1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
721 
EVERYBODY'S GARDEN. 
Lima Beans. —For our own edification 
we kept tab on a nine-foot row of the 
Extra Early variety. They were trained 
on strings up the end of a shed. From 
the nine feet of row, w r e gathered TVz 
quarts of beans. This was only a fairly 
good yield w r e think, but at 35 to 40 
cents per quart at which they have sold 
here this year it was quite a snug sum 
for so little space. We did not realize 
these prices, however, for we ate every 
last one of them, and now have to 
mourn over our extravagance. Well, 
we cannot eat the cake and keep it too, 
but it demonstrates what we could have 
done had we prepared to fill our pocket- 
book at the expense of our stomachs. 
This is not gardening on paper, but in 
the soil, and the thought I -wish to im¬ 
press is the ease with which a bountiful 
supply may be grown. This quantity 
was by no means a full supply, but the 
space was very limited; just under the 
eaves of a shed, and otherwise would 
doubtless have gone to waste. 
Stoking Winter Cabbage. —Ours are 
very late this year, and they have cer¬ 
tainly come up through tribulation, for 
in all my experience I have never seen 
the green worms so persistently mean 
and rascally. Nearly the entire catalogue 
of remedies was exhausted, and in one 
form or another was applied two to 
three times a week. One crop was no 
sooner disposed of than another swarm¬ 
ed in to take its place. The cabbages are 
headed up nicely and are now free from 
the pests, but will be left standing in 
the ground to make any further growth 
that the weather and season will per¬ 
mit. In storing, I shall dig a pit four 
feet wide and deep enough to hold four 
or five tiers, and any length required. A 
layer of straw, leaves or cornstalks per¬ 
fectly dry and clean will cover the bot¬ 
tom to the depth of three or four inches. 
After cutting off the stumps and remov¬ 
ing all outside leaves, the cabbages will 
be packed in tiers, stump ends upward. 
Above ground they will be sloped to a 
peak and covered with straw and earth 
to the depth of six to eight inches. If 
they freeze that will be all right, only 
they will then be covered with manure 
and more earth, to hold them in the 
frozen condition. Steady freezing will 
do no harm, but the freezing and thaw¬ 
ing with every change of weather is 
what works the mischief. A dry condi¬ 
tion and steady temperature are the es¬ 
sentials for safe keeping. 
Turnips and Rutabagas. —These, like 
che cabbages, have so strong an odor 
that they are unfit for storage in the 
house cellar. They keep freshest and 
in nicest condition if pitted, and instead 
of covering first with straw, cover with 
earth, allowing it to sift through among 
the vegetables all it will. Then when 
there is danger of too much freezing use 
the straw or manure, and a second cov¬ 
ering of earth if needed. They too are 
more tender and crisp after a good 
freeze, but better to hold them thus than 
allow them to thaw and freeze again. 
Other Vegetables. —The beets, car¬ 
rots, parsnips and salsify are not at all 
objectionable in the cellar, but are much 
nicer and fresher if pitted in the loose 
earth. We like them best fresh from 
the soil in which they grew. So if some 
are stored in the cellar for use in the 
coldest weather I prefer to cover them 
with garden soil right on the cellar bot¬ 
tom. Whatever parsnips and salsify are 
carried over for Spring use are best left 
standing in the rows as they grew, but 
as top growth starts early in Spring 
they should be taken out then, as they 
soon become worthless once the tops 
start a growth. 
Pumpkins and Squashes. —There is 
sufficient genuine Yankee blood in our 
family to keep up a steady and strong 
For the land’s sake, use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers. They enrich the earth.— Ailv. 
demand for pumpkin pie. We have re¬ 
sorted to canning and drying the pump¬ 
kin, but find it more satisfactory to carry 
them through in their natural state. 
