Show CABBAGE AS A FARM CROP it II 14 co codly aly to grow loit ander ra torallo all owing to its being ri nitrogen ni crop cabbage is ia a rather costly crop to grow it produces when well fertilized a greater mount of stian th giving tili uncut nent than farmers can grow in any other way thare ale aio times when the iho cabbage supply is beyond botond the late in fall then is when the crop of lato late cabba cabbages I 1 es cornes comes into market yet if cabbage growers will heel iu it their crop so a as s to koca it chrol agh f lie 10 winter will it can usually bo depended depend eil upon to bring fair prices tit the spring by growing early end and late magbag ragbag rag bag n succession it of this th vegetable ran can be 18 had bad all through the year the ver very y rail vaila cabbage needs to bo star sturlee leil in tho fall anil and kept slowly growing through the winter in ill thet coldest part oi of tile the hotbed in places where severe freezing is not probable the plants aro are letl left out ont of doors and aad covered covarr d so na as to protect thew them in spring arrin they are het out in soi eon made us its licit as possible with well rotted minute leas lais manure will do it some nitrate of enda with readily available nitro nitrogen en can be obtained A portion of t these fall started plants are forced in the hothouse and are ivady to sell bell by the time the dor dormant mittit portion ran can bo be planted out of doors those these frosli fresh early cali bages are gold eom very small email lint but they bring a bagh aiice pi ice and pay fairly wll ivell the sp spring n planted cabbage is ready for sale through may ilay june anil and july mccordis ac cordis to its forwardness ward ness neEs when planted the lif heads ads tire small email but they bi ing better belter prices than large cabbage heads beatis do late tit in the fall late cab cabbage barle will do well on land rich enough to grow n largo large corn crop late in ill tile berson on cultivated ground and especially where coat coarse so manlike has been applied in spring there is a 1 large development of available nitrogen especially in late juve jure or caily july when vl cn air and ground are warm but the american cultivator think that a essing hessing h of nitrate of soda will pay even on oil late cabbage cabb in in malting aking more rapid and larger growth it pays to use uhe on the seed bod bed where the young plants arc grown lor lato outdoor setting this is wade made in april or slay may anil and however highly the seed bed caf nia be ba the young plants diata so BO heavily tor for nitrogen that an all additional supply is always s an all advantage vei acy 3 muth much d depends on keeping the plants thinned so that each shall I 1 have bave plenty of still and air this is best done by frequent transplanting which also makes the plants stocky and encourages the growth of a fibrous loot tito tho late cabbage needs to lie ba about three feet anait in lows lov s each way so BO as to allow most of the cultivation to bo be done with horse and cultivator early cabbage does not so wilch lunch room as it is marketed while much binch smaller cabbage especially the late crop is a balky crop to handlo handle for its price I 1 lence it la is not best to grow it very largely unless scar near a good mail maillet ret dut but thero there is scarcely eca icely a farm place where the fact thit that a farmer hits has a few biln hundred line fine boreale f or eale will not bring him orders elou enough ai in liin bis own neighborhood borl to disi dispose lose of the crop tile the small villages ale aie usually more poorly supplied with cabbages and other vegetables thin ale aie large cities and such euch a village should bo be made the mor t bof of as a market by all farmers who live near bear it |