. The garden book, a popular treatise on the growing of vegetables under both home and market conditions. Containing concise and dependable information concerning the planting, cultivation, spraying, harvesting and marketing the common garden vegetables in such manner as to secure the largest measure of satisfaction, pleasure and profit. Vegetable gardening. .<r' LEADING VEGETABLE CROPS I3I should never be cut until solid, except in very late fall when danger of freezing threatens. When sent to distant markets cabbages are packed in ven- tilated barrels or in double compartment crates. The
. The garden book, a popular treatise on the growing of vegetables under both home and market conditions. Containing concise and dependable information concerning the planting, cultivation, spraying, harvesting and marketing the common garden vegetables in such manner as to secure the largest measure of satisfaction, pleasure and profit. Vegetable gardening. .<r' LEADING VEGETABLE CROPS I3I should never be cut until solid, except in very late fall when danger of freezing threatens. When sent to distant markets cabbages are packed in ven- tilated barrels or in double compartment crates. The early cabbage is sometimes shipped in basket hampers. Early cabbage deteriorates more rapidly than later cabbage on account of its incomplete de- velopment and the season in which it must be handled. In the close markets cabbage is usually handled in bulk in a satisfactory manner. The larger per cent of the late crop is grown primarily for storage purposes and is sold during winter and early spring. Successful storing de- pends largely upon the variety ^^^ and the method employed. There are various ways of storing cab- bage, but the most cabbage stored in pit for winter common one is in pits. These pits are prepared by digging a trench in some well-drained location from two to three feet in width and about as deep as the heads to be buried. From two to five heads are placed in the bottom of the trench with the stems up. All the leaves, except any showing decay, are left on the plant and wrapped closely about the head. The next layer is placed on top of the first in such a way as to break joints. This makes a pile of conical shape satisfactory for cov- ering. After packing the heads together in the above fashion they are covered with sufficient dirt to prevent severe freezing. As cold weather comes on, more covering is added in the way of straw, corn fodder or other similar material to prevent. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have be
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