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Artichokes.
Agricultural Editor Morning News:
fl i Please inform me through the Morx
ixa News where seed of the White Jeru
salem artichokes may be had. (21 The
quantity necessary to plant an acre.
(3i What distance should be given be
tween rows and what distance in drill?
i4) What is a reasonable price per bushel,
the best soil to plant them in and the
best manure for them? P. L. Peacock.
Cochran, Ga.
(1) For artichoke seed (tubers) write
to J H Alexander Company. Augusta,
Ga.. or to H H. Arringtou, Summerville,
Ga.
1 2) Two to three bushels are necessary
to plant an acre, depending upon the dis
tance and the size of the cuts. Any land
suitable for corn or Irish potatoes will do
for artichokes.
(3) Kows should be three to four feet
apart, and a plant every eighteen to
twent.v-four inches in the drill. Cut the
artichokes so that there will be two eyes
to the piece.
(4i Artichokes should not command
over $1 a bushel, but seedsmen some
times demand more than that
Any good loamy soil is suitable for this
crop, and any good fertilizer suitable for
corn or potatoes will answer for it. Any
where from JOO to 700 bushels can be
taade per acre, according to the fertility
of the soil and the nature of the cultiva
tion. It is a good crop to grow when one
keeps hogs and milch cows.
Any good compost is proper to apply to
this crop.
Celery Growing’ in Chatham County.
Editor Morning News: Can you give
a novice some instruction in the planting
and cultivation of the celery? If so you
will greatly oblige a constant reader of
the Morning News, and particularly of
the agricultural department.
A Novice.
If "Novice" has not plants already on
hand to set out we fear it is too late for
him to grow any celery this year unless
he orders the plants from some northern
grower. The chances are altogether
against his growing his own plants.
The bed plan is much the best wav for
growing celery in the - south. The beds
should be 4 to 5 feet wide and any length,
and the plants should beSet Bxl2 inches
on the bed. By proper cultivation and
watering, if necessary, the crop should be
kept in steady growth for eight or ten
weeks, or longer, then with the aid of
straw they should be bleached for use.
The dwarf kinds, that are self-bleaching,
more or less, are the best to use.
Another year Novice should raise his
own plants, but it is too late to do it this
year unless he is favorably situated for
the purpose, and has the fresh seeds on
hand. It is easy enough to grow celery
in Chatham county if one understands
the full requirements of the crop and ob
serves them fully. If not. he had better
leave it alone. Several times in this col
umn we have given all necessary - advice
in regard to the matter.
If you should decide to make the at
tempt. write to the United States Seed
Company at Kalatnaoo, Mich . for plants,
or to William Tl. Maule, Philadelphia, Pa.
Commercial Fertilizers.
Ordinary commercial fertilizers differ
from barn-yard manure and composts in
three particulars, says the Southern
Farm. The latter are complete in
the sense of containing every kind of
food a plant needs. Commercial fer
tilizers contain only a few of these, but
the most important of them, barn-yard
manures, yield up their plant food con
tent slowly and continuously through
continued decomposition tor months, and
even years. Commercial fertilizers do the
same more quickly, and are sooner appro
priated and exhausted. Barn-yard ma
nures act mechanically on the soil, loosen
ing it when it is s-iff. Commercial fer
tilizers have little or no effect of this kind
on the soil. Now, it will be seen that if
two adjacent fields are manured, the one
" ith barn-yard, the other with commer
cial fertilizers, that though the yield may
be the same, tne next year the one that
bad been manured with barn-yard
manure will yield more than the one that
bad been manured with commercial ferti
lizers, because the latter were exhausted
the first year and the former were not.
