. Late cabbage, from seed until harvest, also seed raising . I will assure you that the average crop will bepoor enough if you do all you can to make it your best. Our best potato growers want seed potatoes from stockthat yields 500 or 600 bushels per acre. They have foundthat blood tells, even in potatoes. This same principleapplies to cabbage. Seed from a strain that has yielded 20to 30 tons per acre is far more valuable than seed froma strain that has never been tested out. (Fig. 3.) Suppose you purchase seed enough for two separateacres of cabbage; the seed for one acre is common stockcost
. Late cabbage, from seed until harvest, also seed raising . I will assure you that the average crop will bepoor enough if you do all you can to make it your best. Our best potato growers want seed potatoes from stockthat yields 500 or 600 bushels per acre. They have foundthat blood tells, even in potatoes. This same principleapplies to cabbage. Seed from a strain that has yielded 20to 30 tons per acre is far more valuable than seed froma strain that has never been tested out. (Fig. 3.) Suppose you purchase seed enough for two separateacres of cabbage; the seed for one acre is common stockcosting per pound, the seed for the other acre wasraised from a high-yielding strain and cost perhaps $ pound; now it will take about one-half pound of seedto insure plants enough for each acre; this makes the cost$ and $ respectively. You then set each acre,using about eight thousand plants apiece. The acre where CABBAGE SEED 9 you used the cheap ($) seed grows cabbage heads thatweigh about four pounds each, making a yield of 16 tons. Fig. 3.—Results obtained by using a high-yielding strain,in this field yielded over thirty tons per acre. Cabbage per acre. The acre where you used the high-yielding strainwill grow heads that weigh about five pounds each, mak-ing a yield of 20 tons per acre. Now then, you have 10 LATE CABBAGE gained 4 tons of cabbage per acre, worth at least $ perton. All this for the small investment of $ in a littlebetter grade of seed; this leaves a net profit of $ If it costs $ an acre to grow an acre of cabbage,one acre would cost $, and the other $, the grossreturns from the acre where the cheap seed was used wouldbe $, the net profit per acre would be the differencebetween $ and $, or $ The gross returnsfrom the acre where the better seed was used would be$ The net profit per acre would be the differencebetween $, and $, or $ I have tried this seed business ou
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