Money in Cabbages. 
There are at this season of the year, all 
through the country, pieces of good rich 
land which, from lack of time, have not 
yet been r lanted; or by reason of severe 
drought, or the devastation of worms and 
insects, or from some other cause have not 
at this time any crops growing upon them, 
and the owners are now interested in deci¬ 
ding what, if any, crops can still be grown 
which will prove remunerative. If the 
EARLY JERSEY WAKEFIELD. 
land is in good condition and a supply of 
fine manure can be procured, there are few, 
if any, crops which can still be put upon 
such lands which are capable of bringing 
as much ready money for the labor and ex¬ 
pense of cultivating as a good crop of cab¬ 
bages. 
Having been interested in the growing 
of this vegetable for a number of years, 
I will offer a few hints to those who are in 
a position to be benefited thereby. The 
cabbage plant is a gross feeder and if the 
soil is not already rich must be heavily 
manured. However, good fresh corn or 
potato land which lias vegetable matter 
enough in its composition to make it loose 
and lively ‘ will produce better results than 
heavy soil which has been several years un¬ 
der the plow. If there is not stable ma¬ 
nure enough at command to give it a good 
coating of that, a dressing of superphos¬ 
phate, bone dust or guano placed in the hill 
or around the plant and hoed in will an¬ 
swer every purpose 
Perhaps there is no vegetable, with 
which it is more important that a good stock 
or strain of seeds is secured to start with 
than the cabbage. There is much inferior 
seed in the market grown from poor, loose 
heads, or stumps on which no head has ever 
been, and such seed will almost invariably 
produce its like. “From nothing comes 
nothing,” is an adage applicable here. 
I have for a number of years used seeds 
grown from large selected heads, many of 
them finer than can be found in our mar¬ 
kets and find that such will give satisfac¬ 
tion every time. I have grown upwards 
of fifty varieties in a single season, but find 
that for practical purposes there are three 
or four which combine the most valuable 
features of the whole. For summer use the 
True Jersey Wakefield and Henderson's Sum¬ 
mer are unexcelled. For fall and winter 
the best strains of Large Flat Dutch, Fot- 
tler's Drumhead and Winnigstadt , are all 
that is desired. The Flat Dutch is the stan¬ 
dard winter cabbage of this country, and to 
fully mature in this latitude should be set 
from June 15th, to July 10th. In New 
Jersey and further south it can be set corre¬ 
spondingly later. The Winnigstadt and 
foTtler’S drumhead cabbage. 
Fattier's Drumhead are a few weeks earlier 
and hence can be set correspondingly later. 
As the cabbages head up best during the 
cool fall months, the late set plants make 
the finest and sweetest heads, providing 
they have time to mature. It is now too 
late to sow the seed for this seasons use, and 
those who have not a supply of plants must 
purchase them instead. The plants can 
