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A Member. How do you bank your celery? 



Mr. Garrahan. Well, the variety that we expect to take 

 out early we bank as high as we can — get it as much bleached 

 as we can before putting it away, and the celery that we want 

 to keep until February we bank just enough to hold the leaves 

 straight. 



A Member. How do you dig the trenches for your celery? 



Mr. Garrahan. We put a little attachment on our riding 

 cultivator this fall that helped somewhat in digging those 

 trenches. We took the rolling coulters from the riding plow and 

 fastened them on the riding cultivator and stretched our string 

 down to have something to go by, cutting the side of those 

 ditches to these straight discs; that saved the expense of cutting 

 down with spades. 



A Member. Do you put boards over that celery? 



Mr. Garrahan. We nail into a V-shape the boards that are 

 used for blanching the early celery, and those are put over the 

 trenches. Later on in the winter or fall, if the weather becomes 

 very severe, we put some manure over those boards. It is a 

 good plan, though, not to be in too much of a hurry about put- 

 ting on manure. The celery will stand a good deal of freezing 

 without hurting it, and we put on the first application of man- 

 ure, just the least little bit, to cover up the cracks at the ends, 

 and later on, as the weather becomes cold, we put on enough 

 manure to keep it from freezing. 



A Member. What is your extreme temperature? 



Mr. Garrahan. Why, I've seen it go down to 20 degrees 

 below zero, but that's very unusual; usually 6 or 8 or 10 de- 

 grees below — that is cold weather when it gets down to there. 



A Member. In selecting a site for this trenching you have to 

 select a site by the water, do you not? 



Mr. Garrahan. No, we drench the celery right where it 

 grows — take the ends of the celery and put them in right 

 alongside where they were growing. 



A jVIember. Do you bank the rows wide enough so that you 

 don't let any surface water get in? 



Mr. Garrahan. Sometimes, yes. I don't like it to get in, 

 but we can't help it sometimes. We have got to raise the celery 

 in the kind of ground we have. I would prefer keeping celery 



