Marketing.
Cabbage is a crop which may be sold for human consumption if the price is high enough, or it may be fed to stock. In the former case it is fre quently sold by the car-lot. When grown for the retail trade it may be advisable to crowd the plants, by putting more on the acre, in order to keep the size down, so that the heads may be retailed for five cents each. This would require heads weighing four to six pounds each, instead of eight or ten pounds, as might be expected ordinarily.
Exhibiting.
The important points are uniformity in size; a minimum of outside leaves to head ; a small per centage of stump to leaf when the head is cut open ; a firm head, the leaves being closely packed together and lapping over each other in the center; freedom from evidence of disease or insect injury ; true to name and type.
Literature.
Cabbages, Cauliflower, and Allied Vegetables, C. L. Allen (1902), Orange Judd Co., New York; Cabbages, How to Grow Them, J. J. H. Gregory (1881), Marblehead, Mass.; How to Grow Cab bages, Pedersen and Howard (1888), W. A. Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. ; Cabbage and Cauliflower for Profit, J. M. Lupton (1898), W. A. Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; Forage Crops, pp. 145-169, Thomas Shaw (1900), Orange Judd Co., New York; Cyclopedia of American Horticul
ture, Article on Cabbage, L. H. Bailey (1900), Macmillan Co.; Black Rot, United States Depart ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.. Farmers' Bulletin No. 68; same, Wisconsin Experiment Station, Madison, Wis., Bulletin No. 65; same, New York State Experiment Station, Geneva, N. Y., Bulletin Nos. 251, 232; Cornell Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 242 ; Vermont Experiment Station, Burlington, Vt., Bulletin No. 66. For crop management in the southern states, consult Texas Experiment Station Bulletins, Nos. 57, 69, and for other agricultural experiment station literature, consult Experiment Station Record, published by the Office of Experiment Stations, Washington, D. C.
Cacao is a small tree usually about ten to thirty feet in height, bearing its flowers and fruits on the old wood of the trunk and larger branches. The flowers are perfect and five-parted, the anthers inclosed in pockets of the petals. The means by which these are released and pollination accom plished is not definitely known. The way in which the flowers are borne, as well as their structure, would seem to point to some crawling insect as the most probable means.