F. W. BOLGIANO & CO., INC. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Instructions For Growing Early Cabbage 



FIRST, AND MOST IMPORTANT, buy plants 

 grown from well-bred carefully selected seed ; they 

 will probably cost a little more than the cheaper plants 

 giown from ordinary seed, but you can not produce a 

 good crop of cabbage from plants grown from cheap 

 unselected strains of seed. 



When plants arrive, remove from package as 

 soon as possible ; dissolve one-fourth pound Octagon 

 or some similar laundry soap (not lye soap) in four 

 gallons warm water; let cool; then immerse plants, 

 roots and tops, for two or three hours. This will 

 destroy lice or other insects, and benefit the plants. 

 Plant immediately upon removing from water, and put 

 a little water in hole at root when planting. 



Select rich, moist land, but have it well drained. 

 Cabbage requires a lot of moisture, but will not grow 

 on poorly drained, sour, or water-sobbed soil. Plow 



t land is well pulverized 

 Lay out rows either 



you prefer) with bull 

 We recommend 3-foot 

 Put down 1,000 pounds 



deep and harrow well so tha 

 as deep as it is broken. 

 2^ or 3 feet apart (as 

 tongue or other small plow, 

 rows where land is plentiful, 

 of high-grade fertilizer per acre in marks. Cover 

 and make up small bed by plowing two light fur- 

 rows on fertilizer. This work should be done a week 

 or ten days before your plants arrive. Set plants 

 well down so that the entire stem up to the first 

 leaves is covered with earth. If stems are left ex- 

 posed, freezing weather will cause stems to split; 

 a maggot will get in this split, eat through the 

 stems of the plant to the bud and destroy same. Be 

 sure soil is well packed at roots to avoid an air 

 space, which would prevent plants from rooting or 

 growing. Set your plants 15 to 20 inches apart in 

 the row. It will take about eleven thousand plants 

 first setting, and usually about one thousand to supply 

 the missing places where plants die or are lost for 

 various causes. 



Leave plants as set without further cultivation 

 until two weeks before the time that your spring 

 weather usually opens up, then run a subsoil plow, 

 or a small turn plow, with the mold-board removed, 

 twice in "every other alley," at the foot of the ridge 

 on one side of each bed. Follow this work with 

 500 pounds of the same high-grade fertilizer per 

 acre in alley plowed, then immediately use a small 

 sweep or cultivator, with teeth well drawn in, be- 

 hind the fertilizer to stir it in the soil and cover 



In ten days, subsoil, fertilize, and sweep the other 

 alley which was left at first working, using 500 

 pounds of the same fertilizer per acre, in the same 

 manner. After this you should cultivate light and 

 often, following the plan of cultivating "every other 

 alley" about once every five days, thus working both 

 alleys every ten days. The dryer the weather, the 

 oftener and lighter should be the cultivation — the 

 idea being to keep a thin dust mulch on surface of 

 soil but not to disturb the roots in any way. 



There should be no deep cultivation after the last 

 subsoiling and fertilizing. The time to do most of 

 the work on a cabbage crop is before the plants are 

 set. Break your land just as deep as possible with 

 two- or three-hiose plow, then disk harrow and 

 pulverize thoroughly as deep as broken. After your 

 cabbages are harvested, you can, without additional 

 fertilizer, grow a crop of hay, sweet potatoes, or any 

 other crop that will mature in a short season, and 

 make a heavier yield than you would if the cabbage 

 had not been grown on the land. 



Remember the crop produced will depend upon 

 the grade of seed from which plants are grown. The 

 cost of land, labor, and fertilizer is the same whether 

 you make a crop or not. Therefore, you cannot 

 afford to use plants grown from cheap, unselected 

 strains of seed and take the chance of losing 

 your crop. 



F. W. Bolgiano & Co., Inc. Washington, D. C. 



Growers of 

 SEEDS THAT SUCCEED 