The second field would show up poorly by
tne side of the first, and one not careful
111 “is deductions might say that the first
was improved and the second injured by
fertilizers applied, whilst in reality
the difference might be due wholly to the
residuum 'of the barn-yard manure
m the one case and the absence of
s c h residuum in the case of the commer
fertilizer. Again the productiveness
01 a soil depends largely upon its mechan
-1 al condition. If soft and pliable, ab
sorptive and retentive of moisture, it is
more productive than when close and
'ornpact and disposed to run together and
to bake. Now, barnyard manure tends to
develop the former qualities and prevent,
the latter. Commercial fertilizers do
neither. Hence, in contrast again com
mercial fertilizers mig.t be supposed to
“ave injured land, whilst in reality they
ave not injured, but only failed to im
prove.
It has been already stated that ordi
nary commercial fertilizers contain a few
' ■■ly of the food substances required by
Plants, or if they contain all, some of
norn will be in disproportionately small
'. Entity. Hence, when they are used
( o -op has lo supply things in which the
, rtilizer is deficient, and unless these
""*• very abundant In the soil they are
'■wly, in time to become exhausted. In
"at event, the continued application of
'unitai-r ml fertilizers will fall to bring
v" 1 crops, and again, the fertilizer
U“*. nt be supposed to have injured the
, ‘J True, the soil it exhausted, but the
firmer lias luml an equivalent in the
' ' ,IS taboo from it. Just as when land
' topped year after year without
oi, ire. j t j* a i,o tmal!y
.* *and the crops taken
~ **• *• present the lost fertility. The
r oinajcrcisl fertilizers alone on a (
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soil not originally fertile (that is not
abounding in all kinds of plant food) will
cause such land to be exhausted sooner
than if it had been cropped without fer
tilizers. but it would simply be a case ot a
few large crops (with fertilizers) against
a larger number of small crops (without
fertilizer). The final result is the same
in both—the time required to produce it
different. The final exhaustion being the
same, would it not be better to get UK)
bushels of corn from an acre in one year
than to get the same amount from ten
successive crops.
The opinion that commercial fertilizers
are injurious to land may have originated
in such reasoning as has been given
above, or it may have arisen from the
idea that anything which could eat up
sacks and barrels would be hurtful to
the soil—that there was so much oil of
vitriol in them as to be injurious. But
strong, unleached ashes, if damp would
eat up saeksalso, and yet ashes when not
used in excess, and properly distributed,
are regarded on all sides as an excellent
fertilizer. There is a little free acid,
possibly, or a little acid salt, as the chem
ist terms it, in the so-called acid phos
phate. but the amount is small and the
quantity usually applied to an acre could
not possibly hurt growing plants. The ef
fect upon the soil itself is probably
beneficial; acting upon the un
decomposed particles of minerals in
the soil, it would probably break
them dovvn and make their con
tents valuable to plants. It would tend
to fix any ammonia it might meet in the
soil and hold it as a sulphate of ammonia,
one of the best ammoniacal fertilizers we
have. But the most of the acid used in
the manufacture of phosphates unites
with the lime in the phosphate rock or in
bones, and makes land plaster. Nearly
all of it takes that direction, but we have
never heard of plaster injuring land. We
do not see any good reason why commer
cial fertilizers should injure land. We
do see. however, a good deal of
injury they can do the farmer who
uses them injudiciously. They may
burn up his crops if used too
freely on old land, deficient in humus and
badly prepared and cultivated. They can
injure crops and fail to pay when used in
too large quantity in the drill without be
ing diluted or mixed with the soil, and
they can do immense injury when a farmer
is induced to relv on them alone, and not
to gather and husband all available ma
nural substances on his farm Used in
connection with a rotation of crops which
insures a full supply of humu3 in the soil;
used as supplementary to barnyard ma
nure and the compost heap; used with
good judgment as to {quantity and mode
of application, commercial fertilizers will
always occupy an important place in
highly developed agriculture.
Peach Culture.
In setting out young peach trees plenty
of space should be allowed between the
rows and between the trees, says the
American Cultivator. According to the
old method of raising peach trees, less at
tention was given to space between the
trees, because the branches were allowed
to run uf> straight, just as all peach trees
do if left to themselves. The modern
grower, however, never allows his trees
to take this narrow, spindling growth.
The trees are trained to lower heads and
spreading branches, consequently cover
ing more ground with their branches and
needing more space between them.
