1904. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
765 
NOTES ON INDIANA FARMING. 
Nitrate on Tomatoes. —Where nitrate of 
soda, at the rate o_f 80 pounds per acre, was 
used on my tomato plants after setting, a few 
test rows were left without this fertilizer. Up 
to the present time there is practically no 
difference between these rows and those on 
either side of them, either in growth of vines, 
amount, size or quality of fruit or time of 
ripening. A few rows where double this 
amount of nitrate was used made a larger 
growth of vines, but with little if any more 
fruit, which was damaged by rotting much 
worse than any other portion of the field. 
Shredded Corn Fodder. —While the advent 
of silos and corn shredded here has greatly 
increased the amount of corn fodder cut and 
saved, yet we find many fields where the 
stalks are left standing, to be pastured dur¬ 
ing the Winter, and in some localities the old 
practice of “topping” the corn is still quite 
common. The tops are cuj off above the ear, 
placed in bunches, and while damp with dew 
in the morning these bundles are tied and 
placed in shocks to be hauled in and fed dur¬ 
ing the Winter. While much of the feeding 
value of the stalks is lost in this way, it is a 
cheap and easy method of saving a portion 
of the crop that would be lost if left standing 
in the field. 
Early Sowing of Wheat. —There will be 
more wheat sown in September this season 
than for several years past, owing to the fact 
that early sown wheat the past season was 
much better than the later, and also to the 
comparatively slight injury from Hessian fly 
in this section. There are many who believe 
that this return to early sowing will tend to 
increase the ravages of the fly again, which 
has apparently been greatly diminished here 
in the past year. 
Seeding Timothy Alone. —It has not been 
many years since this method of seeding was 
almost unheard of here, but it seems to be 
gaining ground each year. In nearly every 
case that I have noticed the mistake has been 
made of a lack of thoroughness in preparing 
the ground. Perhaps it would be more accu¬ 
rate to say that the time given to this prep¬ 
aration was insufficient for the purpose; that 
is, the killing of all weeds before the seeding 
was done. As a result of this lack of care 
weeds have almost invariably been abundant 
in these meadows. In most cases, too, the 
seed has not been sown until the latter part 
of September, while much better results have 
been obtained where it was sown in August. 
Canton, Ind. F. j. H. 
NORTHERN GARDEN NOTES. 
Preparing for Another Season. —Octo¬ 
ber is a good month to prepare parts of 
the garden that have been cleared of crops 
for next Spring. Manure that has been 
made during the Summer may now be 
hauled and plowed under, especially on the 
onion patch, the soil to be left rough just 
as it leaves the plow. The action of frost 
during Winter helps to decompose the 
coarser portions, adding humus as well as 
fertility; also making the soil earlier and 
in a fine mellow condition for extra early 
crops. In the case of the onion patch a 
liberal dressing of a good complete fer¬ 
tilizer and a thorough harrowing as soon 
as the ground dries off in the Spring will 
fit it ready to receive the seed without re¬ 
plowing. Early peas, spinach, early cab¬ 
bage, radishes and lettuce can be grown 
successfully on land prepared as above if 
the harrowing has been thoroughly done, 
and from one to two weeks can be gained 
in pushing the Spring work along. 
Celery. —To keep celery during the 
Winter has been a perplexing job for 
many amateur gardeners, and most of 
them have made the mistake of keeping it 
too warm, causing it to rot. I have had 
the best result from keeping the celery in 
trenches in the open ground. Select a 
piece of well-drained porous soil, a side 
hill preferred, where we are sure that no 
water will remain in the trenches. Dig 
with a spade a trench as narrow as possi¬ 
ble up and down the hill, so that the heavy 
rains of early Winter cannot remain in the 
trenches. The trenches should be dug as 
deep as the celery is tall (roots and tops). 
A few inches deeper will do no harm, pro¬ 
vided the edges do not cave in after the 
celery is put away. The usual time to 
put in trenches is after we have had a few 
sharp frosts. Select an afternoon when 
there is no dew or moisture on the foliage. 
Take down one side of tne banking, then 
lift out the plants without pulling, as any 
injury to the tender stalks is liable to 
cause rot. If conditions are favorable a 
portion of the soil adhering to the roots 
can be removed. The celery is then placed 
in the trenches in an upright position, and 
the roots crowded together by the feet. 
Never put straw or other litter in the 
trenches, as it is liable to encourage mice. 
After the trenches are filled allow the tops 
to be exposed until quite severe weather. 
As the cold increases a light covering of 
old sacks on cold frosty nights will be suf¬ 
ficient protection. Later in the season, 
just before the ground freezes up, a fur¬ 
ther protection made from 10-inch boards 
nailed together in the shape of a V trough 
is turned upside down over the trenches, 
then covered with a thin layer of straw 
to keep the soil from freezing to the 
boards. The soil should cover the furrow 
about four to six inches deep. The ends 
are left open to allow plenty of air to cir¬ 
culate under the troughs. If more than 
one length of boards is used a space of 
four to six inches should be left between 
the ends, which can be filled up with 
straw when the weather is so severe as to 
injure the celery. After the Winter has 
set in for good a covering of a foot of 
strawy manure will keep the soil covering 
from freezing very hard, so that when the 
celery is wanted a portion may be uncov¬ 
ered and the celery can be removed from 
the end. The vacant space should be 
filled with straw and again closed. Celery 
can be kept in a cellar provided the tem¬ 
perature is close to 38 degrees and the tops 
dry and roots moist. 
Endive should be removed to the cellar 
before the ground freezes. If it has been 
tied for some time it will have the appear¬ 
ance of being decayed on the outside, but 
if taken up with a portion of ground ad¬ 
hering to the roots and placed upright in 
a shallow box it will keep most of the 
Winter. john jeannin, jr. 
Thick-Necked Onions. 
J. 8. G., Moravia, N. Y .—What is the mat¬ 
ter with my onions? They will not form 
bulbs. They were sown the last of May in 
the ordinary way, and well taken care of, but 
they continue to grow all to tops. Very rank 
and thick at the top of the ground, some an 
inch or more thick, the bottom not much 
larger. Some tell me they have been blighted, 
but if so how can they keep so green? 
Ans. —There may be several causes 
why the onions have not bottomed. Un¬ 
doubtedly in this case the seed was sown 
too late, and the cool and wet weather 
are the proper conditions for rapid 
growth. I have had similar results where 
a large quantity of raw un fermented ma¬ 
nure was used in the Spring or where an 
excessive amount of hen manure contain¬ 
ing plenty of nitrogen was used; then 
again where the onion patch is poorly 
drained it will invariably produce thick 
necks. Occasionally a poor quality of 
seed will produce like results. 
JOHN JEANNIN, JR. 
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