114 LATE CABBAGE 



Mr. Reed: We never hoe our cabbage at all. If the 

 ground has been thoroughly worked before setting time and 

 you cultivate both ways, it will seldom be necessary to do any 

 hand work. 



Question: How many acres do you grow? 



Mr. Reed: Usually about four or five. 



Question: How often do you try to cultivate? 



Mr. Reed: About once a week. Always after every rain. 



Question: Do you have any trouble with club root in 

 Cortland County now? 



Mr. Reed: Yes, a great deal of it. 



Question : If you had a crop of cabbage that grew very 

 well in the fore part of the season and then produced only 

 rather small heads, would you consider that a bad type of 

 seed or cultivation? 



Mr. Reed : There are three possible causes. A poor strain 

 of cabbage, lack of fertility or lack of moisture. 



Question: What do you do for worms? 



Mr. Reed : The most satisfactory method is to spray with 

 paris green. A good thrifty plant will generally take care 

 of itself. 



A Member: We have had good success with paris green. 



Question: Does it pay to spray for the aphis? 



Mr. Reed: I do not think so in the majority of cases. 



Question: Will the aphis live over in the ground? 



Mr. Reed : It will live over in the stubs and roughage left 

 in the field. 



Question: Do you think if you took the aphis right on 

 the start that would cut off the trouble with the rest of the 

 field? 



Mr. Reed: It might help, but still they spread from all 

 over the neighborhood. They seem to come all of a sudden 

 and where they come from you do not know. 