Peach trees that are trained to take on
a low growth somewhat similar to the
apple trees, produce more fruit, better
quality, and better resist dry weather
and disease. They shade the ground
more thoroughly around the trunk, and
the foliage protects the fruit on the lower
branches from the fierce heat of the sun.
The fruit is produced abuudantly on all
of the lower branches, and they can be
picked much easier than by the old
method. If the branches reach almost to
the ground they may interfere a little
with horse cultivation of the orchards.
But this is a small point. One can get
into the trees easier to prune them and to
-disbud the new growth when too prolific
with fruit. Altogether the low-headed
system of cultivating the peach trees is a
great advance upon the old system.
In order to train the peach treqs accord
ing to the low system, work must begin
early upon them to check their head
growth and to make the branches spread.
The trees at the beginning should be
atout a year old. In same nurseries old
trees can be obtained that have
been trained according to this low
system from the very beginning, and
then it is better to take old
er trees. They are always pre
ferable where the training has
been started by the nurseryman. By
pinching back the top of the young trees,
or by persistently cutting off the head,
the lateral branches will begin to spread
out. The top branches will naturally
take the most growth, and will spread
much faster than the lower ones. Many
■of them will have to be pinehed back in
order to send the strength and vitality of
the trees into the lower ones. By such a
system of training the trees will assume
a more rounded, dwarfed, bushy appear
ance. and there will be more square yards
of branches on which peaches can be
produced than if the tree is allowed to
run straight up into the air. By observ
ing two trees grown by the different
methods, one would be readily convinced
of the superiority of the low-headed sys
tem.
There is no doubt but this modern sys
tem also makes the vigor of the'trees
greater, and enables them to resist the
cold in the winter. P'orce and strength
are conserved by this compact way of
growing, and the foliage and branches
cun resist cold winds better than when
they are spread out over a larger surface.
In cold climates, where peach growing is
somewhat precarious, experiments should
he made to test this question.
Green manuring.
From Farmers' Bulletin United States De
partment of Agriculture.
Green manuring, or plowing under
green crops raised for that purpose, is
one of the oldest means of improving the
fertility of the soil. It was advocated by
Koraanwriters more than 2,000 years ago,
and from that time until now it has
formed a most imi>ortant resource of the
farmer, especially where the supply of
barnyard manure is insufficient. Its ad
vantages are many. The more striking
arc that it furnishes the surface soil with
a supply of the fertilizing materials
needed by crops. Increases the humus,
nnd Improves the physical qualities and
the tilth of the soil. Asa humus-former
green manuring stands next to barnyard
manure.
By means of green manuring, land
which Is practically barren may lie
brought up lo a slate of fertility wuere it
will produce profitable eeo|>s. As a sin
gle Instance of this uisy he mentioned
ihr experiments carried on by the Michi
gan exf eriment station oo the Ja< k- |
plus pia.us" of that state, in ISM *v-
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. JULY :iO, 1804.
periments were undertaken on the light
sandy, almost barren, soils of those
plains. Green manures were used
mainly, supplemented by cheap fertiliz
ers. In three .years marked improve
ment was evident, not only in the physi
cal character of the soil, but also in the
increased yields of various crops.
Again, green manuring may be used to
take the place of more expensive fertili
zers and manures on soils already under
cultivation. It is in this latter use that
it finds its widest application.
There has been much speculation as to
the manner in which the crops commonly
used for green maturing could gather
such large quantities of fertilizing ma
terials. It will he remembered that the
principal fertilizing ingredients required
by plants are nitrogen, phosphoric acid
and potash. They are each and all more
or less essential to the healthy growth of
crops. Consequently they are applied to
the soil in the form of commer
cial fertilizers and other manures,
lu attempting to explain how the
fertility of the soil is maintained by
green manuring it has been said that
plants with long roots, like clovers, feed
deep down into the soil or subsoil on ma
terials beyond the reach of surface
feeding plants; and that when the tops of
these plants die down and are mixed
with the surface sail they enrich it
much the same as an application of barn
yard manure. This is undoubtedly true,
but it fails to explain how such large
quantities of materials can be obtained,
especially l when clover is grown con
tinuously for a number of years.
