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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 3, 
A DAY’S WORK. 
A New Jersey Garden. 
TnJs is Thursday morning, April 3. The 
sun rose bright and warm, with every 
indication of fair weather ruling the day. 
The ground is in fine condition for seed 
sowing and the setting out of early vege¬ 
table plants. We have therefore decided 
to devote the day to this work, but before 
commencing the day's operations in the 
garden, the chores must be properly at¬ 
tended to; the laying hens must be given 
their morning rations, and each pen sup¬ 
plied with fresh water, sufficient for the 
day. The hens that are hatching must 
also be carefully looked after and supplied 
with feed and water. The incubator, which 
is running in the cellar, will need at¬ 
tention this morning; lamp must be filled, 
wick trimmed, the egg tray taken out, 
eggs turned and cooled. It is now eight 
o’clock, the morning chores are all finished 
and we are ready to commence our work 
in the garden. 
The ground was spaded and made ready 
for seed sowing more than a week ago, 
but the heavy rains since then have beaten 
the surface down hard, so we will - have 
to go over it again with the steel hand 
rakes, loosening, fining and leveling the 
surface, to put it in the proper condition 
for planting. The onion sets have become 
somewhat impatient and have made more 
or less top growth, so we proceed to plant 
them first. With a planting line the 
ground is laid out in rows 16 inches apart, 
the marking being done with the rake 
handle. The marking should be done, so as 
to leave a narrow trench about one inch 
deep. Into this mark we set the onions 
about two inches apart, pressing them 
slightly into the soil so they will stand 
upright. As each row is finished the back 
of the rake is drawn over it lengthwise. 
This operation covers the onions lightly 
with loose soil, which will prevent them 
from washing out, should a heavy rain¬ 
fall occur before they are rooted. We 
always plant the largest sets first, as 
they are nearly always ready for use in 
the green state before the smaller ones, 
many of them will go to seed if allowed 
to remain. By having the large sets all 
planted together we can keep a closer 
watch on them and pull and use them 
at the first signs of throwing up a seed 
stalk. The small sets rarely go to seed. 
These are allowed to mature into large 
bulbs which we harvest when ripe and store 
for Winter use. 
The onion planting being finished we 
proceed to sow such hardy vegetables as 
spinach, beets, carrots, radishes, kohl rabi, 
leek, chervil and parsley. All of the above 
are sown in shallow drills 16 inches apart, 
the ground being lined off and drills made 
with the rake handle in the same manner 
as described, in our onion planting, but in 
most cases the drill or trench is not ipade 
quite so deep. After the seed of each 
variety is sown we go over each row with 
the foot, covering and treading the seed 
lightly. This firms the soil over and for 
a short distance on each side of the seed, 
which will prevent the soil drying out 
too quickly and the germinating seed or 
young plants suffering damage should rain 
be delayed for any length of time. After 
the rows have been gone over with the 
foot, the operation is finished with the 
back of the rake, it being drawn over the 
row lengthwise, and is done as rapidly as 
a man cares to walk. 
Next we sow Swiss chard and French 
sorrel. The sowing is done in the same 
manner as for the seed previously sown, 
except we make the rows wider apart. 
Chard and sorrel should be sown in rows 
not less than 20 inches apart. 
Peas come next; this we sow in dounle 
rows, 12 inches apart, and from three to 
four feet space between these double rows, 
according to how tall the varieties grow. 
Early, second early and midseason are 
sown at the same time. We open trenches 
or furrows with the hand plow about three 
inches deep, in which we sow the peas 
rather thick, as we are never sure of 
the percentage of germination. After the 
seed are sown we pull the soil over them 
from one side of the furrow with the 
hand rake, then tread it down firmly 
with the feet, usually going over the row 
twice, after which the loose soil from the 
other side is drawn over the seed and 
allowed to remain loose as it is drawn 
over the seed. This will form a loose, 
mellow covering and admit of the young 
plants coming through the surface easily. 
Treading the soil over and on each side 
of the seed with the feet will prevent 
rapid drying out of the soil around the 
roots in dry weather, and greatly prolong 
larger yield of fine peas. 
Dinner has been announced, so we will 
have to suspend work for the space of 
one hour to satisfy our hunger. This we 
can do with a clear conscience, as we 
feel we have done an honest half day's 
work. One o’clock finds us again in the 
garden much refreshed, and ready for the 
afternoon’s work. 
Our seed sowing having been finished be¬ 
fore dinner, we will confine our after- 
dinner operations to setting out lettuce, 
cabbage and cauliflower plants. These 
plants were raised from seed sown in 
the hotbed in the middle of February, and 
are now large, thrifty plants; they have 
been exposed to the weather day and 
night for 10 days and are well hardened 
and in good fit condition for setting in 
the open ground. They will not make 
much top growth for two or three weeks, 
but will be making a strong root growth 
during that time and when the weather 
warms up later on they will grow so fast 
one can almost see them moving. We 
always plant our lettuce in rows 16 inches 
apart and one foot apart in the row. Our 
early cabbage we plant in rows 30 inches 
apart and 16 to 20 inches apart in the 
row. according to the variety. In plant¬ 
ing lettuce, cabbage and cauliflower in the 
the open ground we always firm the soil 
well about the roots, especially the cabbage 
and cauliflower, for if they are loosely 
planted they will not make a prompt 
start, and if the weather should turn dry 
much of the crop will not come to ma¬ 
turity. The setting sun warns us that it 
is about quitting time, of this we are not 
sorry. The busy day has tired us some¬ 
what. but we feel pleased that we were 
able to accomplish what we set out to 
do, and the work has been well done, and 
we feel confident we shall in due time 
reap a bountiful crop of such vegetables as 
we have sown and planted to-day. k. 
