THE RU RAL NEW-YORKER 
401 
1911. 
A NEARLY YEAR-AROUND VEGETABLE 
GARDEN. 
I shall endeavor to give you a brief 
history of how I used vegetables from 
my garden every month from April to 
March. In September, 1909, I sowed 
some spinach in between the strawberry 
rows. After the ground was frozen I 
mulched the berries with long stable 
manure. This furnished some little pro¬ 
tection for the spinach. On February 22 
I planted some lettuce seed in a cold 
frame. Lettuce plants I set in the 
open ground on April 2. Some lettuce 
was left in the frame, and this was 
ready for use in April, not waiting for 
it to head but using the leaves. April 7 
I began to use spinach; on the 16th used 
first lettuce, and on the 28th we used 
the first rhubarb. These three consti¬ 
tuted the variety for April. On May 4 
we ate our first radishes and picked the 
first ripe strawberries on the 18th; five 
varieties of truck in May. June 4 pulled 
our first beets; on June 8 used our first 
peas; dug potatoes on June 25, and'ate 
beans on June 28; these four additional 
gave us a list of nine in June. 
On July 8 used our first sugar corn, 
Peep o' Day variety; tomatoes on the 
12th, squash on the 20th, pumpkin on the 
25th, so that in July we had green and 
wax beans, peas, lettuce, beets, potatoes, 
rhubarb, onions, corn, tomatoes, squash 
and pumpkin; 12 varieties of truck that 
month. August 1 we added cucumbers 
and Lima beans to our bill of fare, also 
radishes during the month. The only 
new dishes added in September were 
eggplant and celery. Peppers and cab¬ 
bage came in October. Potatoes were 
dug on July 3 and furnished our supply 
until February 1. We had radishes un¬ 
til the ground froze. On November 2 
we picked all the green tomatoes off 
the vines and spread out newspapers on 
cement bottom of cellar, and laid the 
tomatoes on these papers, always hand¬ 
ling very carefully. As the tomatoes 
ripened we continued to use them into 
early January, when they were ex¬ 
hausted. On Thanksgiving Day I dug 
trench beside Winter Queen celery, and 
setting other celery beside it two roots 
wide I pulled soil to the roots of the 
dug celery, and then placing pieces of 
thin boards to keep the dirt from the 
stalks, I banked up soil outside these 
boards to their tops. Then I put 12-inch 
boards on top ‘of this bank, and farther 
apart than the inside boards, and filled 
between the top boards with leaves, j 
placing boards on top to keep the water 
off. When the weather got colder 1 
bound my stalks in bundles and laid the 
bundles so as to protect the celery all 
I could. When I want to get some celery 
to use I remove the top board and un- ' 
cover the leaves, dig the celery wanted, 
replace the leaves and boards. I have 
been using celery every week since Sep¬ 
tember 17. We have also had parsnips 
right along as we needed them since 
the ground was first frozen, as we 
think a parsnip is lacking in sweetness 
of flavor until frozen. I dig a few at a 
time as wanted for use. 
I am writing this on March 8 and I 
yet have celery and parsnips enough ; 
to last until I need to clear the ground 
for 1911 crops. Some may say that my ' 
list is very limited, which is true, but it 
could very readily be increased if you 
care for some other varieties. 1 am 
situated in New Jersey in the latitude 
of Philadelphia. You see that it is now 
more than 11 months since I began, 
which makes it nearly a year-around 
garden. stanton kirkbride. 
New Jersey. 
An Arkansas Lawn. 
C. H. A., Ozark, Ark .-—Just two years 
ago I came to Arkansas to build up a farm 
home, and chose the Ozarks in the north¬ 
west part of the State. I have a level, 
fertile plot of ground that I wish to de¬ 
vote to shrubs, trees, vines and flowers, 
and convert into a lawn. Can a man of 
moderate means keep up a lawn of one 
acre and do a reasonable amount of farm¬ 
ing, considering that above yard is full of 
shrubs, etc.? How often does Bermuda 
grass have to be mowed to maintain a 
smooth, rich, velvety surface? 
Ans. —When once started there is no 
reason why a man of moderate means 
cannot keep an acre of lawn in good 
order while doing his farm work. Ber¬ 
muda grass should be mown as other 
grasses as fast as the machine will catch 
it. But it is only a sun-loving and hot 
weather grass. Bermuda will make a 
good Summer lawn if not too much 
shaded, but it will not grow in the shade 
of trees or shrubbery, and it is brown 
all Winter. You would far better make 
the lawn of a mixture of Red-top, Rhode 
Island Bent grass and Blue grass in 
equal parts, and use seed enough to 
make the soil gray all over. I use 
about five bushels of grass seed an acre 
for a lawn, and rake it in nicely and roll 
if the soil is dry. Then start the lawn 
mower as soon as the grass is tall 
enough to catch, and in all favorable 
weather mow once a week, and leave 
all the cut grass to settle down and 
help the sod. Tf the grass is cut fre¬ 
quently you will not have to rake it, 
and it is far better to leave the cut 
grass as a mulch. An annual top-dress¬ 
ing of bone meal will keep the grass 
in good shape. Do not be afraid that 
Blue grass will not do there. I had a 
lawn at the North Carolina Station in 
a warmer climate than the Ozarks and 
fully exposed to the sun, and I had there 
a sod of Kentucky Blue grass as 
springy as a mattress, no grass ever be¬ 
ing raked off. A light dressing of lime 
once in five years will greatly help the 
grass. The Red-top and the Rhode Is¬ 
land grass will come in faster than the 
Blue grass, but the Blue grass will 
finally make the sod, and it will grow 
in shade where the Bermuda will not. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
“A penny mouse trap, please. And 
let me have it quickly, as I want to catch 
a train !”—London Opinion. 
