. Late cabbage, from seed until harvest, also seed raising . thave a pretty fair idea of the proper kind of cabbage fromwhich to grow seed. There are greater chances to run outa strain of cabbage than to improve it. You want a strainthat is marketable, of good eating quality, and a goodproducer. The strain should not be an early ripener,nor of such tender quality that the heads will burst assoon as they commence to get hard. The heads shouldhave the leaves fold well over the tops, and when theyare cut open should look almost solid if fairly mature.(See Fig. 10, Chapter VII, and Fig. 33.) Cabba
. Late cabbage, from seed until harvest, also seed raising . thave a pretty fair idea of the proper kind of cabbage fromwhich to grow seed. There are greater chances to run outa strain of cabbage than to improve it. You want a strainthat is marketable, of good eating quality, and a goodproducer. The strain should not be an early ripener,nor of such tender quality that the heads will burst assoon as they commence to get hard. The heads shouldhave the leaves fold well over the tops, and when theyare cut open should look almost solid if fairly mature.(See Fig. 10, Chapter VII, and Fig. 33.) Cabbage havingthese last two qualities always weigh well; the stem of thecabbage should be medium length and small. It is not aneasy matter to carry in mind from year to year a correctidea of the proper type, so that the best seed stock can beselected, because cabbage vary in different years, owing to 112 SEED RAISING 113 a difference in moisture supply and varying amounts offertilizers, especially nitrogen. It takes two years to grow cabbage seed; perhaps this. Fig. 33.—Head at the right shows leaves folding well over the at the left shows poor folding. is why so few have tried to do it. Cabbage seed that willgrow good, hard heads cannot be grown in a warm climate. IMMATURE HEAD SEED PRODUCTION The cabbage head is grown the first year, and thencarried over winter in a growing condition, and the seedare grown the second season. There are two methods in practice of producing is called the mature-head method; the other theimmature-head method. The immature-head method is 114 LATE CABBAGE the one followed by most commercial growers, and doesnot permit of any head selection; therefore, there is nochance to breed up a strain. It is by far the easiest methodand the most profitable to the seed grower. Most commercial growing is done in some of the mildersections of the country, such as Long Island, and mild sec-tions in Michigan and Oregon. Under this method, the seeda
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