CAc R U R AL NiEW-YO R K E K 
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The Vegetable Garden 
Raising Radishes for Market 
A Southern Winter Crop 
Part II. 
The frequetic.v with which radishes 
should be pulled depends upon the weath¬ 
er. In warn), rainy weather, I have 
often pulled ever the land every other 
day. When it is cool and dry, twice a 
week is often tnough. With the excep¬ 
tion of one negro man to handle the bar- 
els, etc., I use colored women, boys and 
girls entirely, as they are cheaper and far 
more satisfactory for this kind of work. 
I always pay by the day. Some truckers 
pay by the hundred bunches for tying, 
but I .soon found that the work was 
imorly done when paid in that way. It 
takes from' seven to 11 hands daily to 
handle an acre of radishes. As a rule. I 
ship every day except Friday and Sun¬ 
day. Can’t ship on Friday because the 
the same 
fertilizer I 
put under 
the rad- 
ishes. 
Xo. of 
X^o. of 
Date 
barrels 
bunches 
Price 
April 10. . 
... . 1 
.370 
,$7.02 
April 12.. 
. ... 1 
5.35 
8.81 
April 1.5.. 
2 
1.029 
10.97 
April 37.. 
i 
455* 
11..50 
April 18.. 
1 
409’^ 
8.44 
April 18. . 
.... .3 
1.310 
24.12 
April 19.. 
1 
407* 
8.44 
April 20.. 
.... 2 
875 
14.18 
April 22. . 
.... 6 
2,400* 
38.81 
This repre.sents the first two weeks of 
a season which I give merely to show 
how the prices fluctuate, the dilTerence 
between the prices of red and white and 
the number of bunches handled per day. 
The * after the number means white; 
the re.st are red. It seems useless to take 
the spac-e to give an itemized list of the 
whole season, .so I will merely say that 
the total number of white marketed from 
A String of Hotbeds 
stniV wniild lie in the express office in 
Phil!ideli)hia over Sunday. ;ind this would 
ruin it, but I (start the hands at work at 
12 o’clock Frilay and hold the radishes 
ov<‘r until next day. I h‘t them lie in the 
cradles in the packing hou.se Friday night 
and sprinkle them with the garden ho.se 
ju.st before going to bed and early again 
next morning This keeps them cool and 
fresh. Some may think that I take too 
much trouble preiniring my’radishes, but 
it has rejmid me a thou.sand times over. 
I always get the top prices, often when 
other truckers can’t sell their radishes I 
am .selling mine, and I have never yet lo.st 
money on a radish crop. 
Two more snggesticnis: Never put in 
a crooked or k.iotty looking radish, and 
alway.s plow the land deep.and make it 
.soft, or the radishes will^ be knotty and 
crooked. Keep your standard up at any 
cost, if ycu ever hop(! to make a “rej),” 
and, after you have made it, raise it even 
higher if possible. It would be difficult 
to give the exact cost of raising and mai’- 
keting an acre of radishes because the 
price of seed, fertilizer and labor fluctuate 
•so constantly, but each man can estimate 
it for himself by the figures that I have 
gi\'en above. The following table shows 
the exact salets from an acre of radi.shes 
about two-thirds white and one-third red. 
From the data it will be .seen that we be¬ 
gan shij)ping a little late, its the Spring 
was Cold. I replant('d several times. 
From the figure,s showing ju ice jjer barrel 
the exi)re.ss and commi.ssion have been 
dedueved i*. all cases, as commission mer¬ 
chant 'hjes this before sending check. 
A’/though this table is representative, 
it does not show to what extremes the 
prices of radishes can go. I have had my 
fir.st shipment of the sea.son dumi)ed into 
the river, and I have received as high as 
^0.2,') per barrel for my last shii)ment of 
the same season, sent ilay 2,>. The ship¬ 
ping sea.son generally lasts about six 
weeks, although I have known it to con¬ 
tinue as long as eight weeks, or to be 
over in three. It is hard work to raise 
radishes for market, but to my mind there 
is good money in it for him who wishes to 
try. After the radishes are marketed I 
always plow my land and plant it in cow 
pe as T get a fine crop of them, from 
the acre was l.>,504 bunches and S,242 
red, and the money received from the acre 
after the express and commission w<‘re 
deducted was .'S2.42.54. c. remington. 
North Carolina. 
Starting Seeds in Hotbed 
Having made a small hotbed la.st Fall, 
but having no experience. I would like 
to know the jiroper time to sow sec'ds of 
tomatoes, cabbage, pejqier, etc., in Cen¬ 
tral Connecticut. How large should 
l)lants be to trausjflant, and jn-oper' dis-, 
tance? Would there be any advantage in* 
H-an.splanting into “flats.” plabing these' 
in cold frames instead of setting plants 
in the ground in the frames? Would 
they be enough better in individual jwts 
to pay? Is there any way to hasten the 
transidanting? It always seems as though 
it was a big task where any quantity, of 
jdants are grown? Could cabbage be. 
started in the Fall, and how much j)rotec-, 
tion would they need? Would it be nec¬ 
essary to keej) glass on all Winter, or 
would loose boards do in their stead? 
Connecticut. c. J. 
Tomato seed should be sown about 10 
weeks befoia* jdanting-out time. For in¬ 
stance, if danger of killing frost is pa.st 
by middle of llav, then the seed should 
be .sown along about the l.st of M.-irch, 
earlier or later, according to locality. Cab-' 
bage, early and st'coiid early, should be 
sown first to fifteenth of Februar.v, ac¬ 
cording to locality. Pejrja'rs and egg- 
jdant, Ajn-il first to fiftemith, according 
1o locality. Ceh'ry, for early us’e, should 
be sown about I’ebruary first, and for 
inter use, sr'cd should be sown outside 
soon as ground becomes warm. F<ir early 
or Summer u.se, only the self-blanching 
sorts should be grown. I.ettiice may be 
sown in hotbed as early as February fif¬ 
teenth to March first, and for later crojrs 
se«>d should be sown a fortnight (»r so 
later. I>j' the'time the jjlants are ready 
to set out the ground will be warm 
enough to admit of sowing seed outside 
in iow(3 which may be of the loose sorts 
for cutting or of head varieties, which are 
to be thinned to stand six to eight inches 
ai)art in the row as soon as they have 
made the second ])air of true leaves. 
Tomatoes, early cabbage. i)ej>i>ers, egg- 
jdant, early lettuce and early celery, etc., 
are usually transplanted to flats when 
they have made their second or third set 
, , (Continued on page 2,41.) 
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