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inches of the ground, and they will come on again and make fine 

 fall greens till it freezes up. 



Celery should be in fine shape during both these months, using 

 the white varieties and boarding up during hot weather. Late fall 

 and winter celery can be planted where the early potatoes have 

 been dug, using the green varieties, which have a thicker leaf and 

 keep better. Never try to bleach them with boards. The cool fall 

 weather will make it best to bank with dirt, and as frost and light 

 freezing comes on the dirt will protect the plants. The leaf blight 

 often bothers, and happy is the man who doesn't have it to fight. 

 The Bordeaux mixture used as a preventative sometimes helps. 



Mr. H. J. Baldwin goes to market. 



The cabbage is a vegetable that interests us all. While we all 

 want to get them as soon as we can, yet we all want a good supply 

 on hand for fall and winter. We are at times disgusted with the 

 Holland, as it is so bad to stump rot. The round or flat cabbage are 

 easier to handle on account of the worms, and none other are so 

 good for early use as a variety called Discovery, as hard as Hol- 

 land, sure header and early enough. I notice, too, that it will grow 

 planted for late use by sowing seed as late as June ist. A test for 

 late cabbage of Holland and Illinois Winter, all in the same patch, 

 showed the Holland a miserable failure, and hardly a head missing 



