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LATE CABBAGE 



Question : Would you rather use sod ground or old 

 ground for a cabbage crop? 



Mr. Reed: We have always used sod ground. We are 

 taking our sod ground that has quack grass in it. We plow 

 that ground, say some time in August, put a harrow right 

 on and work it thoroughly; and quite often if it has quack 

 badly, it will clog a common harrow and you will have to 

 rake and burn or draw off the roots. Keep the harrow go- 

 ing occasionally until the end of the growing season. In 

 the spring we take that ground and throw it the other side 

 over. By having plowed as early as we did in the fall, that 

 sod will be pretty well rotted. Now the quack can be taken 

 out of this side just as we did the other side. The trouble 

 with people trying to kill quack is they always leave enough 

 in the bottom of the furrows so it comes right up through. 

 We usually use a common spring-toothed harrow. 



Mr. Haw: How does a disc harrow work? 



Mr. Reed: It works very satisfactorily. It cuts up the 

 quack a little more. The spring-tooth pulls it out a little 

 better. We have had pretty good success with both. 



Question : How would it do to put on a late crop of buck- 

 wheat and plow it in? We tried this, plowing it in when 

 it was in blossom. 



Mr. Reed: You plowed it again in the spring and work- 

 ed the quack out from the other side. 



Same Member: There seemed to be no quack there, and 

 we put on corn, I think, the next year. 



A Member: Please give your experience in feeding 

 roughage. 



Mr. Reed: The second day of February, our cabbage 

 roughage was all fed and there was a difference of just one 

 can of milk between that morning and this morning, Febru- 

 ary 11th. One can less. We substituted the feed of cab- 

 bage with a feed of clover hay. We have found this to be 

 true for the past three years. 



Question: How many cows are you milking? 