Monmouth Co., N. J. 
More About Corn Testing. 
I have read the corn testing article on 
page 489. At the meeting of our Lenawee 
County Horticultural Society the other day, 
the matter of seed corn testing was being 
considered. One practical man declared 
that if corn had been picked early and 
cured in a warm dry room, it is sure to 
be good. A greenhouse man stated that 
"he would prefer to have his seed-corn 
tested in the hothouse to any other place. 
This idea seemed to prevail, no less on 
account of my having several fine-looking 
ears of corn that were condemned, and 
a chart of about 100 ears from which 
these and some others had been tested out. 
In a bunch of cattle or sheep some will 
have better vitality than others, and I 
could not persuade those people t6 realize 
that I prefer to use ears whose corn lacks 
vitality for feed for stock than to plant. 
The hothouse man demonstrated his point, 
by saying he preferred to plant his corn 
to be tested in the hothouse. We need to 
learn that nearly or quite all this discarded 
corn will grow in the hothouse if given 
time enough. But what will the weak 
corn do in the field with a spell of cold 
rain and north winds just after planting, 
lasting two weeks. These are conditions 
that often occur during May and June. 
“Ohio Boy” discards such as do not show 
up in two or two and one-half days, under 
good treatment. 
I have used several forms of testers, 
and think I can vary them all, to get 
the same results. I will mention what I 
consider by far the cheapest and most sim¬ 
ple form of tester I have seen. In a 
warm and dry attic 1 have wires stretched 
permanently for seed corn. Other wires 
are cut off about a foot long and with 
pliers a small hook is turned in one end 
of each wire, to hang over the wires in 
the attic. The other end of one of these 
short wires is forced into the pith of the 
cob to each ear of seed corn when husked, 
where it hangs until needed, and is away 
from mice. When the corn has been 
tested and the best shelled for seed the 
hook wires are put into a box and saved 
for the next crop. When ready to test, 
some strips of cloth about nine inches 
wide, and three feet long, are secured and 
one is laid on a table. Kernels taken from 
different parts of the ear are placed in 
little piles, one pile for each ear, and 
the ears hung in rotation on the wire, the 
same as the corn goes upon the cloth. 
Allow two or three inches on the cloth 
to each pile of kernels. With a soft 
lead pencil number the cloth, either upon 
the cloth itself, if white, or upon a paper 
to be enclosed with the corn. .Commence 
at one end and roll carefully, and wrap 
securely with small cord and tie so the 
corn cannot be displaced. Give the same 
number to the section of corn from which 
it was taken. Near one end test an ear 
of pop or sweet corn or red dent, or some 
corn that is readily distinguished from 
that being tested, and there will be no 
danger of getting the cloth wrong end to, 
when comparing results. 
The rolls can be hung on the wires 
away from mice until there are enough 
to test out. Put them all together and 
tie them with cord. Put warm water (not 
hot) into a pail and immerse for a few 
hours, then wrap in cloths, papers and 
blankets, and keep in a warm place. After 
36 hours immerse the roll again in warm 
water, drain and wrap as before. When 
the sprouts are about an inch long examine 
them, and you will be surprised at the 
difference in vitality taken at this stage. 
We can well afford to plant the strong 
ears, and feed out the weak ones. This 
method was developed for use in schools 
in teaching agriculture, and is equally good 
for older scholars. It costs little, makes 
little dirt, is easily portable to any place. 
When one or more rolls are filled, the work 
can be laid aside for the time being, and 
others done later, all to be tested out to¬ 
gether. Cloths can be saved and used 
again for any number of years, lleat and 
moisture are needed to germinate seeds. 
Light is rquired for plant growth, but not 
for germination. Any form of seed tester 
is adapted to heat and moisture. By re¬ 
moving the test early, we do not get re¬ 
sults from many kernels that would grow 
if given a little more time. In bad, cold 
weather many of those slow kernels, of low 
vitality, are sure to die and decay. 
Michigan. e. w. allis. 
A Heating Problem.— Will you put up to 
your readers the following heating proposi¬ 
tion? It would no doubt be helpful to 
many if feasible. We have built an addi¬ 
tion to house containing about 6600 cubic 
feet, all on the second and third floors. In 
the basement we have a large open fireplace. 
We would like to deepen this and put up¬ 
right against the back of the fireplace 10 
two-inch pipes connected top and bottom 
with manifolds, put on expansion tank in 
attic. Will this heat the space we have? 
Shall we get steam or hot water heat? 
What size expansion tank, and if above coil 
will not heat the space we have, how much 
will it heat? Is it practical? Can you 
give sketch showing how to make inlet, 
outlet, etc.? It would certainly be economi¬ 
cal, if not practical, why not? f. 
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