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and spread in the bottom of furrows marked out for 

 potatoes. Rows for celery were laid off three and 

 one-half feet apart and six inches deep. In the bottom 

 was put a good dressing of composted manure before 

 setting the plants, which were set six inches apart. 

 The celery was a second crop after early vegetables, 

 and its production was a hard fight, owing to drouth. 

 The method of irrigating was to turn water mto 

 trenches lietween the rows, which were banked across 

 at intervals by little dams of earth, thus holding back 

 the water and allowing it to soak into the rows. The 

 celery crop was stored in trenches fifteen inches wide, 

 eighteen inches deep and two hundred and seventy feet 

 long. The plants were dug, the earth knocked off the 

 roots, rusty outside leaves pulled oft" and the plants 

 packed closely in the trench, which were covered with 

 boards, with earth over all. The fifteen thousand stalks 

 at forty cents per dozen netted five hundred dollars. 

 Other important crops were salsify, one hundred and 

 twenty dollars ; tomatoes, sixty-seven bushels, eighty- 

 seven dollars; muskmelons, three thousand one hun- 

 dred and three, one hundred and three dollars ; radishes, 

 fifty-seven dollars: cucumbers, forty-four dollars. 



Concludes this i)ruminent contestant: ''Long 

 liours and plenty of luird work : endless quantities of 

 well-rotted horse manure : the most thorough tillage of 

 the soil; first-class seed planted with good judgment^ 

 and with ample moisture one cannot fail to reap a 

 good harvest." 



A truly American career is that of ^Ir. Rem- 

 baugh; winning his own way, making and losing 

 money with great facility in several locations and occu- 

 pations. Of German-English descent, he was thrown 

 upon his own resources after eight years old; made 

 money as a sutler in the Federal army at the age of 



