Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-11-09
GROWING CABBAGE PLANT.
A Matter That is Very Little UnderstoOd
BY Farmers.

IHisricGH IgrirIliIriSi.
/ Raising Cabbage plants is simple. The
chief essentials for success are: First
rich, warm, welldrained and well.cultivateC
land Second, good seed that ia sure Il
grow. Third, liberal dressing of super
phosphate Perhaps the last is, practically
the most important. One of the chic
causes of failure is the black jumping
beetle. As soon as the plants push through
| the soil, the beetles puncture the young
leaf and suck out the juices. Lime, ashes
SCOT cheap tobacco dust, or snuff, busted
on the plants, will more or less benefit
them. The true remedy lies back of this
Plenty OF plants on o given area. and rapid
growth.
There is nothing that will push cab
| bage or turnip plant forward so rapidly
as superphosphste The seed is small
and contains very little food 10 nourish the
young plant. The superphosrhste, espec
tally if sown directly under the seed, has
magic effect. On our farm we SOW the
cabbage seed in rows tweutyone inches
apart. The object is, to enable rs to &C
through the rows with a horseshoe
have not tried it, but am inclined TO think
it would be a good plan to drill in q
row of turnIp seed very thick be
tween the rows Of cabbage seed. Let the
beetle eat them, and welcome. Csuli
flower seed, especially of the choice vsrie'
ties, is still smaller than cabbage seed, and
comes up later and grows more slowly.
The superphosphste is Of great benefit to
Young csulidoWer plants And q row oil
turnip plants between each two rows OF
cauhaOwer plants may be Of use. When
rhe horse hoe is run through the rows the
turnip plants would be destroyed, and by
that time the csuhfower and cabbage
would be fairly started, aud stand chance
of getting ahead Of the beetles.
We have SAID the land must be rich. II
is hardly possible to make it too rich.
Fresh manure Just plowed under does not
seer the purpose. Land MANFRED hesv.
lly for the previous crop is good; or, and
this is why We write on the subject now
the manure may be applied in the fall, and
either ploRed in or left on the surface
Last spring, the demand Was for early
plants. We mean by this, not plants win
Tered over or started in the hotbed, but
from seed sown early in the spring out OF
doors They were wanted about the mid.
die of June, and from that until the first
Of July. To meet this demand, it is nee
essary to SOW the seed as early as the soil
is in working condition.
The true plan is to get the land thor
oughlV prepared and heavily msnured in
the fall. II the land is light aud sandy, it
will need nothing but little surface cult
walton before sowing the seed Sow the
superphosPhs,e at the rate Of three pounds
to Eve pounds to the square rod. If sown
broadcast Ave pounds is none too much.
Work it into the soil sn inch or two deep.
if convenient; but it can be soan on the
surface before or after drilling in the seed,
and trust to the rain washing it down to the
roots of the young blauts. Test the seed
before soRiug-snd more especially the
cauliaower seed. II only halt Of it grows,
COW double the quantity. This is very i'm
portsnt. because If the plants are thin in
The rows, the beetles will almost certainly
destroy them.