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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
A FARMER’S GARDEN. 
Vegetables the Year Around. 
The first days of April, 1911, were 
pleasant, and the ground looked quite 
dry, so after dinner one day my hus¬ 
band said “If you will sprout those 
early seed potatoes I will plow that 
ground where we had sweet corn last 
year, and we will put some potatoes 
in.” In what seemed a very short 
time to me he was back, and we 
started out, each with a pail; we use 
Early Everett and plant good-sized 
whole potatoes. My husband is a very 
particular farmer, and insists on the 
ground being thoroughly fitted; ima¬ 
gine my surprise to find that he had 
only plowed that ground, which was a 
gravelly loam. He said we would 
plant them by putting a heel down 
firmly between the furrows, drop the 
potato in and cover with dirt, place 
rows in every other furrow. It began 
to rain before the last row was fin¬ 
ished. Before morning the ground was 
covered with snow, and I wished our 
seed potatoes were back in the cellar. 
As soon as the ground became dry, they 
were dragged. I remarked to my hus¬ 
band that those potatoes after drag¬ 
ging that way would probably look like 
a field of sowed corn. “Never mind,” 
he said, “there will be new potatoes 
July 4.” They came up in good time 
straight as rows could be, and how 
they grew! The ground was covered 
with vines when they commenced to 
blossom. The first day of July we had 
new potatoes, nice size and dry. My 
husband looked at me with a twinkle in 
his eye, and asked, “Did you find those 
potatoes in rows or were they broad¬ 
cast like sowed corn?” We used from 
those potatoes until Fall, when the oth¬ 
ers in the field were ripe, and had seed 
for another year. At this time we also 
gave the asparagus a coat of salt and 
heavy blanket of manure. The rhubarb 
was worked up, and had a coat of 
manure finished with a top-dressing of 
straw. Our garden is enclosed with a 
woven wire fence, so next the fence a 
trench was dug, and manure placed in 
the bottom covered with dirt. Here we 
planted peas, Early Alaska and Cham¬ 
pion of England being our favorites. 
We planted beets, radishes, lettuce and 
onions with the garden drill, also man¬ 
gel beets to be used in Winter for poul¬ 
try; parsley, curled mustard and spin¬ 
ach. We use Early Egyptian beet, and 
plant several times; when they are ten¬ 
der and a little larger than eggs, I boil 
them until tender, place in cold water, 
slip the peel off and slice in fruit cans; 
cover with vinegar with a little sugar 
and salt and seal, vinegar to be boil¬ 
ing when turned over them, and we 
have a supply of beets all the year. For 
home use we like the small scarlet tur¬ 
nip radish planted frequently, and 
Black-Seeded Simpson lettuce. We 
have a bed of Multiplier onions near 
the garden fence, that furnished all our 
early onions and sets. We plant Yel¬ 
low Globe Danvers for use through the 
Summer and Winter; when pulled in 
the Fall they are topped and dried, then 
allowed to freeze solid; placed in a box 
with alternate layers of chaff placed in 
the cellar, they will keep perfectly, and 
are very mild and tender. 
The hotbed is started about the mid¬ 
dle of April. I do not have a glass top, 
only a frame covered with burlap. I 
sow large sweet pepper seed, Spark’s 
Earliana tomato, for early fruits, and 
Stone for late; Golden Self Blanching 
celery gives us the best results, and 
keeps well. The cabbage and cauliflow¬ 
er seeds are sowed in beds in the gar¬ 
den, we like Early Snowball cauliflower, 
Early Jersey Wakefield cabbage fot; 
early, and Danish Ball Head for the 
late crop. With the early sowing of 
seeds we put in the Hollow Crown par¬ 
snip and Mammoth salsify. 
As soon as it is warm enough we 
finish our planting, planting carrots, 
bush Lima beans, and for the main crop 
of beans Lazy Housewife pole beans 
where they run on the woven fence. 
Any beans left in the Fall are shelled 
and dried. In Winter I soak these 
over night, parboil with a little soda, 
drain, cook slowly till done, add milk, 
pepper, salt, butter and thicken slightly, 
and they could hardly be told from 
fresh ones. Peas are also used the same 
way only they must be dried when 
young and tender. 
