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For second best list of answers, we will award, 
Ninety-Nine Recitations and Readings, No. 2. 
Lists close on Dec. 10. 
Answers ;to September Garnerings were received 
from Lackawanna Lad, Little Buckshot, Anna Con¬ 
dor, Dan Shannon, Fannie Fleming, Maude, Minnie 
Starr. Young Pilot, Andy Handy, Wise Owl, Hattie 
Kendall, Captain Clover, August and Clytie. 
Prizes were awarded to Maude and August. 
Ocr Cozy Corner. 
Maude’s puzzle, in this issue, appears to be con¬ 
structed on a novel and original plan; and in solving 
it, our friends must remember it is a double puzzle 
and should send both answers. Possibly, it was 
harder in making than it will be in solving.— Au¬ 
gust: The word was, of course, intended to be “ad¬ 
amantine,” and if there was any mistake, it was not 
Undine’s. Your list of answers was a very fine one, 
and you will see you have been rewarded for the 
same.— Byrnehc: At present writing, we have only 
one more of your contributions on hand which 
we are saving for the next number. Glad to know 
you had not forgotten us.— Sally: The “Garnerings” 
are lonesome and the “Corner” is dull because you 
have been so long silent. Rumors reach us that you 
have taken a “new departure,” and w r e are some¬ 
what curious to know just what that is.. Please 
gratify us by rising and explaining.— Anna Condor: 
The poem you mention, was written by Miss Proctor, 
and appears in her published works; she died some 
years ago. We think you can obtain her poems at 
any book-store.— Undine: Did you deem the Sep¬ 
tember puzzles unusually difficult? We did not re¬ 
ceive any list from you, and there were several of 
our “regulars” w r ho did not report. Quite a number 
of good things are “scheduled” in for the Christmas 
number.— Plexus : The little paper was received, and 
we liked the appearance of your column very much; 
hope you will make it a success,— Puzzlers and 
Solvers: Hope you will have an enjoyable Thanks¬ 
giving, and that you will make it enjoyable for 
others. F.S. F. 
OUR QUESTION BOX. 
Lyons, Wayne Co., N. Y. 
Isaac F. Tillinghast: Dear Sir,— My only excuse 
for troubling you is, that your magazine sent to me 
for a time induced me to try gardening In a small 
way. This spring, through one of our merchants, 
I ordered one pound and some ounces of your P. S. 
cabbage seed with seven pounds of onion seed; the 
result is, I have 15 to. to 18 thousand cabbage and 
400 bushels of onions. Now I cannot sell all at home, 
and have no acquaintance among commission men, 
and thinking perhaps you would be willing to help 
me, I trouble you with this. Can you give me the 
names and address of a firm in Albany and one 
in Philadelphia, that are reliable, that I can sell to, 
or send on commission, i or give me any adyice on 
thesubject If so, I would feel greatly obliged. 
I have had no experience in the business. 
If market is poor, would it do to pile cabbage with 
• a a 
stumps on, in heaps of a thousand, cover with straw 
and ship in winter; if so, would they need fire in car? 
Your seeds gave entire satisfaction with me, and I 
hear good accounts from those that I sold. If sales 
do not prove too discouraging this fall, I expect to 
extend next spring to four acres of onions and eight 
or more of cabbage. I shall feel perfect confidence 
in sending you my order. In some of the richest 
spots of ground I had heads that would nearly, if not 
quite, fill a half bushel measure, three months from 
setting, very sol id and hard at that. 
Will small onions that have ripened down the size 
of a hickory nut to a walnut, do for sets next spring, 
to make salable onions ? 
I fear you are troubled with a great many letters 
of this nature, but I shall hope fora reply. 
Very Respectfully, Chas. E. Fellows. 
Under head of Cabbage Market, we give 
in another place names of commission mer¬ 
chants in several cities who are perfectly 
reliable. Instructions for wintering cab¬ 
bages are also elsewhere given. The small 
onions will do to use for sets if care is used 
in selecting those not too large. 
River Styx, O, August 22, 1885. 
I. F. Tillinghast: Dear Sir;— I mentioned to you 
in a former letter the failure of the American Won¬ 
der pea to germinate, (which you seem not to note 
among your “Summer Complaints” and indeed it is 
more properly a spring opening which brings a void 
in June), as my friends made me sensible of when 
they came to look for peas and found none. 
Truly Yours, D W. Hard. 
We have no explanation to offer cocern- 
mg this complaint. The peas were new 
crop and from our best Canadian grower. 
All wrinkled peas are quite tender and sub¬ 
ject to rotting if planted very early in cold, 
wet ground. We may have had a bag 
which was injured in curing, but so far as 
we tested them we discovered no lack of 
vitality. 
Wellsboro, Pa., August 11,1885. 
Mr. I. F. Tillinghast : Dear Sir;—I am quite 
anxious to obtain some information in regard to the 
use of certain fertilizers and do not know of any one 
more likely than yourself to be able to give it. It is 
difficult to obtain stable manure here, but how will 
the three or four following articles do in its place; 
For lightening the soil—a clay loam—I can get all 
the sawdust I want for the drawing. Then from the 
tannery near us I can get fleshing for $1.00 per two 
horse load. Ashes for fifty cents per two horse load, 
and hair for the drawing. The fleshing is said to be 
a very strong fertilizer, but I do not know how much 
value there is in composted hair. Have you ever 
used anything of the kind ? ... 
Have you in use any kind of machine .for cutting 
strawberry runners, or do you know if there is any 
made for that purpose ? 
Have heard good reports from cabbage plants so 
