SEE0-T1S1E AND HARVEST. 
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My Experience With Cabbage. 
BY THOS. D. BAIRD. 
Last spring I bought of Mr. Tillinghast 
liis Puget Sound cabbage seed, Early Jersey 
and Premium Flat Dutch. The seed ger¬ 
minated splendidly. The Early Jerseys 
were sown quite early and I had nice plants 
by the middle of April. April the 18th, 
xny ground was broken deep and worked 
mellow. A liberal quantity of Homestead 
fertilizer, some 600 pounds per acre, was 
sown broadcast and harrowed in and the 
ground planked and rows marked off three 
feet apart. Fertilizer was dropped some 
three spoonfuls to each hill and a nice hill 
made around on this and the plants set. 
They were cultivated deep and often. Two 
or three times during growth they were 
given about a gill of strong brine to each 
hill. A wet spell caused them to get quite 
grassy at one time which interfered with 
their growth so that I did not get them on 
the market until the 27th of June. The 
market being quite dull I did not get them 
all sold off until the 25th of September. 
And what is remarkable about it is that 
the heads remained good, showed no sign 
of bursting, nearly every plant made a nice 
head, they were nearly as solid as wood. 
Their enduring the summer’s sun gave me 
a chance to dispose of them although the 
market was dull. 
In June I broke up an old strawberry 
bed. The ground was broken deep and 
harrowed over until mellow, plank dragged 
over it to make it level and then marked 
off three feet between the rows; hills were 
made by mixing about three tablespoonfuls 
of fertilizer in the hill. Half the ground 
was set with nice plants of the Premium 
Dutch variety, on the other half, seed was 
sown in the hill, of the same variety. This 
was done to see what difference there 
would be in the cabbage as there was no 
difference in the soil. Those that were 
set died badly as it was late in summer, as 
is usual for plants to do set this time in 
the year. The soil of the hills that were 
sown with seed was firmed by stepping 
on the hill. The plants came up well. 
The whole patch was well worked, both 
parcels received the same work, the seed 
ground received its work some later but no 
more. The plants that were set made fine 
cabbage, but the plants were badly missing; 
while the ground on which seed was sown 
had no missing hill and much the finest 
heads. I am persuaded that to sow the 
seed in the hill where they are to grow is 
the best way to raise late cabbage. I 
know some think to make good heads the 
plant must be transplanted, but I do not 
think it necessary. In sowing seed in the 
hill you can thin out the plants letting the 
best plants remain; in this way you will 
have no missing hills, and secure a selec¬ 
tion of the.most vigorous plants. 
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