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consists of oiled paper or cloth fitted with loops or hooks and 

 held in place by stakes 

 thrust into the ground. 



— Rural New- Yorker, 

 373- 



Hilling Celery. — 

 (Fig. 46.) Instead of 

 holding the celery with 

 the hands until it is 

 banked, it was found 

 that paper string — 

 which soon rots — could 

 be used. "We put it 

 on several thousand plants and found that very little injury 

 was done, and this happened by the careless putting on of 

 the string. The plants were held in position by the string 

 until a rain came and settled the dirt around the plants and 



wet the string 

 enough so it would 

 give way to the 

 growing plant. 

 Some of the plants 

 we gave a second 

 banking before the 

 string gave way 

 and let the plant 

 spread. We in- 

 vented a little de- 

 vice for putting the 

 string on. I took 

 a tomato-can and 

 punched a hole 

 through the bot- 

 tom of it, nailed it 

 to a stick, and then 

 with a piece of 

 pantaloons' sus- 

 pender, with the 

 buckles, fastened it 

 Fig. 47. to the right arm 



