Club root and your soil

 CLUB OR STUMP FOOT AND MAGGOT.

There is one sure way of avoiding cabbage root disease and that is to take care of your soil.

Follow a soil  rotation that leaves as much time as possible between each crop. This gap should be at least  three years.Also do not grow cabbage on land that is too rich in farmyard manure.

This manure thing is a difficult one for another position taken by Stephens in his "Book of the Farm,"  He puts forth the theory that "all such diseases arise from poverty of the soil, either from want of manure when the soil is naturally poor, or rendered dull by over-cropping." 

The best manure, according to Stephens, is twelve cords ( a measurement of wood in cubic feet ) of sea kelp to the acre. Sea kelp is better and stronger then farmyard manure, however you have to be near a beach to get some.

To avoid club root your must keep your soil well limed and the best lime to get is not made from marine shell but from bones which will be a better composite phosphate. 

It is suggested  the protection from club root is afforded by the presence of some alkali that old gardens are constantly acquiring through house waste which is always finding its way to the garden, particularly the slops from the sink, which abound in potash. This is rendered better land,  because it is full of naturally abounding  lime, cabbage can be raised year after year with almost full immunity from stump foot. 

 Another way to have soil that is free from club root is to spread two hundred bushels of un-leached ashes per acre, three-fourths broadcast but do make sure that it is pure wood ash.

As a warning do not use pig manure on land that you are going cabbage