VIEW No. 4. Farm hands busy 
cutting and stripping the heads; 
on the left is seen heads already 
cut and stripped and waiting to 
be given a last close inspection, 
after which the absolutely per- 
fect heads are laid aside in rows. 
(The first selection is done be- 
fore the plants are cut, in this 
way those plants showing the 
least irregularity in type have 
their stems broken and the la- 
borers know that these are re- 
jected ones and not to be cut 
and stripped.) 
The cabbage seed I bought of you 
last spring turned out even better than 
1 anticipated. In spite of the drouth last 
summer my cabbage yielded 20 tons per 
acre. The dealers thought the quality 
fine and others remarked it was the best 
Danish they had seen this year. Thank- 
ing you for sending me such good seed. 
J. B. HANNAN. 
Fairport, N. Y. 
Tests made by experts show that only a com- 
paratively small part of the cabbage seed sold is pedi- 
gree seed — seed bred up for many years from selected 
heads to produce a maximum tonnage or yield. 
Every man that is going to set out a field of cab- 
bage wants a big crop — a crop of just as big and solid 
heads as is possible to get — every head solid. 
He wants the largest number of tons per acre 
that he can get. 
VIEW No. 5. The stripped heads (those found absolutely 
perfect after having been given the final selection, and to 
be used for seed plants) being carted away to the field that 
has been prepared and in which they are to be planted. 
VIEW No. 6. The perfect heads being planted; those 
finally selected for seed plants. The heads are planted in 
trenches, in which holes are dug by hand. 
VIEW No. 7. The fields after the 
planting of the heads for seed has 
been completed. The heads will 
later on — before frost sets in — be 
covered with the soil flanking the 
trenches and same stamped solid 
around each head, and finally cov- 
ered altogether. In case of severe 
winter, they are further protected 
with a cover of sea weed. 
There is no way to get this kind of a crop ex- 
cept by using thoroughbred seed — seed that has been 
raised for years from only large and solid heads, 
where every small and loose head has been taken out, 
and only the large and solid heads used to raise seed. 
VIEW No. 8. The seed plants (the planted heads in full bloom 
(The flowering season is the most critical period; a most 
promising crop can fail altogether from attacks by insects, 
which are just as liable to eat the flowers as the seed pods, 
when those later on are formed.) 
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