuahy sow our seed about the first of May. 



The Cabbage Field and Its Preparation. 



We prefer to have as great a period between two crops of 

 the cabbage family as possible. The cabbage crop will adapt 

 itself to a great variety of soils, if it has enough to feed on. 

 A soil too much on the gravel order is as bad as one too wet. 

 We usually put our cabbage on sod ground, which has been 

 plowed eight or ten inches deep. We prefer to plow, either 

 in the fall or early spring. Then this ground can be kept 

 thoroughly worked until setting time. 



By dragging at least once a week, most of the weed seeds 

 in the soil will be germinated and killed, also the early mois- 

 ture Avill be maintained, which is of great importance. 



A twenty-five ton crop of cabbage probably removes more 

 tons of moisture and green matter than any other crop the 

 average farmer raises. 



After the heads are removed, probably there are left fif- 

 teen tons of roughage. Most of us place too little value on 

 this roughage. The Maryland Experiment Station analyzes 

 the cabbage plant for digestible protein as follows : Heads, 

 .41^,-: roughage, 1.42', . Silage only analyzes 1.20. If a 

 man has no stock to feed his roughage to, they ought to bring 

 a good price from some neighbor who has. 



Fertilization. 



Cabbage needs plenty to eat, as well as drink, if we expect 

 to get large crops. It takes as much fertility out of the soil 