We have sweet corn planted at in¬ 
tervals ; some of this is canned and 
dried, so we have a good supply the 
year around. We also plant popcorn; 
White Rice is a good variety. The lit¬ 
tle lad has charge of this. We are very 
fond of melons, and plant the early 
Hackensack muskmelon and an early 
variety of watermelon. Cucumbers are 
planted in hills and as soon as they are 
March 9, 
about a finger long they are gathered, 
placed in a crock containing one gal¬ 
lon vinegar (cold), one cup mustard; 
these will keep perfectly if kept under 
the vinegar in an open crock, and they 
are crisp as when first picked. I also 
salt some, place a layer of salt in a 
crock, add a layer of cucumbers, then 
one of horse-radish leaves, finishing 
with horse-radish; they will keep if 
kept under the brine for two years. We 
like the Long Green variety. We 
plant Hubbard and Delicious squash, 
small pie pumpkins; these are placed 
near tire furnace on the cellar floor, 
and will dry down, and keep until 
Spring. We also like a few strap- 
leaved turnips, and rutabagas. 
When we are ready to set the cab¬ 
bage in the garden we make a mellow 
soil and see them at night if possible. 
When they are done growing they are 
pulled, turned head down on the ground, 
straw is placed on them, then a light 
coat of earth to hold the straw in 
place, and they are equal to buried cab¬ 
bage all Winter. We plant out no less 
than 50 tomato plants and can quanti¬ 
ties. I must give a receipt found in the 
R. N.-Y. years ago: Peel small toma¬ 
toes, place whole in the cans, salt 
slightly, cover with boiling water, and 
drop in a boiler of hot water “after 
sealing,” and leave until cdol, they will 
keep perfectly. We also make tomato 
pickle, chili sauce, catsup, piccalilli, as 
well as other pickles. 
Now as to care of the garden. We 
usually have to weed it by hand at 
least twice aside from hoeing, and us¬ 
ing the hand cultivator. We never try 
to work the garden after chores, it 
only takes about a day thoroughly to 
work it over. The children are inter¬ 
ested and help with this work. With 
the fence a mass of sweet peas and 
scarlet runner beans, morning glories, 
as well as the beans, and peas, with a 
collection of roses, to which we add a 
few each year, the sweet herbs and 
garden pinks, it is not a hard place to 
work. On Christmas Day I served a 
dinner to 20 people, father, brothers, 
sister and their families, this being the 
first time in years we had been together 
at Christmas. I served an old-fash¬ 
ioned dinner such as the loved mother 
who was taken from us long ago used 
to serve. Here is what we served: 
Oysters raw with cider vinegar or toma¬ 
to catsup; milk stew of oysters, crack¬ 
ers; sweet potatoes, mashed Irish pota¬ 
toes; four roasted chickens stuffed, 
with gravy; steamed Hubbard squash; 
celery, cabbage salad; small crisp cu¬ 
cumber pickles, piccalilli, Astrachan jel¬ 
ly, brown bread, buns, apple butter; 
mince and pumpkin pie, with cheese; 
fruit cake, white cake, coffee; nuts, 
candy, and oranges. Here is what it 
cost aside from what was raised on the 
farm and in the garden. 
Sweet potatoes .25 
Celery .30 
Qoffee .30 
Cheese .40 
Oysters, 2)4 qts. 1.25 
Crackers .50 
Candy, Nuts .75 
Oranges .50 
$4.15 
Our celery last year was not a suc¬ 
cess. AN OHIO FARMER'S WIFE. 
New Hampshire Deer. 
Your Connecticut correspondent who signs 
himself “Farmer,” had experience with deer 
so different from mine that I will tell 
my story and let others judge which is 
farthest from the actual course of things. 
I live •within two miles of the center of 
a city of 76.000 people, where wild animals 
are supposed to be scarce, yet the deer 
came into my garden and ate off the tops 
of the family strawberry patch ivlien plants 
were in bloom, so we only got three boxes 
where we might have had a bushel. They 
ate off three dozen tomato plants, ail we 
had, all but one plant in two rows of sun¬ 
flowers and 225 hills of beans. Some of 
the beans sprouted up and grew later, so 
we had string beans and a few to shell, but 
most of the pods were immature when the 
frost came, and I lost at least a bushel of 
beans, and as I paid 55 cents a quart for 
the seed it was quite a disappointment, 
but we small farmers are not to be counted 
in the game. I have had deer come and 
cat apples from the tree, and could not 
scare them so, but they would follow me 
right back until I escorted them some dis¬ 
tance away and peppered their legs with 
bird shot. If they do not eat corn they are 
fond of beet greens and green peas, as I 
learned last Summer, in addition to what I 
have previously named. Perhaps we have 
a breed of better feeders up here. 
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