Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1916 — SIX-YEAR CABBAGE TEST OF INTEREST [ARTICLE]

SIX-YEAR CABBAGE TEST OF INTEREST

Practically No Difference Shown in Yield Between the Small and Large Plants. When seed is sown either in drills or broadcast, some of the seedlings will make a more rapid growth than others. Because of the belief that larger plants possess some inherent characteristics which enable them to outdistance their neighbors, thus becoming superior, many cabbage growers discard a number of plants which are under size. , -An experiment, which has been conducted for six years at the Pennsylvania State college school of agriculture and experiment station to determine the variation in yield and productiveness between large and small cabbage plants, showed that there was practically no difference in this respect, regardless of whether the grading was done at the time of the first transplanting or when the field planting was made. There was approximately an inch of difference in the height of the plants at the time of making the field planting, which soon disappeared.