The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-03-06
HOW TO GROW
EARLY CABBAGE

! EARLY CABBAGE
First and most important buy plants
grown from weIl-bred carefully selec-
ted seed, they will probobIy cost twice
as mnch asthe cheaper plants grown
from ordinary seed. but you cannot
produce good crop Of cabbage from
plants grown from cheap unsolicited
strains OF seed.
When plants arrive, remove from
crates s soon as possible; dissolve one
fourth pound Octagon or some similar
laundry soap mot lye soap)in four gal
Ions warm water; let cool; then i'm
merse plants; roots and tops for five
minutes. This will destroy lice or
other insects, and benefit the plants.
Select darkest, heaviest land. but
have it well drained. Cabbage require
a lot of moisture, but will not grow OH
poorly drained, sour, or water-sobbed
SOIL Plow deep and harrow well So
that land is we'll puverized as deep lit
is broken. Lay out rows either q or 3
feet apart las you prefer with bull
tongue or other small pfow. We re-
commend 3-foot rows where land is
plentiful. Put down 900 pounds fer
tilizer per acre in marks. Cover
up small bed by blowing woljght fur
rows on fertilizer. This work should
be done few days before your plants
arrive. Set plants well down SO that
the entire stem up to he fest leaves is
covered with earth. Il stems are left
exposed freezing weather will cause
stems to split; maggot will get in this
split, eat through The stem OF the bud
and destroy same. Be sure soil is well
| packed at roots TO avoid an air space
which would prevent it from growing
or roofing. Set your plants Is TO 20
inches apart in the row. 1t will take
about twelve thousand plants for the
| first setting, and usually about one
Thousand TO supply the missing places
where plants die or are lost for various
| reasons.
Leave plants as set without further
cultivation until about two weeks be-
fore the time that your sprvg weather
| usually opens up, then run Il subsoil
plow, or boy Dixie, with the mold
board removed, twice in "every other
alley at the foot of the ridge OH one
side Of each bed. Follow This work
with 500 pounds of the same fertilizer
per acre in all alleys plowed, then use
a small sweep or cultivator, with teeth
well drawn in, behind the fertilizer to
| stir it in the soil and cover same.
| In about ten days, subsol and fer
| lilize the other alley which was left at
fist working, using 800 pounds OF the
same fertilizer per acre, i'll thee same
manner. After this YOU should cult
vate light and often, following the
plan Of cultivating ''every other alley"
about once every five days, thus work.
ing both alleys every ten days. The
drier the weather, the oftenar aid
lighter should be the cultivation. The
idea being TO keep thin dust mulch
on surface of sol but not to disturb The
roots in any way.
There should be no deep cultivation
after the subsoiling and fertilizing
The time To do most Of the work on
cabbage crop is before the plants are
set. Break your land just as deep as
possible with two or three horse p!ow,
then disk harrow and pulverize
| thoroughly as deep as broken. After
your cabbage are harvested, yo can,
without additional fertilizer, grow a
crop of bay, sweet potatoes or any
other crop that will mature in short
season and make heavier yield than
you would if the cabbage had not been
grown on the land.
Remember the crop produced will
depend upon the grade of seed from
which plants are grown. The cost of
land, labor, and fertilizer is the same
whether sou grow crop or not.