For this purpose we find the Mammoth 
varieties, as Potiron, Mammoth Tours, 
or the genuine pie pumpkins, as Jap¬ 
anese, Tennessee Sweet Potato, Winter 
Luxury, etc., far more satisfactory than 
the ordinary field sorts. We find no 
difficulty in carrying the above sorts 
through to late March in perfectly sound 
condition. They are all of the very best 
quality, and we discover but little, if any 
best quality in any of them. Our only 
objection to the Mammoth for our own 
use is that notwithstanding our keen 
relish for the pies and an earnest desire 
to do all we can, it is nevertheless ask¬ 
ing a little too much of a family of four 
to tackle an 80 or 100-pound pumpkin 
with a view of caring for the whole of 
it before wasting. We have always 
found ready sale for them among the 
bakeries where larger quantities are re¬ 
quired, and we like them very much for 
their feeding qualities. So we reserve 
the smaller varieties of the genuine pie 
pumpkins for our own use, and a scanty 
supply always gives us a lonesome 
homesick feeling. We have succeeded 
best with the Winter supply to keep 
them in a cool dry place just as long as 
possible without freezing. Then remove 
them to a dry garret beyond the danger 
of frost; but always with plenty of air. 
The Winter squashes are handled in the 
same way, but in either case we are care¬ 
ful to remove any that become affected 
as it always breeds trouble. 
Hotbeds. —I am not going to talk 
about hotbeds just now, but rather about 
the soil for use in the Spring. I am 
promising myself that before this month 
is gone, certainly before November 
passes, I will lay in a generous supply 
of good soil at least for the earliest beds. 
It is discouraging work to shoulder pick 
and shovel in February and go out to 
quarry the soil for the early beds. What 
I aim to do is to secure it before the 
ground freezes up, and have it ready 
against the day of need. When shovel¬ 
ing it over and stirring it up I want 
thoroughly to mix a quart of air-slaked 
lime to the bushel of soil. I have preach¬ 
ed the lime in season, out of season, but 
many of my hearers have turned a deaf 
ear. But the lime will rectify the acidity 
and nip many an insect and fungus pic¬ 
nic in the bud. So as for me and my 
house we shall serve the lime theory, 
for the soil at least. Freezing, of course, 
will be beneficial in many ways, but I 
aim to secure it sufficiently that I can 
say “thus far and no farther,” whenever 
I desire to do so. These good resolu¬ 
tions fully carried out will save much 
time and hard labor just at the time 
of using the soil. I shall try hard to 
carry out my plans. 
Digging Potatoes. —The time for this 
work is nearly or quite past but may 
be I can send a random arrow that will 
stick somewhere until next year. The 
fact is, we are or have sometimes been 
obliged to buy potatoes, and my wife 
gets pretty wrathy when she comes to 
pare and clean some of the trash that is 
sold for potatoes. They are often cut 
or gouged with the hoe or stuck through 
and through with the tines of the fork 
or hook, so that half is often wasted. 
She declares that we could never sell 
such stuff if we tried, and I am sure 
that we have been too careful of our 
good name ever to attempt it. She fur¬ 
ther deposes and says that our girls are 
going to be taught not only how to dig 
properly but also to plant and care for 
them, along with several other useful 
and homely tasks. I answer a loud 
amen, and while these old-fashioned no¬ 
tions are just a little behind the times 
of this new era, we are satisfied to be¬ 
lieve that many of the “old paths” are 
still perfectly safe and withal very de¬ 
sirable. But how are we to teach them? 
I know of no other way than by ex¬ 
ample. We gain most of our life prac¬ 
tices by imitation, and if we lead the 
way, going with them and doing the 
things with them they will imitate, and 
thereby learn the “how.” This we be¬ 
lieve is better than precept. My wife has 
often dug potatoes with me in the field 
and garden, as well as many other 
things, and she didn’t need much of my 
advice to do a tidy job, either. We are 
both strong advocates of example rather 
than precept, so she often picks up the 
hoe or potato fork, and calling the girls 
and going out to the potatoes gives them 
an object lesson. Working gradually in¬ 
to the hill with a few light, quick but 
very careful motions, she shows them 
how much better it is to roll the pota¬ 
toes out without bruises than to cut or 
maul them out with the hoe, or spear 
them out with the hook. Then they try 
to do the same thing in the same way, 
and the potatoes for the meal or day’s 
supply are soon dug, and not mauled or 
slashed all in pieces. Well, this is but 
one lesson, but many more are given in 
the same way. These seem small and 
perchance unimportant things to talk of, 
but. these of us who have come to be of 
any use to ourselves or the world, have 
had to travel the same road that we 
strive to point out to the little ones. We 
sometimes fear that if logically followed 
out, the present system of father and 
mother doing the necessary work and 
the drudgery, too, while the boys and 
girls do the football or basketball act, 
or practice on the fancy work, will ere 
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