200 POTATO CULTURE. 



OTHER USP:S FOR POTATO-BOXES. 



Not only do we use these for storing all kinds of roots, 

 potatoes, apples, etc., but while I am writing, Nov. 22, our 

 hands have been packing our celery as fast as it is dug, 

 right into the potato-boxes. We lay the boxes on one end, 

 then take up the celery with a little earth adhering, and 

 pack it tight and close in a box, till the box is full. After 

 being filled, the boxes are turned over right side up. The 

 celery can now be loaded into a wagon or other vehicle with- 

 out extra handling, and without breaking and mashing the 

 tops ; and it is bat a short job to lift it out and set the boxes 

 tight up together in a dark cool cellar or other repository. 

 If the cellar seems to be too dry, and inclined to wilt, the 

 whole floor of it may be flooded with water, letting it go 

 through the bottom so as to dampen the roots, but without 

 wetting the tops in the least. So far as I know, this is the 

 rirst time celery was ever handled in this way. But please 

 notice : While we were loading it up near the roadside, a 

 man stopped his team and wanted to know why he could not 

 take one of those boxes right along, put it into his cellar, 

 and use the celery as they wanted it. I assured him it was 

 exactly in the shape he wanted it for that purpose. Select- 

 ing one of the best boxes, when he found he could get box 

 and all for a dollar he handed over the money, and the box- 

 ful of celery was in his wagon in a minute. You will notice 

 this fixes it in nice shape to retail, so that people in the 

 country or anywhere else can use it all along through the 

 winter, just as they want it. 



PLANTING POTATOES VERY LATE, ETC. 



During the past season I have been greatly interested in 

 watching the operations of a young farmer in Terry's neigh- 

 borhood, who works on somewhat of a modification of Ter- 

 ry's system ; that is, he has a rotation of his own that does 

 not include wheat after potatoes. I can best tell you about 

 it by making some extracts from some notes I published in 

 our journal at different times during the summer. 



