Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1877 — Salt for Cabbage. [ARTICLE]

Salt for Cabbage.

A New Jersey gaiijener, in The Fruit Recorder considers stilt necessary to .the development of cabbage, especially in places far from the coast. He finds them note crisp, of better flavor, and to keep better when salt is used t han without. He uses it as follows: A few days aftersettingoutthe plants anil when they hie damp, either after a raid or when the dew is on, I take a small dish of fine salt, and, walking among the rows, sprinkling a pinch of salt on the center of each plant. When the leaves begin to grow I repeat the salting, and when the center of the leaves liegin to form the head I apply salt again, scattering it over the leaves. Alter this I look over them occasionally; and if I find plants that do not head well or appear diseased I sj winkle the salt over freely. This will save all such plants. A quart of salt is sufficient for five hundred plants in a season, although more can be used with safety. .