The question has finally been
solved by one of the most inter
esting and important discoveries yet
made in agricultural science. It has
been found that certain plants can feed
upon the nitrogen in the atmosphere and
store it up in their tissues as they grow.
They take their phosphoric acid - and
potash from the soil, but they obtain
their nitrogen very largely from the air.
Hence, they draw from the air a mate
rial necessary to the growth of crops,
which, in the form of commercial fer
tilizers. as nitrate of soda, ammonium
sulphate, dried blood, etc., is paid for at
the rate of from 15 to 20 cents a pound.
A FORTUNE IN HORSE RADISH.
A Jersey Farmer Making Money From
the Tear-Producing Root.
J. Wesley Drake is making a small for
tune out of horse radish, says a New Jer
sey correspondent of the Globe-Democrat.
He may properly be called the horse rad
ish expert of the country. He has made
a study of the tear-producing root, and
cultivates it on a scientific plan. Asa
matter of fact, he is a regular enthusiast
on the subject. He claims to be the first
man to put horse radish on the market
for general consumption. He did this in
Buffalo, and afterward in Newark. He
condemns the ordinary bottled horse rad
ish, because he claims it is adulterated
with grated white turnips, so that it
won’t seem so unpleasantly strong.
He asserts that he has established a
horse radish industry, but laments the
fact that the plant is so little.known. Ho
considers it the most valuable plant in the
vegetable kingdom, and highly medicinal
in its qualities. He says the bulk of the
product sold in New York is raised on the
meadows of Long Island oy Germans,
who combine the raising of it with other
agricultural pursuits.
In enumerating its value, Mr. Drake
says it is beneficial to the stomach, puri
fies the blood, relieves rheumatism and if
eaten regularly will prevent grip or euro
it when it takes hold. Any sick person
can use it with benefit, and no well per
son has ever used it with evil
results Asa poultice its soothing
qualities are marvelous. For horses
it is an excellent corrective. Some
horses are fond of it. while others
object to it on account of its strength. A
little of it put in the pickle will preserve
meat and prevent pickles from getting
moldy. And Mr. Drake offers a sugges
tion to those that find its strength un
bearable. This is caused by using it too
soon after being gathered. It should first
be scraped and prated and then allowed
to stand exposed to the air, which re
lieves the strength. Then enough pure
cider vinegar is poured over to moisten.
It should not be saturated. A pinch of
salt or sugar improves the flavor for some
tastes, but both may be omitted if de
sired.
The idea of starting the horse radish
farm at Flanders was to secure indepen
dence of the other high-priced producers,
and get better material to work with
Mr. Drake has been paying at the rate of
Sl6O a ton for the root, or lOeents a pound
in less quantity, which is the spring and
summer price.
Tne method of cultivation is this:
When the roots are plowed out in the
fall shake off the small fibers, or minia
ture roots, that cling to the mother plant.
These are termed seed or plants.
They are set out in the spring early,
in a similar manner to cab
bage or beets. They are planted in
rows in good loam or sandy soil. The
plants mature b.v fall. When the roots
are plowed out they can be buried in pits
like turnips, carrots, etc. Mr. Drake
finds that by judicious cultivation the
piant can be made to pay a profit of 3
cents a pound.
Horse radish, if planted in the right
kind of soil, will jyrow in any part of this
country, but it must be carefully culti
vated to bring good results. When it is
stated that Mr. Drake has paid all the
way from 3 cents to 20 cents a pound for
the root, it will be seen that the pric e
fluctuates to an unusual extent. That is
wh.v he conceived the idea of becoming
his own grower.
H ard to Fatten a Leghorn.
