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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 12, 1921 
Water Lilies 
For Farm Ponds 
Most farms have a pond which could 
be made far more attractive with the 
broad leaves and large, fragrant, richly 
colored blooms of Water Lilies. They grow 
r readily, need no attention, yet are always inter- 
' eating. Send today for our free catalog ; it tells how 1 
Independence Nurseries 
Box R, Independence, Ohio 
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895 Garson Avenue Rochester, N. Y. 
SWEET 
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Profitable crop. Splendid Hay 
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Better for soil than alfalfa. Not 
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Budded Nut Trees ersof large thin shelled 
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INDIANA NUT NURSERY. Box 55. Rockport. Indiana 
Early Cabbage in Orange Co., New York 
In my market early cabbage nearly 
always is a fairly paying crop, although 
the cabbage from the South comes in 
direct competition with our home-growu. 
due to the fact that we have practically 
direct water communication with the 
Southern shipping points. When you 
consider that.it is possible even in field 
culture to grow three or more, heads of 
cabbage on each square yard of land you 
can easily see the great amount of heads 
that can be produced on an acre. The 
great secret of growing profitable early 
cabbage is to grow it early, so that it 
will get on the market at just about the 
time that people are getting tired of the 
poor, tough, wilted mess of leaves that 
;comes from the South and which mas¬ 
querades under the name of “cabbage.” 
To grow early cabbage in this section 
the growers start the weds in the green¬ 
house about January 5 to Janus-y 20. 
sowing the seeds in flats or on the green¬ 
house benches in any spaces that happen 
to be vacant, if possible in the coldpst 
parts of the houses. The plants are 
transplanted perhaps about twice in the 
house, then .set in cold frames about 0 
in. apart both ways. After being thor¬ 
oughly hardened off by exposure to the 
air. so that they are in condition to with¬ 
stand considerable cold, or even frost, 
they are in readiness to transfer to *bo 
final position in the field, about April 15 
in this latitude, the Central Hudson 
Valley. 
The field in which the plants are to be 
set is plowed in the Fall and again early 
in the Spring. A thorough harrowing is 
given, and the rows marked out 3 ft. 
apart with an ordinary corn plow. A 
high-grade fertilizer is then sown in these 
furrows, and the plow again run up the 
furrow to mix in the fertilizer 60 it will 
not burn the plauts. When ready for 
setting the plants a spade is used-to cut. 
down between the plants in the cold 
frame, and then each plant is taken up 
with a square of earth hanging to its 
roots. The plants are taken to the field 
on low wagons with flat platforms with¬ 
out sides, and the plants distributed in 
the furrows, placing the plants about a 
foot apart. Sometimes the rows are run 
out a little closer and the plants set 14 
in. apart in the rows. 
A slight covering of earth is kicked or 
hoed over the roots and the plants are 
left. In a day or so they will straighten 
up. and then the cultivator is started and 
used about once a week until the crop is 
ready for marketing. No hand hoeing is 
necessary, as the plants, being set in the 
furrow, whenever the cultivator is run. 
some of the dirt drops in the furrow about 
the plants, covering up and smothering 
any small weeds that may have started. 
When ready for market the cabbage is 
cut close, nearly all leaves being removed, 
and packed in barrels, about two dozen 
filling a barrel. Practically, all is mar¬ 
keted locally. Hast season the price 
ranged from $3 per barrel for the first in 
market all the way down to 40 cents, 
when the glut was on. this last being a 
give-away price and running the grower 
into debt. C. o. warford. 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
Cotton and Peanut Farms 
On page 1773, November 20. 1920. 
J. G. K. implies greed upon the part of the 
cotton growers because he demanded 40c 
for his 1920 cotton crop. Careful esti¬ 
mates place the cost of producing this 
crop in the State of Alabama at 34c. 
Why is it unreasonable for the cotton 
grower to ask for a little profit? 
J. G. K. says he did not sow any wheat 
last Fall because he did not believe the 
1921 crop will bring $2. I take it that 
he estimates it would cost him this much 
or more to produce a crop of wheat. 
The difference between J. G. K. and the 
cotton grower seems to be that the latter 
does not like to sell cotton below cost, 
while J. G. K. does not like to sell wheat 
below cost. 
What is true of the cotton market ap¬ 
plies as well to the peanut market. Our 
crop of running peanuts was above the 
average in yield for this section. The 
cash outlay for growing this crop per acre 
was as follows: Fertilizer, $4.50; pick¬ 
ing. $4.20: seed. $3; total, $11.70. The 
price dropped to $30 per ton. which gave 
us $10.65 per acre—a net cash loss of 
$1.05; this in addition to labor, horse 
feed, depreciation, interest and taxes. 
Let me ask J. G. K. if the Southern 
farmer is unreasonable in demanding 
enough for his peanut crop, too, to ’reim¬ 
burse him for his cash outlay, at least? 
Alabama. J. d. prickett. 
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