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Vegetables and Fruits 
Greenhouse and Frostproof Cabbage; 
Seveml times in the past .year I have 
?iven the so-called frost-proof cabbage 
plants a thorough trial. I obtained 
them from South Carolina, Norfolk, and 
the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Tho.se 
from the last two places proved the most 
satisfactor.v, but none so satisfactory as 
properly grown greenhou.se plants. The 
frostproof proved more or less uncer¬ 
tain, and unsatisfactory, as there are sev¬ 
eral -causes to make them uncertain. 
Early cabbage must be set at the earliest 
possible time to prove successful. .We 
may plan to set at a certain date, and 
order the plants accordingly, and weather 
conditions may he such that it is im¬ 
possible to plant for several days, or the 
plants may he delayed in transit and ar¬ 
rive in had condition. This often oc- 
cur.s, so after a thorough trial I have dis¬ 
carded them, and depend on greenhouse 
plants entirel.v, and they have never 
failed to give jici-fect satisfaction for sev¬ 
eral year.s. I plant the seed eai’ly in 
.Tnnnary in a cuol place in the house, as 
near the glass as possible. We begin to 
transplant them about .Tanuary 15 to 
20th, in fiats containing .about 2Vi inches 
of good garden soil, putting plants about 
two inches apart. We jilace the Hats in 
a coo], well-vontilated house, as near the 
glass as possible, and keep the house 
from -10 to ,50 degrees at night, and give 
plenty of ventilation in day when weather 
I»ermits. 
We aim to get the jilants a fair size 
from the 15th to 20tli of Marcli. If 
weather conditions at that time permits 
we transfer the flats from the house to 
cold frames outside and cover with 
sash. If cold .comes suddenly after we 
get them out we have to ])r<.)teet them; 
if they get a few days of mild weather 
with plenty of air in the day they get 
hard enough to stand several degrees of 
freezing and can he i>l:nited whenever 
weather and soil is in pro))er condition. 
A few mild days after setting they will 
stand pretty bard freezing, and will he 
ready to cut several days hi'foi’c frost¬ 
proof under the best conditions. I grow 
about 50,(X)0 annually, and tliey have 
given entire satisfaction. Tliey are on 
liand when we are ready to i»lant, and a 
little soil adheres to the roots, which 
('iiahles them to take root at oik’c. The 
same method applies to lettuce; we 
grow it the same as eahhage. I have 
grown lettuce in cold frames (wintered 
over) -whieh was in good condition in 
Spring, and the greenhouse plants gave 
so much better satisfaction tliat I de¬ 
pend on gromhonse cabbage and lettuce 
grown under the above conditions, and 
find them much more dependable than 
any jilant I can get. cii.VRJ.ES BLACK. 
New .Tersey. 
Lime as a Phosphate Substitute 
If plowed ground had b(‘en heavily toii- 
di’cssed with stable manure during the 
Winter, could good coi’ii be raised if 
ground lime rock was used in the planter 
instead of phosphate? Is there any way 
one could use lime for potatoes? If one 
had good hen manure, how -would be the 
best way to use it for potatoe.s? Would 
it he advisable to mix plaster with it. or 
could one use lime ? K. L. c. 
New Berlin, N. Y, 
Ground limestone cannot take the place 
of phosphate. The limestone contains 
lime, and no other element of jilant food. 
The phosphate contains phosphorus—al¬ 
ways needed in grain in-odnction, A good 
dressing of manure will produce a crop of 
corn, but ou most soils the addition of 
phosphate will give a better coi-n croiu 
both in quantity and also in quality. 
Limestone di’illed in when the corn is 
planted will help, hut it will not take the 
place of the phosphate, since it does not 
add phosphorus. Many of our host 
farmers have found that the u.se of acid 
phosphate Avith the manure is about the 
best fertilizer investment they can make. 
\^’^lat is the reason for using lime on 
potatoes? Lime is likely to increase the 
amount of scab. Limestone would be less 
likely to do this than burnt lime, but Ave 
see no reason for using limestone on this 
crop; Ave prefer to use the lime ou the 
clover or grass crop, ahead of the pota¬ 
toe.s. The best Avay to handle hen manure 
is to dry it out thoroughly by using land 
plastei', sifted coal ashes or road dust 
under the perches. In the Spring crush 
this dry and if possible mix one part of 
acid phosphate with three parts of the 
crushed manure. This will give good re¬ 
sults ou potatoes, but do not mix lime 
Avith the ben manure. 
