CABBAGE GROWING. 
allowed to run in a small stream as closely as possible behind the man who 
is setting the plants. Working in this way, two persons can set from eight 
to fifteen thousand plants per day. 
From four to eight days after the plants have been set, the water is 
run through the rows, and sometimes this is repeated two or three times 
before the ditches are filled. When the plants have become sufficiently es¬ 
tablished the land is leveled. This is done sometimes by hand with a gar¬ 
den rake, but can be done as well and at less cost with a horse and garden 
cultivator of the Planet Junior twelve-tooth or Iron Age type. Several 
1. Cold Frames 2. Filling in Furrows after Plants have 
become established 
3. Harvesting 4. A Cabbage Field ' 
shallow cultivations are given during the season, and it is usually necessary 
to go over the field once or twice with the hoe to cut the weeds from the 
rows. 
After the first ditches are filled and irrigation becomes necessary, the 
shovel plow is run between the rows, making a ditch sufficiently deep to 
run water across the field without flooding the plants. 
IRRIGATION. 
Few crops are more particular about water than the cabbage. Al¬ 
though it is a gross feeder, it will soon wilt and stop growing if the soil is 
dry, and on the other hand, if the land becomes water-logged the plants 
will turn yellow and stop growth. The frequency and number of irrigations 
then depends on the character of the soil and the amount of rainfall. If 