The kind of food that will cause one
breed to lay an abundance of eggs will
produce the same result in another. But,
if have an abundance of food
before them at all times they will seldom
become overfat, on account of their
sprightly and roving disposition, and will
c onvert a large amount of food into quan
tities of eggs, but with the large breeds
this method of feeding would produce
overfattiess. The consequent sluggish
ness of body and egg organs would co-op
erate with their natural broodiness ro
reduce the egg yield. Tho quantity fed
to the large breeds should be regulated
so as lo keep the birds down to
a business weight. Some strains
of the heavier fowls made large egg rec
ords. and it is reasonable to suppose that
rarefuf selection, breeding and feeding
for eggs will make good layers of almost
any variety. In cue of large breeds, an
Increase of green food might dilute the
. oueentrated ration, and tend to keep tho
birds in s business rendition iMceul
experiment* at Cornell show that a diet
of corn produces fat hens and few eggs, a
nitrogenous diet, many eggs though
smaller and in uualily not so rich as the
others A standard ration lor all bread*
then, should be composed of bran, mm
dlings. cotton-seed meal, meat and bone,
either fresh or in the prepared state,
together with wheat and oats with
little barley and corn For
green food they should have cabbage to
pick at in winter and clover in summer,
whenever they can be had. boiled roots,
tubers aud beans. Feed regularly,, three
times per day no more than will beeaten
up clean within four or five minutes.
Keep up this method the year around,
making no special change at tbe moulting
season. At that tune some of the foo l
elements (among them nitrogen) instead
of going into the eggs are turned in the
direction of feather making. When the
feathers are made the eggs will appear in
due time. Occasional doses of condition
powder will regulate thes.vstem, arfd cure
some diseases, but condition powdbr and
straw will not make eggs.
About Chicken Cholera.
This is the season of the year, says the
Tennessee Farmer, when, disease, sud
den and mysterious, thins out the farm
er's fiock of chickens. It is tire time
when a chicken well to day is found dead
to-morrow. It is now that strange, and
but little understood disease called chol
era. prevails among the fowls. June,
July and August are all goo 1 months
for cholera, for it is a sum
mer disease chiefly ,Aud yet, chicken
cholera is not borne on the wings of the
wind, and it don’t steal, in through the
cracks in the fence at the chicken house.
A chicken must eat something to give it
the cholera, and that something must be
other than clean sound grain, water and
bugs or grass. Neither of those will
cause cholera. It comes of impurity that
is taken inwardly.
Fowls kept in close pens where they
can get nothing to eat excepting that
wnich their keeper gives them, never
have the cholera. Tnis fact has been
noted and commented upon a great deal
by observant poultrymen. Fowls kept in
the city where they have clean, open
yards to run in, and not allowed to go into
the back alleys where the garbage and
trash is frequently thrown, seldom, if
ever have the cholera But. those that
have tbe free range of the alleys usually
die off with tbe cholera during the sum
mer season. Likewise the chickens on
the farm where they range as they please,
usually fall victims to the dread disease
when the weather is hot,
The head and entrails and other refuse
from fowls killed for the table, that are
so often thrown in the fence corners
among tbe high weeds, is often the fuel
that starts the flame. Such refuse is
often found and eaten, after it has begun
to decay, by the other fowls on the place,
and thus the cholera is started.
We knew of some boys starting the
chicken cholera once by throwing stones
at a setting hen. Her nest was under
some loose brush in the weeds, and she
was about to hatch when the boys dis
covered her; and with tbe spirit
of meanness that beys often possess,
began throwing rocks at her. They
scared her off the nest, and
crushed the eggs with the living chick
ens within tbe shells The weather was
hot and the embryo chickens soon began
to decompose, and to be infested with
maggots. The fowls on the place dis
covered the nest and were soon pecking
about, eating the worms. In less than a
half a day.
A DOZEN HAD THE CHOLEHA
And nearly all the flock perished from
that single cause. This shows how very
ne. cssar.v it is to bury all refuse animal
matter, and waste meats of all kinds on
the premises during warm weather.
Chickens can much better endure a
dirty hen house than they can something
dead in the weeds. The latter is the trap
that catches them and starts the cholera.