Bub: “Father, who was Shylock?” 
Father: “Shame on you, Bub! Go study 
your Bible !”—Purple Cow. 
ORCHARD CULTIVATOR 
THE FORKNER LIGHT DRAFT HARROW 
is the only perfect Halit tunning wheel cultivator 
ever ottered for orchard work. Each section is 
so easily manipulated with levers that a small 
hoy can operate it and cultivate perfectly 20 acres 
per day with one team of medium weight. With 
this harrow one team can easily do the work of 
two teams with ordinary harrows. Works well 
in stumpy or stony land and does not clog with 
loose grass, roots, etc. Its extension of 11 ft., 
•* ‘2 tt. each side of the team, enables perfect dust 
mulching near the tree trunks without disturb- 
ing the branches or fruit, and eliminates tho use 
of the hoe. One machine will work 101) acres of 
orchard and keep it in garden tilth. These ma¬ 
chines are labor savers and will reduce your 
cultivating expenses one-half, even if you have 
but live or ten acres of orchard. Full particu¬ 
lars on request. Address 
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dark. 
AKE a look at the picture above. 
Notice the prosperous farmer who 
has just returned from town after 
He is in the act of lighting up his 
barn and the space in front with same 
light his family is using in the house. 
This he does without a match of any 
kind. 
He simply walks up and pulls a little 
short chain, and presto, he has it—a flood 
of beautiful, white Acetylene Light. 
If you have ever lived on a farm you 
will appreciate the advantages, the com¬ 
fort and the satisfaction of a barn light 
that can be turned on without a match. 
You can probably recall many a cold 
winter night when you came home numb 
with the cold, and with fingers all thumbs 
tried to unbutton two coats to find a 
match, which you tried to scratch on a 
damp board. After which you probably 
fought a few rounds with a smoky light¬ 
ning-bug lantern, and put in an hour 
doing chores, that you could have done in 
half the time with such a light as the one 
shown in the picture. 
* * * 
In many cases farmers have a light put 
on the back porch where it can be in¬ 
stantly turned on to illuminate the yard, 
and a light in the cow barn to make milk¬ 
ing easy, as well as one inside and one in 
front of the horse barn. 
All these lights come in mighty handy, 
too, when there is trouble among the 
stock, or a sick animal to take care of 
through the night. 
These barn and out-building lights are 
of course enclosed in solid globes, and 
can be fastened anywhere they are 
wanted—in front of the stalls, in the har¬ 
ness room, to the barn ceiling, to a post, 
or the top of any door, inside or outside. 
It may surprise you 
to know that just \ \\ 1 f / / 
such lighting plants 
as the one we have 
illustrated have been 
installed in over 185,- '//T' 
900 farm and eoun- ' > ‘ 
try homes in the 
United States. 
In every case an 
automatic tank-like machine, called 
a generator, is set up in one cor¬ 
ner of the basement, or in an out¬ 
building, and from this machine the 
Acetylene which makes the light is car¬ 
ried through common gas pipes to hand 
some chandeliers in every room in the 
house and to other lights located all 
over the place. 
That’s all there is to an Acetylene 
Light Plant. Just the generator, the 
pipes, and the fixtures. 
Such a plant can be set up in from 
two to four days by any man who 
can cut and fit pipe, and without incon¬ 
veniencing the family, or injuring walls 
or carets. 
* * * 
As a matter of fact, enclosed Acetylene 
Burners, permanently fixed to walls, ceil¬ 
ing and posts and equipped to light by 
the pull of a chain without matches, are 
the safest lights ever installed on a farm. 
Most fires on farms are caused by the 
careless handling of lanterns and matches 
by hired help. 
Consequently, any scheme of lighting 
that can be operated without matches, 
lanterns or lamps reduces the risk of fire 
to the minimum. 
And that is why the engineers of the 
National Board of Fire Underwriters 
have declared Acetylene Light to be much 
safer than the tip-over lights it is so 
rapidly displacing. 
Add to these features of safety the 
fact that the light, volume considered, 
costs less than Kerosene. 
And the fact that it is made from 
UNION CARBIDE, a form of crushed 
stone that will not burn and is as easily 
stored as brick. 
And the fact that you, yourself, can in 
20 minutes make all the Acetylene you 
need to light your place one month. 
# * # 
Sum all these facts up and you will 
see that this light is a convenience YOU 
WANT and that you should write to us 
today for estimate as to the cost of this 
wonderful rural gas 
light for your own 
farm. 
We will gladly send 
figures and very inter¬ 
esting illustrated 
booklets, free. Just 
tell us where your 
place is located, give 
us an idea of its size 
and address your letter or postal to 
Union Carbide Sales Co., 157 
Michigan Avenue, Chicago, II l* 
Department I, — 38. 
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