The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-03-23
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CULTIVATION OF LATE CAB
RAGE.
American Farmer.

American Farmer.
Messrs. Editors american Far
mer: The manner of cultivating OF
Late Cabbage is not quite so ex-
pensive as that for early, and as
consequence thereceipts for the crop
are correspondingly low. In fact, II
is often sold at prices that would not
more than repay the price OF ma
nure and labor expended on the
early crop; but it can be raised
with much less manure and labor:
and on land less valuable. 1t is
very extensively grown in our To-
cality; some planting as many as
one hundred and fifty thousand
plants in one season. The seed
are sown in March, any time after
the 18th, when the ground is IN
proper condition to use a garden
rake. After getting the beds IN
suitable order with plow and
smoothing harrow or rake we SOW
the seed rake in lightly, so as not
to pile the seed, and firm the earth
to them by treading or pattlng
with the back of a manure shovel :;
this is very necessary, particularly
if the ground is dry.
If the flea appears we have found
once bushel of plaster, saturated
with about one gill and a half OF
gasoline or coal oil, applied lightly
when the dew is on to entirely ezter
inmate them.
The preparation OF the ground
for caggage differs in nothing from
that for all the regular market
crops, requiring careful plowing
and narrowing. They are set out
in July on the ground from which
early potatoes Or peas have been
grown. Mark off the rows about
three feet apart each way with
one-horse plows, apply one shovel
full of well-rotted manure to two
hills, or one handful of some good
fertilizer to two hills. Then take
an one-horse plow and throw a
good furrow on the manure, so as
: to cover we'll; with a hoe give a
firm pat on each bill, or what l
think is better, use a light one
horse roller, and roll two rows at q
time. This is very essential, as it
gives us season for planting many
times, which we would not have If
the ground had been left loose.
Do not disturb every alternate
middle, this will blot out the
cross burrows, and greatly i'm
pede the progress in planting. The
crop is almost exclusively worked
by the culti7ator and double shovel
plow, one hoeing usually suf6cing
around the plants. We allude to
varieties with some hesitation, as it
is generally believed by every seeds
man that his variety is the best.
Ny experience has led me to use
Flat Dutch variety, grown by one
of my Sspeighbors, Mr.. Thomas
Humphrey, when I can get them, it
being an early, solid, large header.
Landreth & Sons, OF Philadelphia,
have SOME very good varieties,
o. Flat D.ntch and Drumheads;
AMI the reliable seed houses of
Baltimore have the same.
About the second week in Oc-
tober those that have not been mar
keted, ne secure from frost by pull
ing up all the solid heads, and turn
ing them head down in he middle
of the row, four or more rows to-
gether, covering the heads by
throwing two horse furrow on
both sides of them, leaving the
roots out; We secure the loose
ones by bedding root down in a
furrow made by a one-horse plow,
filing the length Of furrow with
cabbage; throw on the next furrow,
covering the roots we'll, and so on
till the bed is finished. For pro-
lection against the severity OF the
Winter we cover the beds with
leaves from the woods about six
inches thick when first put on,
laying on some fine brush or some
thing else to keep the wind from
blowing them of. A. RIDER.
4. 4. Co. Feb. "a, 81.