Better keep the wee Is down. Have no
unexplored comers within the chicken
yard or where they range. There Is no
reason why the chickens should die with
the cholera, and they will not die if the
place where they run is kept clean.
Don't talk of remedies for chicken
cholera. Let that pass. Take action in
time and apply the ounce of preven
tive.
WILD HOGS IN ARIZONA.
Many Thousand Degenerate Progeny
of Aristocratic Porcine Ancestry.
From the San Framlsco Chronicle.
The wildest of wild hogs live both above
and below Yuma, on the Colorado river.
While the steamer was lying at Ca3tle
Dome landing a few days since, loading
with ore, a fine band of them on the op
posite shore came down the river to feed
on the banks, where tho grass and weeds
were green, and to get a drink of tho
water. They paid no attention to the
boat or to tho Indians at work. After
loafing around for a while an old boar
came out of the brush, and. on spying us,
gave a ‘ swish,” and away they ail went.
Hardly a day passes that the Indians and
cattlemen do not run upon them..
These bands seem to be more timid
than ugly. When the late Thomas Blythe
was trying to settle a colony at Lerdo,
forty-flvfe miles below Yuma, on the Col
orado, he sent down a large number of
very fine full-blooded Berkshire and Po
land China pigs, and turned them loose on
the banks of the river near Lerdo, where
they lived on tho roots, grass, weeds,
tules and mesquite beans; bred, multi
plied, Kept fat, and filled the low and
tule lands with a large number of fine
porkers. Never seeing a human being,
except now and then a lone Indian, they
soon became wild, and wilder still, anil
scattered until the lowlands and woods
full of them. Notwithstanding that
the coyotes slaughtered the little oues in
great numbers, they have increased until
it is estimated that at the present time
there are more than 10.000 of them roam
ing up and down the Colorado and Hardie
rivers, from their mouths up as high as
the tide runs, or from sixty-five to seventy
miles this side of tbe gulf.
They go wherever they please; nothing
stops them in their course When the
Colorado is at its flood they will cross it
from shore to shore, even near the Har
die, where it is four miles wide when at
its highest gauge. Their range gives
them the finest of feed—wild, sweet po
tatoes, tules, stray fish, clams, dead tur
tles and seaweed along the river bank at
low tide. They are unmolested, except
now and then b.v a hunter wlio finds his
way down the river. Most of the hunters
give the wild swine a wide berth, except
now and then as they happen to spy a
nice little rooster on the bank and within
easy rifle shot.
A few years ago a man and his family
were living a few miles below the colony,
on the bank of the Colorado. He had a
pair of very fine, large staghounds. which
the owner claimed could run down an.l
kill any wild hog in that region. One day
he took dogs and rifle and went for a nice
little one, just right for the oven. He had
not gone far before he found a large band
of hogs, and turned his dogs loose on
them. No sooner had they started, when
out of the tules near by jumped an enor
mous boar, a monster, who, with mouth
wide ojien, paying no attention to tho
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dogs, made for the hunter. The latter
drew up his rifle and fired, but on came
the boar, the dogs nipping him at eiery
jump. The hunter fired a second shot,
but on nine the beast The hunter
turned and ran for a mesquite tree a few
yards distant, the hog close to his heels.
He dropped his gun and
jumped for life, grasping the limb of the
tree just as the hog grabbed his pants
and tore one half of them from him, but
he was safe, just out out of reach. The
dogs all this while rau grabbing the hog
by the hind legs, to which the beast paid
no attention. The mad boar seized the
bark of the tree in his great tusks and
tore it into shreds. Finally he turned
upon the dogs, instantly killed one and
wounded the other so that he died soon
after He then turned his attention to
the tree where sat the hunter He
guarded him until it was dark. Twice
did the mau get down and try tp get his
rifle. hut his foe was on guard and drove
him back up the tree. During the night
the boar left. Daylight earae and so did
help. The men had hardly reached the
river and got in their boat when down
came the old hog after them in vain pur
suit.
Notes on Southern Celery Growing.
