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The Home Acre. 
A HANDY GREENHOUSE. 
Some good greenhouse plans have been 
given in these pages and I will therefore 
omit any detailed description of con¬ 
struction. The diagram herewith is a 
surface view at top of bench level. 
This house is 12x20. side walls of 
wood four feet high. The top lumber, 
such as sash bars, purlin strips and 
ridge, also two ventilators, were pur¬ 
chased from a firm making a specialty of 
greenhouses. Lumber for the sides was 
purchased locally, and the bench lumber 
was pick-up stuff on the place. The en¬ 
tire cost of material including 14-inch 
heating stove was under $100. I did 
much drawing and planning for the 
bench arrangement and shelves to ob¬ 
tain a maximum amount of usable space 
with right light and temperature. The 
accompanying diagram shows the final 
arrangement by which a total of 221 
square feet of space can be utilized and 
still leave abundant working space and 
good distance around the stove. The 
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Surface View of Greenhouse. 
bench space proper gives 127 square 
feet. The space marked X is left open and 
filled level with the bench with potting 
soil. This is the best location for it, as 
the space is always in the shade—south 
side. However, boards can be laid over 
this space and utilized for germinating 
seed boxes or plants that can stand 
shade, like ferns. Around the sides and 
eight inches below the glass can be run 
a one-foot-wide shelf, with the exception 
of the walk on south side. Also through 
the center along the purlin supports can 
be run other one-foot shelves. This gives 
a total, as above, of 221 square feet. 
Still more can be obtained by adding a 
second shelf on the sides, to be used only 
for storage of boxes of germinating seeds. 
The space under the north bench may 
be used for cool plants like geraniums, 
cabbage, parsley, etc., as the sun strikes 
the floor under this bench dear to the 
wall. Under the other benches rhubarb 
may be forced from the first of the year 
till the outdoor crop is ready. 
The writer has this greenhouse elec¬ 
tric lighted and an extension phone from 
the house is installed. The stove is of 
the hot blast type, 14 inches in diameter. 
I now consider this too small, as there 
is sufficient radiating surface. With the 
present stove it is necessary to attend to 
it once during nights where the outside 
temperature is 25 or below. White ash 
nut soft coal is used in combination with 
nut hard coal, not mixed, but placed in 
the stove in alternate layers. 
At the point marked V is kept an ac¬ 
curate thermometer about eight inches 
above the bed. A night temperature of 
50 to 55 is maintained as closely as pos¬ 
sible, with five degrees higher on cloudy 
days and 15 on clear days. This proves 
suitable for most bedding plants. Plants 
requiring higher temperature can be 
placed on the center shelves or closer to 
the stove. Peppers and tomato plants 
would be among these. Such a house as 
this, with a stove for heat, cannot help 
but be dusty. A good hand spray pump 
is used and plants sprayed twice or more 
weekly on clear mornings and the floor 
sprayed daily. Thick-leaved plants are 
sometimes washed by hand. 
The ventilators are one at each end 
and on opposite sides. One or both are 
open on all clear days. The opening de¬ 
vice is a two-foot stick with spikes driven 
in at intervals. This allows the ventila¬ 
tor to be held open at any desired dis¬ 
tance by resting the spike on the roof 
while the end of the stick supports the 
ventilator. The fuel costs this Winter 
is averaging very close to one cent an 
hour, but it is worth it. P. L. w. 
Michigan. 
Fodder Crops for One Acre. 
Can you suggest a crop that will yield 
enough hay to last two cows and one 
horse for one year on one acre of ground 
in the same year? w. G. B. 
Long Island. 
It is doubtful whether you can do this 
on light Long Island soil. We should 
make a trial of the following: Plow your 
ground early and give it thorough pre¬ 
paration. Use either a heavy dressing 
of stable manure, or a large quantity of 
chemical fertilizer. On half the acre 
sow as early as the weather will permit, 
fodder corn in drills 2 y 2 feet apart. Sow 
this corn thickly, at least one bushel of 
seed to the half acre. Use a large- 
stalked corn, and give thorough culture. 
At the last cultivation in August sow 
on this half acre one pound of Cow-horn 
turnip seed, and one-half bushel each of 
rye and barley. Put this seed right in 
the corn, and work in with your cultiva¬ 
tor. On the other half acre sow as early 
as possible Canada peas and oats, as we 
have so frequently advised. When this 
crop is ripe, probably in early July, cut 
it for hay, break up the soil at once, and 
seed to Japanese millet. Cut this for hay 
in early September, break up the ground 
again, and seed to one bushel each of 
barley and rye. On a narrow strip at 
one side of the field run a few rows of 
mangels or cattle beets, the rows IS inch¬ 
es apart. You can, if you like, sow the 
seed on a small separate patch, and trans¬ 
plant the mangel plants after the oats 
and peas come off, or cut a strip of this 
crop while green for the purpose. You 
can cut the barley for a light crop in 
early November. The Cow-horn turnips 
if properly fed will provide much feed 
for the cows. 
Garden Peas. 
What is an average crop per acre of 
garden peas? What size crate is used, 
and what price is the pickers supposed 
to get? About what do they bring on the 
market? I intend to grow the Prosperity 
pea. j. A. G. 
I’angburn, Ark. 
The growing of peas for market is de¬ 
pendent upon so many conditions, mostly 
of purely a local nature, it is impossible 
to forecast anywhere near accurately the 
size of the crop or the price per bushel 
they will bring in the market at any 
given place or time. Under normal 
weather conditions, with proper fertiliz¬ 
ing and cultivation, the yield may run 
anywhere from 100 bushels and up per 
acre. The price here in New Jersey has 
ranged from $2 per 28-quart basket for 
this first picking or two, down to as low 
as $1, and in some instances even less, 
when there was a plentiful supply in the 
market. When they are sold by the 
bushel, in the city market, they may be 
shipped in the ordinary bushel basket or 
crate. The 16-quart peach basket will 
answer very well, for delivery to the lo¬ 
cal market. The prices usually paid for 
picking is about 25 cents per bushel. The 
Prosperity pea is without doubt one of 
the finest early peas grown, and always 
commands a good price in the market. If 
you intend growing peas for market in 
considerable quantity, I would advise you 
also to plant the late Gradus or Pros¬ 
perity and Telephone. The late Gradus 
comes in between the last of the early 
Gradus and the Telephone, thus lengthen¬ 
ing the season to a considerable extent, 
and without any break in the pickings. 
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