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About the middle of July it is ready for bleaching, and about a month after 
that it is ready for market. The way I bleach celery is to take ten-inch 
boards and set one on each side, as close up to the celery as I can, and nail 
about three cleats across to hold the boards together. I still keep the water 
running in the rows. 
It is impossible to try and grow celery in this manner without irriga- 
tion. If you have pretty well decayed manure you can grow celery in the 
new way for private use with but very little water. 
I have heard that you could grow fine celery on black, mucky, low land, 
and I have some of that, too. In fact, I have all kinds of soil. I thought last 
summer I would try some celery on the black muck. I plowed under a lot of 
old manure, and kept the water on it from the spring, just as I did on the 
other celery planted the new way, but I got an inferior celery all the same. 
In growing celery with manure and water, as you may call it, it grows up so 
quick, and that is what makes it so white and tender. It is way ahead of 
any other celery, that is what everybody says—and, furthermore, it was the 
finest celery exhibited at the state fair. 
There is another thing I will say to you about this new way of growing 
celery with plenty of water and plenty of manure, you can grow better celery 
in clear sand than on any other soil. I have a piece of ground next to the 
river where there is nothing but sand, and that is where I raise the very 
finest celery. 
A year ago this summer I thought I would try another experiment, to 
try and kill two birds with one stone; that is, I thought I would see if I 
could not grow almost double the amount of celery on the same amount 
of ground. I went to work and set out one double row; six inches apart 
each way, and by the use of the same amount of water and the same work 
with the exception of planiing two rows in place of one. By the time the 
celery was ready for market, I had just as good celery on that row as from 
the single row. Last summer I planted all of my celery that way, and it is a 
great saving of labor, in place of the single row system. 
IS A FARM HOUSE ENTITLED TO INCUR THE EX- 
TRAVAGANCE OF A LAWN? 
MISS LUCIA E. DANFORTH, NORTHFIELD. 
In one of the Buddha’s many appearances on earth before he became 
the Buddha, he lived as a Brahman and had a wife, named Nauda, and three 
daughters. But the future Buddha died and became a golden mallard, and 
his wife and daughters were cared for by their charitable neighbors. 
The future Buddha, now a golden mallard, taking pity on his family, ap- 
peared on the ridge pole, explained that he was their father, and asked them 
to sell his golden feathers, one by one. This gave them a comfortable liv- 
ing. But after a time the mother said, “There’s no trusting men or animals. 
Your father might go away. Let’s pluck him clean!’’ So they did so, 
against the protests of the future Buddha. But the feathers had this prop- 
erty, that if plucked out against the will of their owner, they became plain 
crane’s feathers. So Nauda and her daughters had nothing but a pile of 
worthless grey feathers, and the golden mallard never came to them again. 
What has this to do with the subject, “Is a Farm Home Entitled to 
Incur the Extravagance of a Lawn?’’’ Very much. 
