Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1873 [PAGE 100]

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96 Experiments with Early Cabbage.

These experiments were made on poor land, lightly manured with coarse horse manure, and plowed under about eight inches deep. They were planted the same day, May 8, 1872, and received the same care. The gross weight given is that of the whole plant above the stalk, the net weight that of the cabbage with the leaves trimmed off ready for market. The following list in the order of ripening have done well in the market garden and vicinity; a few little Pixie for early—two small for profit—Jersey, Wakefield, Early Wyman, Foster's Improved, Winningstadt and Schweinfurth. Winningstadt is very solid from the time it begins to head to maturity, and is very valuable on this account, as it will do to market before it is ripe. Six plants of each were set out, but as one or two plants died in some cases, the following averages are not all made from six

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1.5 1.114 10 4-124 3-144 0-144 1.64 10 5 . 7 | 4.1 1-134 10 4.15f 3-24 2.34 1 6-44 4.14 23 2-6J 1.11 0.114 23 5.54 3.13 1.84 23 4-7* 3-54 1 6-94 4-134 1-9* 1.114 1 5.10 3.9 10 6.134 3 - 1 5 | 2.1 2.134 10 2.154 1-64 l-9£

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32.3 One did not head; heads solid. 50 One did not head; one destroyed ; heads medium solid. 18 Two did not head; heads solid. 25.8 One did not head. 37.5 One did not head ; heads very solid. 35.1 Heads pretty solid. 21.5 28.5 One did not head. 35.7 26.1 [One did not head; solid when mature. 36.6 Head not very solid. 41.7 Heads very solid. 53.2 One did not head.