The Jasper Weekly Courier

Salt for Cabbage.—A correspondent of the Farmer and Gardener tested the value of salt on cabbages, and with satisfactory results. After planting them out he watered them some two or three times a week with salt water, containing about fifteen grains of salt to the pint. The cabbages grew beautifully, and headed up very finely; while those which had no salt water given them produced loose, open heads, which were unfit for any other purpose than boiling. Rain water was given at the same time and in the same quantities as the salt water. He does not know how strong a solution of salt the cabbages would bear without injury, but is fully satisfied that a solution no stronger than that he used is decidedly beneficial.