1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
225 
Garden Notes from Canada. 
A story is told of a woman asking a 
friend why the Bible had so much to say 
about David, as he was not a good man. 
Her friend replied that he was not 
spoken of as an example, but to warn 
us off the rocks. So although my suc¬ 
cess has the past year been a dismal 
row of zeroes without the digit before 
them, still it may be that the story of 
niy failures rather than my success (had 
I been successful) may be of the most 
use to the home girls. 
As soon as the seeds arrived (in Feb¬ 
ruary) we sowed a lot of them in the 
liouse in boxes, and planned of the big 
things we intended to do, but shortly 
after they had come up nicely my father, 
never a strong man, was taken sick and 
iliat meant that I had his plants as well 
as my own to look after. As I have no 
hrothers, my sisters and myself took 
care of the horses and cattle for the rest 
of the Winter, as he was hardly able to 
leave the house. Right here while giv¬ 
ing due credit to Abbie J. Peffer 1 want 
10 claim a little glory for some of us 
girls who do a lot of farm work, even if 
we do not “boss it.” Some years ago a 
slender, somewhat undersized girl (our 
next neighbor) took charge of a large 
farm during the thick of the haying sea¬ 
son while her step-father and brother 
went out to our Canadian Northwest to 
locate a claim there, and everyone said 
she did as well as a man could, and it 
was a heavy crop, too. She and her 
mother did all the heavy work. It seems 
also a constant source of wonder to our 
neighbors that a broken-down man and 
three girls, none of us tall and one any¬ 
thing but strong, can take off every year 
about 30 acres of hay as fast as any of 
ihe neighbors, and never hire a particle 
of help of any kind, and they mostly do. 
But to go back to our garden. Among 
other things we tried to raise onions for 
iiansjclanting, and made a complete fail¬ 
ure of it; we always do. They came up 
all right, but “damped down” while our 
other plants did well, except that 1 was 
too rash when 1 attempted to harden 
I hem. Our onions that we sowed in the 
ground did really well; were the wonder 
of Ihe place. Nearly everyone was sur¬ 
prised both at the size and the amount 
of them. We made $40 off tenth of an 
acre, and had a lot more my father 
would not sell, as he said he intended 
putting gcjod products on the market or 
none. Then there were spaces in the 
rows tliat had not an onion for several 
feet—yes, feet, as the maggots had eaten 
them ouL 1 wish some one could tell 
ii.s what to do for them. One man said 
ihal he had “heard that coal oil and 
soajj suds were good, and so it might on 
a .^inall patch, but it would take almost 
a lake of it for half an acre,” and 1 
think so, too. We did not have much 
B'ouble selling them, as we peddled them 
from house to house, and where people 
could not pay money we took potatoes 
or flour. Lots of people have given up 
raising onions on account of the maggot, 
and that helped us a lot. Then too we 
spoke to every person who went past the 
house and sold a lot that way. 
By the way, has anybody ever cured 
Ihe onicni thinnings for sets, and how did 
it work? We have a lot we cured last 
year rather than throw them away. 
Maybe you think that it was a shiftless 
way to garden to leave them so long be¬ 
fore thinning, but we had so much other 
work to do that we could not neglect 
any more than we could the onions, that 
we could not be in the onion patch all 
the time; besides, we wanted lots of 
green onions to eat ourselves. Can any¬ 
one tell me why the thinnings cannot be 
transplanted successfully? At least we 
cannot do it here. Would not sets grow 
if planted about the same time the 
onions would be ready to transplant, and 
if so, why not the green onions? We 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use“Mrs.Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adc. 
have tried it in every way, so it can 
scarcely be the fault of our method that 
1 can see, nearly everyone else here pro¬ 
claims it a failure as if it were a proven 
fact as old as the hills. Although the 
onions were such a success as they did 
not belong to me I am still obliged to 
write failure after my efforts. One of 
our drawbacks was that the seed was not 
absolutely pure; another was that 1 
made the mistake of ordering consider¬ 
able pink celery and the people had 
never seen it before and were suspicious. 
