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Title: Late cabbage, from seed until harvest, also seed raising
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Reed, Ellis Nelson, 1884-
Subjects: Cabbage
Publisher: New York, John Wiley & sons, inc. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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lumpy,loose soil often will not germinate because of the lack ofmoisture; should it germinate under such conditions thereis danger of losing many of them by the soil drying outbefore the plant gets deeply rooted. Do not plant toodeep. The soil should be well firmed around the seed toinsure proper moisture for germination. Seed sown justbefore a heavy rain do not come through the surface crustas readily, because they often do not have strength enoughin their slender stems to lift it. Cabbage seed may be sown too early in the seasonbefore the weather conditions are suitable to its germina-tion; better plants will be obtained if sowing is put off until 18 LATE CABBAGE ground and weather conditions are suitable. Often seed-lings are destroyed by insects shortly after they comethrough the ground. TREATING CABBAGE SEED FOR DISEASE As a safeguard against introducing several very de-structive cabbage diseases, one should always treat hisseed with a solution of Bichloride of Mercury (Corrosive
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Fig. 4.—Not a healthy head was harvested from this field,merit would have prevented this loss. Seed treat- Sublimate) before sowing. (Fig. 4.) As heretofore men-tioned, cabbage seed have an oily seed coat to which diseasegerms will adhere and be carried from one year to another. LOCATING AND SOWING A CABBAGE SEED BED 19 If there were any disease in the stock from which the seedwere produced, this disease will be very likely to be foundupon the cabbage seed. When cabbage seeds are threshed the whole plant ispretty well ground up, so that if there were any disease,the seed would be pretty apt to have some sticking on itsoily seed coat. One of my neighbors last year lost 11 acres simplybecause he failed to treat his seed. The damage does notstop here, for he has his ground infested with disease,which will carry for many years to come. This man solda great many thousand plants to others, and of coursethey all had failures. Perhaps it would be a very goodquestion to ask when buying plant

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