. Vegetable gardening. A manual on the growing of vegetables for home use and marketing . ease in thissection, but in some of the Eastern and Middle states it is verycommon. The best way of avoiding it is to not use the same landlor cabbage or similar crop without at least three ye^rs interven-ing, during which time it is preferable to have the land in grassor clover. This disease is also transmitted by Pepper Cress,Shepherds Purse, Candytuft and similar plants. This diseasemay also be distributed in manure from animals fed on diseasedplants. Black Rot of Cabbage is a disease that has not attr
. Vegetable gardening. A manual on the growing of vegetables for home use and marketing . ease in thissection, but in some of the Eastern and Middle states it is verycommon. The best way of avoiding it is to not use the same landlor cabbage or similar crop without at least three ye^rs interven-ing, during which time it is preferable to have the land in grassor clover. This disease is also transmitted by Pepper Cress,Shepherds Purse, Candytuft and similar plants. This diseasemay also be distributed in manure from animals fed on diseasedplants. Black Rot of Cabbage is a disease that has not attractedmuch attention until the last few years but has during that timecaused much damage to cabbage and cauliflower. The first indication of this disease is upon the outer leavesof the plant which turn yellow and die in spots usually near themargins. Such leaves are also liable to wilt and careful exami-nation will show that the veins in and near the dead areas areblackened. These spots enlarge and gradually involve the wholeleaf, from which it passes to the stem and to the rest of the. moth Red Rock. The Savoysare of better quality than theordinary drumheads but do netproduce so heavily. Iney aredesirable for home use. Thebest of this class is the Ameri-can Drumhead Savoy. Insects.—The insects in:uri-ous to the cabbage are the flea CABBAGE. 153 plant, causing it to rot. The dark colored veins in the freshly-cut stem and leaves are the best indications of this disease andare its characteristic marks. Cabbage that is even slightly affected will not keep, for this•ot spreads rapidly in stored cabbage, and in selecting cabbagefor storage, the stems and outer leaves should be examined forthe blackened vein so characteristic of this disease. The germs ot the disease may pass the winter In the soi!and reinfect cabbage, cauliflower, turnips or similar crops anr*even such nearly allied weeds as Pepper Cress and ShepherdsPurse the following season. If diseased cabbage is fed to stock
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