Planting Cabbage by Machine 
Growing 1’i,\nts. —On page 70 F. 
A. B. wants to know about cabbage¬ 
setting machine. In this section plants 
are grown in the open and under cheese¬ 
cloth. It is best to gi'QW plants on a 
warm, sandy soil, well drained. If one 
knows in the Fall he is going to plant 
cabbage the following Spring it is best to 
manure and plow his seed bed then, 
leaving nntil Spring, drag down and har¬ 
row in a bag of commercial fertilizer 
well up in nitrogen to every^ pound of 
seed planted. As we have the cabbage 
maggot here witli early varieties, it is 
best to cover v.nth cheesecloth. This 
keeps off the fly that lays the egg of 
the cabbage maggot, which eats the plant 
off at the ground. In making the cheese¬ 
cloth we generally take three breadths 
of cloth and sew together, about 50 yards 
long, and make the frames that width 
with one-inch boards a foot wide for 
sides. In putting on the cloth stretch 
it tight and leave no holes for flies to 
get in. You may have to stretch a wire 
across to keep from sagging. It is best 
to take off once to hoe bed and pull out 
big weeds, but if soil is fairly clean this 
will not be necessary. Using cheese¬ 
cloth thus will bring your plants from 
one to two weeks earlier than those grown 
in the open. 
I’repaking Soil. —If you are going to 
jilant on sod it i.s best to plow in Fall 
or very early in Spring, as cabbage never 
does well on sod jdowed just before plant¬ 
ing. All cabbage land should be plowed 
early and diaigged oftim to hold moisture, 
and after every rain until planting time, 
which in this location is anywhere from 
first to last of .lime, not later than the 
Fourth of .Tuly. 
Planting. — If plants are grown under 
cheesecloth it is best to remove cloth 
three or four days before planting. We 
imll and .sort our plants before we start 
to plant, being careful to keep them 
even, separating every jilant and throw¬ 
ing away the little ones, so everj' plant 
will be a good one. so there is no sorting 
when iiianting. Some iieople mark their 
lots before planting, but with a slow 
walking team and a good driver you can 
get your rows as straight as an arrow. 
In regard to iilantei-s, some sections use 
one kind and others use another, but 
they are all on the same principle. It 
takes one man to drive and two to set 
(boys, girls or women can do this), and 
a boy to draw water. Machines arc 
made to regulate distance of plantsi to 
be set in row. Such varietix‘s as Wake¬ 
field. ('oi)enhagen Market and Fnk- 
huisen’s Glory do not need to be set as 
clo.se as flat-growing kinds and Danish ; 
IS to 20 inches for Wakefield, Copen¬ 
hagen and <51or.v. 20 to 22 inches for flat 
kinds and Danish. All-head Farl.y is 
grown the most in this section, as it has 
a small core and makes the best sauer¬ 
kraut. You know when to put in the 
plant by the click of machine, or when 
the water starts to come. Fach one on 
planter must get his plant in at proper 
time, or plants will not be .spaced right 
in row. It doe.s not take, much water if 
land is moi.st, but if dry use lots of it. 
You should plant from two to three acres 
a day. 
Cx'LTiVATiON. —If you Start to culti¬ 
vate just as soon as you can and are 
careful to get up close you will never 
have to hoe a piece of cabbage. Culti¬ 
vate at least once a week and after every 
rain. The fir.st and second cultivation we 
do with a one-horse cultivator with very 
small tooth on the calibage sidt', going 
twice in a row; in this way you will 
get very close. Every one in this S(*c- 
tion u.ses a idanter; in taking an auto 
ride to Canandaigua, going through 
Phelps. Clifton Springs and Manchester, 
coming back by way of Castleton and 
Geneva, we saw at least 50 machines in 
operation. Almost everyone uses com¬ 
mercial fertilizer, either putting on with 
grain drill before planting or with fer¬ 
tilizer attachment on machine, 200 to 
-lOO iiounds (o acre. If cabbage is to be 
followed by oats I would advise plowing 
leaves, small cabbage and stumps under 
in Fall, or if cabbage is cheap, as it is 
sometimes around .$2 a ton, take a disk 
and go over two or three times to cut it 
up and jilow under at once, and you will 
be surprised to see the crop of oats you 
will have the following Summer. 
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