S££®-T1fi£ AI3B HARVEST. 
Our Cozy Corner. 
Maude: Our friend ‘•Sally” conducts the puzzle 
department in the Canaan Reporter of E. Canaan, 
N. H., and she would be glad to receive some con¬ 
tributions from you and all our puzzlers. Address 
Box 31., No. Boscawen, N. H. Please to favor the 
ladj' in the manner desired, if in your power.— 
B. M. H.: We think your answers to April ‘Gar- 
nerings” came after we had closed the lists, made 
the awards and sent copy of June issue to La Plume. 
In No. 20, the word “time” should have read “tunic;’' 
it must have been a typographical error, as we sent 
Maude’s own copy. You will notice that the June 
rebuses were all right, and that No. 35 was a triple 
Cross Word Enigma. Glad to welcome you back 
again; for we always miss our faithful co-workers 
when they do not report every month.— Mead: Con¬ 
tributions received; some will be used although your 
spelling will have to be revised —C. H. P.: Thanks, 
for the information so kindly and promptly given. 
Your “garnerings” are always acceptable, and a new 
supply will soon be “in order.”— Angelina L.: We 
have received many letters in praise of your June 
charade. Of course, it was easy to solve but beau¬ 
tifully constructed. More charades would be as well 
recived, we have no doubt.— Byrnehc: The prizes 
are sent from the office at La Plume. Sorry yours 
did not reach you; but hope, by the time you read 
this, it will have come to hand.— Cassbet: The nu¬ 
merical will be given in the October number. No 
doubt the answer will prove a truism, although we 
do not think it did so about eight years ago.— Un¬ 
dine: Excuse the omission of your name among 
the solvers for May, last month. The fault lies en¬ 
tirely with the puzzle editor, although an uninten¬ 
tional error .—Nellie Niles: Don’t get excited but 
restrain your impatience. The answer to Sally’s re¬ 
bus will be given in next month’s “Cozy Corner.”— 
Solvers: Please notify the puzzle editor when your 
prizes do not reach you. F. S. F. 
Onions and .Early Potatoes. 
BY N. J. SHEPHERD. 
I have always found it profitable to har¬ 
vest onions and early potatoes as soon as 
they are fully ripe. Where the soil has 
been kept in a proper condition by good 
cultivation, a good steel ~ake is the best im¬ 
plement to harvest onions, as they can be 
readily raked into windrows and cured. I 
prefer curing in the shade; gathering them 
up and taking off the tops and laying upon 
scaffolds in the shade. They should be 
sorted when picked up. The small onions 
will not sell profitably and they can be used 
more economically for sets, either for late 
fall or early spring planting, growing into 
marketable onions much earlier than from 
either seed or buttons. Onions shonld not 
be stored in too deep piles or they will 
heat and rot. All they require is a cool, dry 
place and plenty of ventilation. When 
this is secured there is very little danger of 
onions rotting. Do not cut the tops off too 
close, it injures the keeping qualities. Be 
sure they are thoroughly dry before storing, 
this part of the work is very important. 
I also dry potatoes as fast as they are 
dug. If I desire to save a portion for seed 
I divide into three lots. The smallest for 
feed, the best and smoothest for seed and 
the balance to use or market. I use boxes 
or baskets, they are much easier to handle. 
Sort the potatoes as fast as dug, throwing 
each size into separate baskets. I never 
allow them to remain in the sun for any 
considerable length of time. Nothing in¬ 
jures the quality of potatoes so much as 
being exposed to the hot rays of the sun, 
for this reason I carry them direct to the 
shade and cure them there. 
I am aware that many prefer to leave the 
early potatoes in the ground until cool 
weather to avoid the risk of rotting. But 
in my experience, if proper pains are taken, 
this risk is reduced far below that of allow¬ 
ing them to remain in the ground. I have 
never yet lost potatoes dug in August, but 
I always dig as soon as they are thoroughly 
ripe and carry to the shade and cure well. 
Be sure they are thoroughly dry and then 
store away in a loft or place above ground 
where there is plenty of ventilation. Pota¬ 
toes left in the soil too long after they are 
ripe will deteriorate in quality, and are lia¬ 
ble to be destroyed by vermin, or to make 
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