I do not like White Plume for my taste, 
but the people do, and 1 should have 
grown more of It. 1 was the first lo have 
celery on the market, and of course that 
told in my favor. By the time the best 
of the early celery was gone other folks 
had theirs ready, and that knocked me 
out, as theirs was better, and besides it 
was white. J.ots of people grew their 
own who had bought from me the year 
before. Most of the late celery was a 
dead failure and, as 1 said, 1 could not 
sell it. I nad it pitted, but before I knew 
where 1 was those abominable cows 
which we had turned into the hay fields 
to pasture, never dreaming they were 
likely to get into the pit, got a taste of 
the culls left in the ground, ai)d went 
crazy after them. They knocked off the 
top of the pit and chewed the tops off 
most of them; pulled up some more and 
tramped up some besides. I made up my 
mind then and there that if a foolish girl 
could refrain from swearing at such a 
time there was no excuse for a strong 
man under any circumstances, especial¬ 
ly if he called himself sensible. As 1 
did not expect to sell it after that I was 
not as careful as 1 should have been, 
and the frost got in. 1 did sell a little 
bit too, but it was asked for. 1 am fond 
of it myself so 1 can manage what there 
is left, I guess. 
But the most exasperating drawback 
of all was the weather. Folks said it 
was the worst season they had ever 
known. It came in cold, rainy and back- 
wai-d, no growth in the ground till late. 
Cucumbers, squash and pumpkins were 
for the most part a failure. One of the 
neighbors said that although the cu¬ 
cumbers came up they had not gumption 
enough to spread their leaves, to say 
nothing of growing. After the weather 
clerk had relented, he had apparently 
run short of rain, as it came in a per¬ 
fect drought. ].,ate celery was almost a 
complete failure; indeed was altogether 
so except for a few seeds of the late kind 
which 1 planted early; cabbage was a 
failure, potatoes a good crop on the 
whole. While peddling other things we 
undertook to peddle butter too; we sold 
most of it to one woman who declared 
it must be first-class or she would not 
take it. After giving it a trial the only 
fault she had to find was that I did not 
salt it enough, as they ate it too fast, 
which was gratifying, to say the least. 1 
think that we could make perhaps lots of 
money from butter were it not that we' 
both (my sisters are not here now) hate 
the cow business, all through, and like 
to “see things grow.” Although we 
made such a failure of it this time, still 
"hope springs eternal in the human 
breast” and we are planning for a bet¬ 
ter time this year. uosic duncan. 
You keep the Sabbath in imitation of 
God’s rest. Do, by all manner of means, 
and keep also the rest of the week in 
imitation of God’s work—John Ruskin. 
Even children drink Grain-O 
because they like it and the doc¬ 
tors say it is good for them. Why 
not ? It contains all of the nourish¬ 
ment of the pure grain and none 
of the poisons of coffee. 
TRY IT TO-DAY. 
At grocers everywhere; 15c. and 25c. per package. 
The Household Congress. 
Kkiumno PuMi’KiNs.—For the benefit 
of the woman whose family is fond of 
pumpkin pies in the Winter this sug¬ 
gestion is offered. If the pumpkins are 
placed in a warm, dry place they will 
keep all Winter, and so do away with 
the extra trouble of canning them. 
L. m’piiehson. 
A SiMTi.E Papeu Rack. —A very inex¬ 
pensive paper rack may be made from a 
broomstick or curtain-pole about four 
feet in length, suspended by hangers at 
each end. Six inches from each end cut 
a groove around the rod to prevent the 
hanger from slipping. The hanger may 
be of ribbon or cord tied where the rod 
is grooved with a pretty bow. If the 
rack is to hold too many papers for a 
ribbon to support, the hanger may be of 
belting. The papers are slipped over the 
rod. This takes as little room as any 
style of paper rack, and while it may be 
hung where it is convenient, it is always 
out of the way. 
henkietta m. brayton. 
Obedience in Children. —I think that 
parents who do not exact obedience from 
their young children are sowing trouble 
for themselves later on. It seems to me 
that the child who is taught to obey be¬ 
cause Mother say so will have more re¬ 
spect for the parent than the child who 
is let do as it will. As for reasoning 
rather than command, it would depend 
upon the child. 1 think it’s wiin chil¬ 
dren as with older folks. Some are will¬ 
ing to be reasoned with while others will 
not heed when they do understand. I 
asked a mother with three young chil¬ 
dren; she said she could reason with her 
two-year-old boy easier than she could 
with her four-year-old girl. The latter 
is very self-willed. d. e. h. 
Cuban Codfish.—Pick into fine shreds 
a cupful of freshened codfish. Cut an 
onion into thin slices and lightly brown 
in a saucejian with a tablespoonful of 
butter. Add the fish and i)Our in just 
enough water to cover. Add a part of a 
chopped green pepper and a half can of 
tomatoes. Cover closely and simmer for 
an hour. If the tomatoes are very juicy, 
less water is required. Cream a rounded 
teaspoonful of butter and one of flour; 
stir into the fish until smooth and cook¬ 
ed; turn the mixture upon thin slices of 
buttered toast. 
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