. Late cabbage, from seed until harvest, also seed raising . hould be where only mediumsmall heads are wanted and row them both ways. Thisone way of rowing plants means that you must hand-hoethe crop, if you keep the weeds out of the rows. Most set-ting work with a two-horse machine is done very unevenly;the plants will be anywhere from 2 to 4 feet apart. Ifyou ask the men what distance they are setting the plantsthe reply will usually be, from 20 to 30 inches on the average. After the rig has set an acre or so, you just measure off100 feet of a row, and then count the plants; nine times outof
. Late cabbage, from seed until harvest, also seed raising . hould be where only mediumsmall heads are wanted and row them both ways. Thisone way of rowing plants means that you must hand-hoethe crop, if you keep the weeds out of the rows. Most set-ting work with a two-horse machine is done very unevenly;the plants will be anywhere from 2 to 4 feet apart. Ifyou ask the men what distance they are setting the plantsthe reply will usually be, from 20 to 30 inches on the average. After the rig has set an acre or so, you just measure off100 feet of a row, and then count the plants; nine times outof ten they will be much farther apart than the operatorthinks. This uneven setting will account for some of thevery undesirable large heads which some growers produce. For satisfactory work with a two-horse machine a goodsteady team is necessary and two very painstaking these last conditions good work can be done. Of TRANSPLANTINd FROM SlOIOl) HVA) TO VIKIA) 55 late a k^kkI iruiny ^;r()wors have been using i\m Mastershand (Sec Vi^r. If).). Ik;. 10.—Masters hand plantor. This is a tool llinl for ^cjirs has been uschI in the tobaccoregion. (Jf all ways to transplant cabbage the hand planter 56 LATE CABBAGE is best in my opinion; the cabbage can be rowed both waysand it does not require a lot of help and water. I neverhave seen the weather so dry that one could not go rightalong with setting when the proper time came if his fieldwas properly fitted. The Masters hand planter consists of two tubes bothof which open into a pair of steel jaws at the bottom. Onetube carries water, which can be let out with the pressureof the thumb. The other tube is the one through whichyou drop the plants. The plants are carried in a Httlebasket suspended by a string around the neck of the oper-ator. Simply place the setter where you want to weight will carry it deep enough into the loose soil;drop in the plant with your free hand, then press the waterbutton and the opera
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