The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-23
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRI-
CULTURIsT AND HOUSEWIFE.

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A Tribute to the CabbaGe-Whnt Is
Necessary to Good Cabbage
Crop-RHiSinG Strawberries in
the Kitchen Gnrden-House Gull
/ ture of Hyacinths-SOmc Notes on
! Fruit Culture.
There is hardly any other crop that
/ gives the grower the pleasure and sat
/ isfaction that a good crop of cabbage
does. and by a good crop We mean one
where 30 per cent. or more of the
plants make a good, solid head, rang
ing in weight from to s pounds to
the head.
1t may require a little more knowl-
edge and skill to produce fine head OF
caulifiower or of celery, but to do it
gives but little more satisfaction than
to produce fine, large, solid head of
cabbage, perfect in every particular.
When thus grown there is nothing
more profitable than the cabbage crop.
A fine crop of cabbage is dependent
upon the three requisites that are es-
sential to the success of any valuable
crop to wit Good seeds, good soil,
good cultivation. If the texture of the
soil is not just right it is not so easily
remedied. but if the soil is merely poor
it can be made rich by application of
suitable manure. But 1t makes all the
difference in the world to grow a crop
on soil naturally rich instead of on
soil artificially enriched. 1t requires
a great deal Of manure to fit poor soil
for cabbage, but soil fairly rich to
start with can be made fit for good
chops of cabbage with the use Of $Z5 to
$50 worth Of good manure per acre.
a good crop of cabbage means about
4,590 heads that will average pounds
per head when trimmed for shipment.
This would not satisfy a Long Island
cabbage grower probably, but it may
be considered a very fair crop on av-
erage cabbage soil in the South. An
acre of land that will produce five or
six hundred pounds of lint cotton
could be made to produce much more
than $1,000 pounds of cabbage, and
especially so if SIS worth of good fer
tilizer were used on the acre.
1t is not well to use any fresh,
rank manure applied directly to the
crop. Such manure should be applied
to the soil at least several months
before the crop is started. If applied
in the fall and lightly plowed in it
will lose it's rankneSS by spring. 1t
Is always safer to use old compost for
cabbage, experimenting this with bone
dust, ashes or other substance furnish
ing potash and some nitrate of soda,
applying the latter after the crop has
been started and the season favorable
for stealthy growth. In the lower
South tho nrnfi a HE of rah-
bage is that grown from paintings in
October or November. 1T is an expert
enced and a wise trucker that can
grow the late crop of cabbage in the
South, the crop that natures in the
fall or winter. The man that can
make a success of this crop year in
and year out should make a good deal
of money at trucking in the course of
ten years.
AS remarked, much depends upon the
seed, upon the variety. One kind will
do welL while another kind will prove
a failure. Kinds like the FLORIDA
Header" "All Seasons" Brunswick
and early Flat Dutch" and "Bunco-
rub" will succeed where many other
kinds would not be satisfactory at all
1t is an art to produce first class cab
bage seeds and there are not many en-
gagged in the business of growing first
class seeds.
One had better pay S. a pound for
good seeds than to take cheaply grown
seeds as a gift. The latter will never
make fine heads, but will be mostly
"collards."
A fine variety of cabbage for fall
planting is the Improved American
Savoy" All cabbage seed should be
bought as the result of correspondence
with a reputable seed grower, who will
guarantee their quality and trueness
to name Many meet with dlsappoint-
ment every year with their crop as a
result of their neglect to oserve this
plan. 1t is important to start right
even in the matter of cabbage grow
ing. s O.