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or field till the middle of November without much risk, says the Indiana Farm- 

 er. About that time, prepare a trench six inches deep and of any desirable 

 length. Lift the cabbages carefully with a spade, injuring the roots as little 

 as possible, and set them in the trench close together, and fill the trench, so as 

 to leave the cabbage planted with barely the head above ground. Plant a stake 

 every five or six feet in the row, so as to support a ridge pole, and finish with a 

 good coat of straw. The cabbage will remain in a good growing condition,, 

 and the absence of light will bleach most of the green leaves, as celery is 

 bleached. When the cabbage is to be used, the heads should be cut off with a 

 knife, leaving the stalk in the ground to furnish early greens. A good rick of 

 corn fodder may be substituted for the boards and straw. 



The Farm Garden. — Most gardeners would laugh at our advice, but we 

 are now talking to farmers who have a small garden. If your garden is a 

 little pent-up affair, with a fence around it, in which your work is mostly 

 done by hand, we urge that the whole system be changed. A farmer cannot 

 afford to cultivate a garden that way. He must, to make the garden profita- 

 ble, do most of the work with a horse. It is better to have two or three rows 

 along the edge of the cornfield devoted to the smaller garden truck than to 

 have a little patch with beds in it that requires hand-labor entirely to tend it. 

 It does not make any difference if carrots, lettuce, salsify, parsnips and peppers 

 grow in one row forty rods long, if they are only grown. The reason that so 

 few farmhouses are supplied with vegetables is due to the unfortunate method 

 of gardening pursued. There are a number of farmers' gardens we see each 

 summer upon which a large portion of the contents is put in every spring and 

 the seeds sown, but after this no attention is given to it, and weeds of enor- 

 mous growth are the leading crop every season. There is one farmer of our 

 acquaintance who has half a dozen rows across a large field given up to the 

 garden, and in these he grows everything needed in the family in the way of 

 small fruits and vegetables. The horse and cultivator do most of the work 

 and the aggregate expense of caring for each row is not much more than if it 

 were planted to potatoes. In sowing seeds a great many people make the 

 mistake of planting too deep. Nearly all of the smaller garden seeds if covered 

 with a light sprinkling of fine soil and pressed down with the foot are in good 

 shape to grow. We prefer the pressure of the foot to any rolling that can be 

 done. — S. Q. Lent. 



A Succession of Beets. — A correspondent of the Kural New Yorker 

 writes that when the Egyptian beet was first introduced the Bassano was dis- 

 paraged and pushed aside. Next came the Eclipse, and the Egyptian was 

 said to be a poor kind. Notwithstanding, the Bassano is still for all eating 

 purposes, one of the best early beets we have. When putting the Eclipse on 

 its first trial, I could not help thinking, " Well, you may be everything that 

 is lovely just now, but wait a little while, and you too will be relegated to a 

 back seat." Is it really necessary to disparage and utterly condemn a good 

 old vegetable of any kind for the purpose of introducing a new one ? I think 

 there is a better way. If one should sow at the same time a row of the Eclipse, 

 the Egyptian, and the Bassano, he would have a succession of really good 

 beets. 



Horse Radish. — Charles E. Parnell is responsible for these notes on a 

 very valuable vegetable : Horse radish should be planted as early in the sea- 



