as before. When the vegetables grown be¬ 
tween the rows have been harvested, a 
large cultivator should be run through a 
number of times to loosen and mellow the 
soil. The last earthing up may be d me 
with a double corn plow, div ssing up with 
hoe or spade. 
STORING AWAY FOR WINTER. 
One of the cheapest methods is to dig 
pits, funnel-shaped, three feet in diameter 
at the top, twenty inches in depth and 
.terminating in a point at the bottom. 
These pits if possible should be placed on 
the brow of a hill where good drainage can 
be secured. In the bottom of each, a trough 
made of three boards, triangular-slmped 
and four feet in length, should be placed 
to serve as a drain. The top board of this 
trough should lie about an inch below the 
bottom of the pit and be punctured full of 
holes to receive anj r water that may find its 
way into the pit. Another trough, similar 
in shape and size, with a number of holes 
in each side, should be placed upright in the 
center of the bit to serve as a flue. This 
flue with the bottom trough, gives good 
ventilation to the center of the pit. carries 
off the moisture and prevents heating. In 
packing, commence at the flue, stand the 
plants uprightly around it and press them 
in closely, using no earth except what ad 
heres to the roots. They should be arrang¬ 
ed similar to a coal pit or grain stack, ter¬ 
minating a few inches from the top of the 
flue and having a uniform slope on all sides 
-down to the margin of the pit. A cover¬ 
ing of long straw should be put on at once. 
Tie the tops of the straw around the top of 
the flue, straighten it out and distribute it 
equally over all parts of the pit. If the 
weather is mild, put on a very thin cover¬ 
ing of earth merely to keep the straw in 
place. Add to this as the cold in reuses 
until you have sufficient for protection dur¬ 
ing the winter. Each pit will hold from 
D00 to 1200 stalks, owing to size of stalks 
and care in packing. An acre of ground 
planted as directed, will produce over 50,000 
stalks of celery, which at the low sum of 
three cents per. stalk will amount to $1500. 
The plants pulled out in thinning the drills 
may be transplanted to another bed, and 
sold to those who do not wish to go to the 
trouble of raising them. If the above di¬ 
rections are fully carried out, and success 
attends your efforts in growing and selling 
what we have specified can be grown on 
one acre, the nice sum of $1800 net w ill be 
the compensation for your labors. 
Bloomsburg. Pa., Oct. 80, 1882. 
-- 
WHAT SEED SHALL WE SOW?. 
A wonderful thing is a seed 
The one thing deathless forever! 
The one thing changeless—utterly true. 
Forever old and forever new, 
And fickle and faithless never. 
Plant blessings, blessings will bloom; 
Plant hate, and hate will grow; 
You can sow to-day. to morrow will bring 
The blossom that proves what sort of thing 
Is the seed, the seed that you sow. 
The True Wife—O ftentimes I have seen a 
tall ship glide by against the tide as if drawn by 
some invisible bow-line, with a hundred strong 
arms pulling it. Her sails were unfilled, her 
streamers were drooping, she had neither side 
wheel nor stern wheel; still she moved on state¬ 
ly, in serene triumph, as with her own life. But 
I knew that on the other side of the ship, hidden 
beneath the great bulk that swam so majestical¬ 
ly, there was a little toilsome steam tug, with a 
heart of fire aud arms of iron, that was tugging 
it bravely on, and I knew it the little steam tug 
untwined her arms and left the ship it would 
wallow and roll about, and drift hither aud thith¬ 
er, and go off with the refluent, no man knows 
whither. And so I have known mo r e than one 
genius, high decked, full freighted, id'e-sailed, 
gay-pennoned, but that for the bare, toiling arms 
and brave warm-beating heart of the faithful lit¬ 
tle wife that nestles close to him, so that no 
wind or wave could part them, would have gone 
town the stream and have been heard of no 
more.—O liver Wendell Holmes. 
“Captain,” said a son of Erin, as the ship 
was nearing the coast in inclement weather, 
“have ye an almenix on board?” “No. I 
haven’t.” “Thin, sure, we shall have to take 
the weather as it comes.” 
A Frenchman, writing a letter in Eng¬ 
lish to a friend, and looking in the diction¬ 
ary for the word “preserve,” and finding it 
meant to pickle, wrote as follows; “May 
you and your family be pickled to all etern¬ 
ity.” 
