THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
1<)03 
741 
EVERYBODY'S GARDEN. 
Onion Questions.—I have about 100 
bushels potato onions which I wish to keep 
into the Winter. If I put them in bags 
of P/i bushel each and store in a dry base¬ 
ment which is clear of frost, will they keep 
all right? I would sell them now, but our 
market is very dull (only 50 cents per 
bushel), and but few can be used at that. 
I have about 30 bushels of sets, and 75 
bushels of large onions. Can you tell me 
of a better market than we have here? 
Bloomington, Ind. g. h. t. 
I should prefer to store in bins, raised 
six inches or more from basement bot¬ 
tom. Make the bottom open as possible 
and still hold the onions; and spread 
them, not to exceed a foot or 15 inches 
in depth. Keep the temperature as even 
as possible. I believe they will keep bet¬ 
ter in that way than if stored in bags. 
I do not know' your ordinary prices 
there, but it might be wise to sell whac 
you can at prices named rather than 
take the risk of carrying them all. 
Onions are not easy to carry unless with 
exceptional facilities. Write some of 
the Indianapolis or Chicago seedsmen: 
they might be glad to handle the sets. 
Otherwise I would know of no other 
course than to sell in small quantities 
to grocers and dealers who usually han¬ 
dle them. As to the larger onions, I 
would be unable to suggest any better 
market than you already have, unless it 
be a reliable dealer to whom you could 
ship them. There should be such men 
to be found in some of the larger cities 
within your reach. 
Hotukds. —We require more capacity 
than we have now, and our present plan 
is to construct them this Fall. For ordi¬ 
nary work they do very well if built en¬ 
tirely above ground, and w'e can utilize 
considerable such space. But for early 
and long continued work more manure 
space is required, so we propose to get 
that by excavating. This would be 
pretty tedious w'ork if left until the 
beds were required for service, so we 
thought to save digging in the frozen 
earth. We have plenty of sunny ex¬ 
posure with good drainage, and ample 
protection from north and west. We 
shall excavate two feet in depth and 
set in posts of 2x4 or heavier, four for 
each side. These will extend six inches 
above the surface on the south side and 
one foot above on the north. This gives 
us at least 18 inches manure space, 
which is none too much for cold 
weather and long use, and still ample 
room for soil and plant space. Of 
course, these are lined up with plank 
preferably, although good inch lumber 
will do very well. The work is far 
easier done this Fall than in the Winter, 
and if well covered up they are ready 
for use at any time. Thus constructed 
they are the most satisfactory of any 
I have used, and are easily protected 
so that they make good storage room 
for cabbage, parsnips, etc. 
Nuts to Crack. —This season has 
given most of us something in this line 
to do, and many of the nuts seem to 
have pretty tough shells. Just now, po¬ 
tatoes appear to be the great question, 
and the wisest management of the 
crop is a vexing problem. Many are 
digging and rushing their entire crop 
into the market, fearing to hold them, 
and this course keeps prices far too 
low, especially as the shipping season 
is not yet w'ell on. Others report that 
digging has seemed to check the disease, 
while in other instances the rot has not 
started, even where the blight has en¬ 
tirely killed down the tops. So the out¬ 
look is very uncertain. With us the 
prospects are still favorable. All that 
were in any way affected with the blight 
have been dug and stored, and are thus 
far doing well. Those that matured 
ahead of the blight are most of them 
still undug, and show but very little 
tendency to rot. Some growers report 
having used air-slaked lime with good 
results. Of this remedy I know nothing 
personally, but if effectual, it is cheap 
and easily applied. We have it on hand 
and shall test it if occasion presents 
itself. Other problems are: The hungry 
ground, for which we have not sufficient 
manure, and lack of adequate team 
power. Horseflesh is high at present. 
There comes a time when there is little 
to do for the extra force and idle horses 
are expensive boarders. ' The best thing 
to do, we believe, is to hire horses, 
which fortunately are available just 
new. Thus we hope to find a way out 
and provide for still more cover crops, 
and in addition get the manure already 
on hand where it will be doing some 
good. Cover crops w'ill have to take the 
place of manure to some extent. There 
is considerable of the latter to be had, 
but the men who have it are growing 
cunning and are getting to ask prices 
for it that make the buying a questiona¬ 
ble venture. Well, cow peas are begin¬ 
ning to come our way, and next year we 
hope to fill and satisfy some of the 
ground that is now' sadly in need of 
thorough renovation. j. E. morse. 
Michigan. 
OUR TOMATO PATCH. 
The hotbed was accidentally left open 
during a severe storm in Spring last 
year, and all the tomato plants de¬ 
stroyed. It looked as though there 
would be no tomato patch in our gar¬ 
den that year, as the season was far ad¬ 
vanced then, and no plants to be had 
except some long spindling ones at the 
grocery, whose name the grocer could 
not remember. We bought a dozen of the 
sickly-looking things and broke two in 
getting them home. This looked very 
discouraging, but we determined to give 
the rest a chance. They were planted on 
clay soil heavily fertilized with well- 
rotted manure in a place where the sun 
could reach them all day long. We lit¬ 
erally buried them by digging holes 
nearly two feet deep, and filling care¬ 
fully in around the thin stalk with rich 
soil and fertilizer. When the task was 
completed the plants looked to be about 
six inches high. They grew like the 
proverbial weed, and soon spread all 
over the adjoining beds of flow'ers and 
vegetables. About the first of August 
we trimmed them with a sharp sickle 
for fear the sun’s rays would never reach 
the fruit, so dense was the foliage. The 
neighbors predicted a short crop and 
small tomatoes from the pruning but 
their prophecies never came true. By 
the middle of August we had all the to¬ 
matoes we could use. and were giving 
them to the neighbors w'ho had ad¬ 
vised against trimming the vines. They 
then began to cut right and left among 
their own vines, but it was too late to 
do much good. The fruit was smooth, 
round and of a deep rich red. We 
never found out the variety, but think 
it must have been an excellent one. By 
digging around one plant we found that 
the roots that usually project into the 
air on the stems of tomato vines had 
deeply rooted themselves into the rich 
soil, making a strong plant able to ab¬ 
sorb much moisture. The people who 
had asked if we were digging graves for 
the vines in the garden now think bet¬ 
ter of the burying ground, since we had 
tomatoes to give away, while their vines 
produced sparingly. We canned and 
preserved and made catsup and ate them 
raw and cooked, and still they ripened. 
When frost came there was a good sup¬ 
ply of green ones for pickles and sauces, 
and we might have ripened them by pro¬ 
tecting the vines with papers or old 
clothes. 
This year we planted the tallest vines 
that grew from seed of the last year’s 
crop, in precisely the same manner and 
on the same soil. They fruited freely. 
A few showed spots of black rot, and the 
neighbors say that is from planting on 
the same soil twice, but there were 
enough smooth ones to assure us plenty 
to use and give away. They were not 
watered since the week the plants were 
set out. I suppose the Everybody’s Gar¬ 
den man will say our success was purely 
accidental, and it may have been, but 
we had a fine crop last year, and we are 
satisfied with the present season. 
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