8 
THE COLORADO EXPERIMENT STATION. 
This makes an average price for ten years of 45.51 cents per hundred 
pounds. The average yield per acre for the State is difRcult to obtain. 
Theoretically, with from twelve to fifteen thousand plants to the acre, 
there should be a yield of five pounds per head, or from fifty to seventy-five 
thousand pounds per acre. In practice, only from fifty to seventy-five per 
cent, of the plants ever make heads. As many pounds per acre could be 
obtained by placing the plants much farther apart. Large heads, however, 
are undesirable for shipping, so the size per head is cut down by thick 
planting. The actual yield per acre is from fifteen to fifty thousand pounds. 
The minimum yield at the average price makes a gross return of 
about seventy-five dollars per acre and a net return of something over forty 
dollars. This year some fields near Greeley have brought a gross return 
of $355.25 per acre. 
MARKETS AND STORING. 
When the market will permit, the crop is sold direct from the field. 
Some seasons, however, the market at harvest time is over supplied, so that 
storing becomes necessary. Several methods of storing are used in various 
parts of the country. In any case, cabbage for storing should be left in the 
field as long as possible before harvesting. The heads should be dry and 
not frozen when handled. Undeveloped heads may be stored in trenches, 
the roots buried in soil and the tops covered with straw or manure as for 
seed. In this way many of them will make marketable heads in January 
or February that were soft in the fall. Mature cabbage may be cut as for 
market and stored in bins in the potato or onion dugouts, providing plenty 
of air circulation all around the cabbage is given and the temperature is 
kept close to the freezing point. 
VARIETIES. 
It has been found that cabbage, like potatoes, are more satisfactory 
for market if only a few well-known varieties are grown in a community. 
At Greeley, Winningstadt, Hollander, and Cross are grown almost exclu¬ 
sively. 
The two former varieties are too well known to warrant a description. 
The true name of the latter is “Ne Plus Ultra,” but is much better known 
as “the Cross” cabbage. This cabbage is the result of an accidental cross 
made in 1894 between the Winningstadt and Henderson’s Excelsior Plat 
Dutch. These two cabbages are radically different in type, the former being 
decidedly conical in form and early, while the latter is late and decidedly 
flat in form. The Cross is as nearly as possible half way between the two 
parents in season and form, being medium early and nearly globular. 
The originator, Mr. John Leavy, of Greeley, says: “To the growers 
it needs no recommendation, as they willingly paid $10 per pound for the 
seed. * * * * Its advantages over all the so-called standard varieties are 
as follows: Pine texture, more solid and compact, crispness, and a heavier 
yielder than any variety grown at Greeley.” Though this cabbage has 
been grown from select seed heads since 1895, there is still a tendency to 
revert to one or the other of the parents. Each year, while the majority 
of the heads in the field will be globe-shaped, there are many that are 
conical or flat. This variety has never been listed on the market, except 
locally at Greeley and Port Lupton, for notwithstanding the price of seed 
has been two or three times as high as other varieties, there has never been 
more than enough seed to supply the local demand. 
