1900. 
THE RURAt NEW-YORKER 
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Celery Slow to Bleach. 
K. B. D., Lamar, Mo .—Please tell me 
how can I bleach my celery ? I have a 
fine lot of it, Burpee’s Winter Queen. I 
have the earth drawn up to it within a 
hand's length of the top, and then have a 
foot board down on both sides, and did 
have gunnysacks covered over the top. but 
it does not seem to bleach. It is just as 
sweet and tender, though it is green. 
Ought I to pour water on it and keep the 
roots wet? 
Ans. —I find only one thing lacking 
in this celery trouble, namely, patience. 
This variety is one of the best Winter 
sorts. I think it the most popular. 
There is nothing more to be done, other 
than keep it from freezing and not 
allow it to get too wet, in which case 
it is apt to cause rot. If the frost 
is guarded against it will surely bleach. 
The Winter Queen variety of celery 
is one of the long keepers. Why? Sim¬ 
ply because it stays green longer. Once 
a bunch of celery is thoroughly 
bleached its keeping qualities are done, 
the approach of cold weather, she had 
practically a whole green plant, hence 
it will take a much longer time to 
bleach it than it would had it been 
kept banked up, little by little as the 
plant grew, all through the Fall. 
C. C. HULSART. 
A Mail Clerk Talks. 
In a recent issue you said you were look¬ 
ing for information, and asked the ques¬ 
tion if a Government employee ever 
amounted to much in business after leav¬ 
ing tlie service; also that an employee usu¬ 
ally thought it needed two to perform the 
work that one had done before, etc. I am 
in the Railway Mail Service, which is the 
only branch of the service I know very 
much about, but feel that we earn all we 
get in that branch of the service. I have 
known several to quit the Railway Mail 
Service and make more in business than 
their salary was. I live on an 11-acre 
place here, use my spare time, which is 
given me for rest and study, in cleaning 
up and improving the place. This would 
seem strange to a city man, but for a 
man who was raised on a farm it is rest 
“TIIE SNOW MAN.” 
FUN FOR NORTHERN BOYS. Fig. 33. 
and it should be used at once. The 
popular method of bleaching all varie¬ 
ties of Winter celery after frost has 
arrived is to take it up from the rows 
where it grew and pack it in trenches, 
dug in a well-drained piece of ground 
and the depth corresponding to the 
height of the celery. The plants are 
lifted, with all the dirt that will na¬ 
turally adhere to the roots, and packed 
in these trenches about three plants 
abreast, and shoved in as close as pos¬ 
sible, packing earth tightly around the 
roots, as they are put in. If the soil 
is dry it should be made quite wet, but 
avoid getting the leaves or stalks wet. 
The plants should not be handled 
when placed in the trench when there 
is any water or even a heavy dew on 
them, for it is apt to cause rot. 
When the trench is filled make an 
A-shaped roof of boards of sufficient 
width to cover trench. This is all that 
is necessary until danger of freezing; 
leave both ends of trench open for ven¬ 
tilation. As weather becomes cold, 
cover with straw or marsh hay, and 
finally with earth from each side of the 
trench, so placed as to carry the water 
off in case of heavy rains. The time 
celery handled in this way will be ready 
for market, will depend to a large ex¬ 
tent on how warm or how cool it has 
been kept. The cooler it is kept after 
being placed in the trench the longer 
it will be in bleaching. Many do not 
seem to know what really takes place in 
the process of bleaching this plant. 
'W hen celery plants are placed in a 
bleaching trench and wet earth packed 
around their roots the first thing that 
takes place is that hundreds of new 
rootlets start, this gives the plant op¬ 
portunity to take up moisture. Then 
new leaves begin to form in the cen¬ 
ter, and as its growth proceeds it ab¬ 
sorbs what was stored up in the out¬ 
side leaves, and these wither and come 
off. Now if our friend left this cel¬ 
ery without banking up at all until near 
Indeed from the strenuous life of a postal 
clerk. We get good pay, but our expenses 
are liigh and the work is bard. b. e. d. 
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