Our summer and autumn droughts pre
sent such serious obstacles to the growing
of celery successfully, it is the reason
why so little southern grown is found ill
our markets. It is a vegetable that re
quires for its best development moist,
bottom soils that are naturally rich in all
the elements of plant food. Celery is a
marsh plant, in tact, and demands a con
stant supply of water during the season
of growth In hot weather the evapora
tion from its leaves is very great anu un
less this loss is promptly replaced the
plant soon wilts, and receives a set back
from which it recovers slowly.
It requires great care and watchful
ness in the attempt to grow it with any
degree of success on dry uplands, and it
must be admitted, the ma.ority of gardfcn
ers in the south have heretofore failed to
make it a profitable crop. Most of them
conclude sooner or later that the crop
costs more than it comes to, taking the
seasons ns they come.
This refers to summer or late spring
set celery which is intended for fall and
early winter maturity. There is no ques
tion that it can be grown with some de
gree of success under a system of mulch
ing and irrigation, of watering, but tke
generality of gardeners with us are not
painstaking enough to make anything like
a great success of the work.
A plant so useful as celery should be
grown in every garden, even if it is not
blanched for market purposes. It is not
necessary to tell those who have had ex
perience that the process of blanching
with soil in our average dry and hot au
tumns causes the loss of much pelery that
had been very promising up to that time.
There is no need for blanching celery
that is only used for seasoning or that is
to be cooked and served like asparagus.
But few persons comparatively are aware
what a choice dish cooked celery makes
when properly cooked and served with
butter, pepper, etc. It is generally used
with us as a raw salad, simply eaten with
salt. When bleached and used while
fresh and crisp it is a dish always rel
ished by cultivated tastes and, as is well
known, possesses a therapeutic value in
nearly all cases of nervous disorder.
The old time way of growing celery
was to set out the plants, in late spring
or early summer, in deep trenches that
had been dug out and manured a few
weeks previously. The tall growing kinds
were mostly used, and the trenches made
B}to 4 feet apart. This plan has been
greatly modified of late years, and the
course, tall, half hollow sort entirely dis
carded along with the deep trenches.
The tall varieties still grown, mostly in
the northwest, are crisp and solid, but
the kinds usually grown by amateurs
especially, are the dwarf and half dwarf
varieties, such as the Boston Market,
Golden Dwarf, White Plume, Crawford's
Half Dwarf. There is also a red variety
much liked by some. Of course, new
names are added every year, but the
above embrace the most desirable kinds.
There is the Mammoth Solid for those
who prefer the large kind. These dwarf
kinds are set closely in furrows made by
the plow, not deeper than 3 or 4 inches in
rows ay, to 3 feet apart, and by judicious
cultivation kept growing until Septem
ber, when the dirt is gradually drawn to
the plants and the process of blanching
begun.
The bed system is best in small gar
dens. Beds, 3to 3t; feet wide, and long
as desired, deeply broken, well manured
if necessary, with some non heating man
ure and well raked, is prepared in due
time for the plants, which should be of
good size to transplant by March 15, for
the earliest crop, and other plants should
be held in reserve, or a late sowing of
seed made for transplanting in May or
June. Feed sown this month, and the
plants not pushed by cultivation, will fur
nish the plants in proper time for the late
crop. When ready to set out, level the
beds and roll slightly, and carefully set
too selected plants in the bed 10x12 inches
apart. Press the soil firmly to the roots and
apply enough water to insure the rapid
formation o: new roots. The plants once
well established, only shallow hoeiug,
sufficient to keep the grass and weeds in
check, should be given until the summer
heat sets in; then between the plants
should be well mulched with pine straw,
handling the celery so that only the
leaves are exposed to the sun. During
protracted dry weather water must be
supplied if the plants show the least dis
position to wilt. Later in the fall addi
tional mulching, for the purpose of
blanching, must be given. Blanching
can be secured with the use only of straw,
and old newspapers may be called into
use to lightly enfold the plants. Bleach
ing with soil is to be avoided whenever
practicable.
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