. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. 222 CABBAGE CABBAGE The first four groups are grown for stock-feed- ing as well as for human consumption. The last two are grown exclusively for table use. Cabbages have been cultivated from time imme- morial for human food. The Greek writers do not mention the head cabbage, but Columella and Pliny do, although it is believed that they referred to some soft-headed form. The hard- headed form was in use in England in the four- teenth century, and is mentione
. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. 222 CABBAGE CABBAGE The first four groups are grown for stock-feed- ing as well as for human consumption. The last two are grown exclusively for table use. Cabbages have been cultivated from time imme- morial for human food. The Greek writers do not mention the head cabbage, but Columella and Pliny do, although it is believed that they referred to some soft-headed form. The hard- headed form was in use in England in the four- teenth century, and is mentioned as a New' England product in the poem attributed to Gov- ernor Bradford, written in 1656. Composition. The average composition usually given for cab- bages is water per cent and dry matter per cent. In twenty-two analyses of five varieties made at Cornell University during 1904-1906, the average dry matter content varied between and per cent, an average considerably below that usually given. The content of protein is high, the per cent of dry matter being made up of ash per cent, protein per cent, crude fiber per cent, nitrogen-free extract per cent, ether extract per cent. Propagation and cultivation. The plant may be grown successfully on any soil that is in good condition. It is a gross feeder, and care must be taken to supply it with an abun- dant but not excessive supply of moisture and to keep the land well stirred. Rich, heavy loams are to be preferred for the production of heavy yields. Fig. 316. Types of cabbage heads. Left, compact head; right, loose head. for cattle-feeding. Deep fall-plowing is advisable, and the land should be loose, friable and moist; an application of ten to twenty tons of manure per acre may be made in the fall before plowing, and this may be supplemented by fertilizers, and, if the land has not been limed recently, by an application at the rate of 1,000 pounds of quicklime per acre, to be applied in
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