8 CELERY CULTURE 



may drain off easily. The soil may be worked back 

 from the sides of the ditches by plowing toward 

 the center of the beds. 



Treatment of New Land. — Newly cleared land 

 that is broken up in the spring should not be 

 planted to celery, but should be devoted to some 

 such crop as corn or cowpeas for one season to 

 reduce the soil to a proper condition for intensive 

 cultivation. If the land is first broken during the 

 later part of the summer it should be allowed to 

 lie fallow until autumn and then plowed a second 



FIG. I — HEAVY THREE-HORSE BREAKING PLOW 



time. The first plowing should be performed with 

 a heavy three-horse breaking plow, such as is illus- 

 trated in Fig. I, in order that the soil may be turned 

 deeply and well broken up. This is especially im- 

 portant when handling muck, peat, or marsh lands 

 that are being broken for the first time. In pre- 

 paring a sandy loam for celery growling, the break- 

 ing should be done with an ordinary two-horse 

 turning plow. As a rule the sandy soils have a 

 clay subsoil, and the action of soil moisture is im- 



