A Chapter on Cabbages. 
As a market crop for farmeis who reside 
within easy driving distance of any one of 
the thousands of thriving towns or cities 
which are so plentifully scattered over this 
country, or who are so situated as to be able 
to ship their produce by rail or water, there 
are few, if any, crops that can be made to 
pay a greater profit on the amount of land, 
labor and capital involved than a good crop 
of cabbage. Now that the manufacturing 
interests have made so great a start all over 
the land, and the mechanics are all employ¬ 
ed at better wages than for a number of 
years, the demand for cabbages, as well as 
ather market garden crops, is likely to be 
greatly increased. 
EARLY JERSEY WAKEFIELD CABBAGE. 
The cabbage plant is a gross feeder and 
some good soluble plant-food must be sup¬ 
plied to the soil in sufficient quantities to 
keep it growing thriftily. Do not attempt 
to grow cabbage in old gardens which have 
been long in cultivation, if a good, new sod 
can be obtained. A deep sandy loam seeded 
to clover and plowed under early in autumn 
makes the best possible foundation on which 
to produce a crop the following season with 
the aid of manure orspecial fertilizers. 
The first point from which failure is like¬ 
ly to come is in the selection of the seed. 
It is as impossible to harvest a good crop of 
cabbages from an inferior lot of seeds as it 
is to produce “figs from thistles.” The se¬ 
lection of varieties and time of sowing seeds 
must depend upon the season of year in 
which it is most desirable to market the crop. 
HENDERSON’S EARLY SUMMER CABBAGE. 
The art of successfully growing the plants 
has been fully given in our new work on 
“Vegetable Plants,” and requires too much 
space to be repeated here. We will simply 
say, in this connection, that in order to pro¬ 
duce a paying crop, good healthy plants are 
of prime importance. To produce these, 
those voracious little flea beetles must be 
kept off from the beginning. Not only are 
the plants in danger of being entirely de¬ 
voured by them while small, but all that are 
left after having been badly infested by these 
fleas, are sure to be subsequently attacked 
by a small white maggot which is the larva 
of the beetle, and which eats all the small 
fibers off the roots and so seriously injures 
the plants that if not killed entirely by them, 
they are almost sure to become the victims 
of disease and finished. 
NEWARK EARLY FLAT DUTCH CABBAGE. 
After setting the plants . hoe them often 
and keep them growing. No plant seems 
to be benefited more by frequent cultivation 
than the cabbage. If you have any doubts 
about your soil being rich enough to pro¬ 
duce the best Results, drop a handful of fine¬ 
ly pulverized hen manure, guano or phos¬ 
phate around each plant and mix well with 
the soil by hoeing. After the plants are well 