Frozen Roots 
We have so many questions about 
frozen mangels and turnips that it seems 
necessary to talk about them again. Evi¬ 
dently a good many feeders were caught 
by the cold Aveather and had the contents 
of the root cellar badly frozen. Many 
pm’sons fear that frozen roots Avill poison 
their stock, and there are reports of 
trouble from feeding them. Most of this 
trouble comes Avhen the roots are fi’ozeii 
and thaAved seA'oral times. That breaks 
up the cells, find trouble results. We 
Avould not adA'ise feeding .such roots, ex¬ 
cept Avith the greatest care. When. Ikv,’.- 
evi'r, the roots are kept frozen until Avaiit- 
<“d for feeding and then tlnnA'cd out .slow¬ 
ly, they may usually be fed Avith safety. 
The best Avay is to keep the roots solidly 
frozen and Avhen they are needed for use, 
throw them into cold Avater and let them 
thaw out slowly. Then, if they are fed 
at once, they Avill not injure the stock, 
hut 'be practically as good as before they 
wei’C fi’ozen. Care is. needed in giving 
all .such food to live stock, and Avit’i 
lioulti’.v in iiarticular we should feed tin ■ 
frozen beets carefully, a fcAA' at a tir-' 
first, and Avateli their elTect. It is al¬ 
ways safer to handle any doubtful food in 
tliis Av.’iy. In feeding large (piantities of 
roots to cattle, it may not be practical to 
l)ut them in cold Avater, hut when fed on a 
smaller scale, especially to poultry, this 
plan Avill Avork Avell. 
Split Trees and Sunscald 
We have had some trees crack Avit'i 
what I suppose Avas frost, 'but havo 
not seen any marked damage from such 
a split. The troe.s appear normal and 
the sjjlit seems not to get an.v Avorse as 
years jiass. It prob.ahly shortens tlu' 
life of the trees. I think it Avill hi* 
found iu orchards where extra clean <’ul- 
tiv:ition is practiced and the grass kei>t 
away from the tree roots. Rank growers, 
sueh as GraA’enstein, are particularly 
auseeptible. Roth this trouble and its 
relative “sunscald” I aA’oid (as I think) 
by leaving a strip of grass from tAV)> 
feet to si.x feet Avide, Avith the tree in 
the centre. I .'ini naturally lazy (Mr. 
Powell may note) so Avhen years ago I 
began to put a siiadeful of dirt at the 
base of my apifie trees it stayed there. 
Every year I jiiit another spade of dirt 
on top of the last, till most of my trees 
at seven yea i s old have .a small mound 
of say a hiisliel of dirt around tlieir 
roots. Then I stop. This keeps the 
mice aAvay—iu this country. I also keep 
an assortment of cats. I don’t cut tlie 
grass in the strip, and this stays up and 
shelters the trunks a little. The grass 
also matures, and though it uses moisture 
in doing so, it keeps the breeze from the 
ground, makes a much deeper layer of 
more resilient mulch, and takes much 
longer to decay, so balancing on the 
right side. I run the greater danger 
from fire. The grass is couch, and seems 
as good as any. Unless grass is cut 
often, the hard stubble pricks the ap¬ 
ples and the fingers. I.astly, I head my 
trees about 20 inches from the ground 
and use nitrate of soda as the carrier for 
nitrogen, Avliich slow-s doAvn in action, 
by the Fall, helping the trees to ripen 
Avell. The trees Avhich cracked were 
hejided about four feet high. 
In case of .scald I would often do noth¬ 
ing. If labor were plentiful and re¬ 
liable and the ti-ees Avere large and 
profitable, either bridge-graft, or plant five 
or six good, hardy nursery trees around 
the roots, and tuck their tops under 
the 'bark of the big trunk, tacking Avith 
a shingle nail and waxing as in ordinary 
grafting. I have done this successfully, 
but it eats up time. JOHN B'DCHANAN. 
Nova Scotia^ 
