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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 1, 1010 
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Garden and Farm Notes 
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I have a piece of ground that is put 
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Raising and Storing Squash 
I have seen several queries and an¬ 
swers in The R. N.-Y. this season re¬ 
garding keeping Winter squashes, but in 
none of the answers have I seen the 
advice which you gave me by letter in 
the Fall of 1317. I asked you the ques¬ 
tion. and yon told me to give the squashes 
a thin but thorough coat of shellac and 
store them in a dry place with a tem¬ 
perature of about 00 degrees. I did so, 
and had perfectly sound squashes to use 
in May, 1918. and they would have kept 
much longer if not needed for use. Last 
season I raised about 30 and shellacked 
12, to be used last. 
I notice Mr. Ormsbee advises early 
planting and a long season to get full 
maturity. My planting has been late and 
I proceed as follows: My early potatoes 
are raised from sets, hardened off in a 
cold frame and planted in the open as 
early as is safe from frost. My squash 
seed (Red Ilubbard, which is the only 
kind I grow), is planted rain or shine 
on the 25th of June on thick sod turned 
upside down. By the 10th of July I 
have strong squash plants (five to the 
sod), and my potatoes are ready to use. 
I dig four hills of potatoes, about 12 
feet apart, then make a rich hill by put¬ 
ting in deep a forkful of rotten manure 
and mixing hone meal with the dirt, and 
plant the squash, sod and all, in this 
hill, ridging up high around the edge so 
i that the hill will hold water. I then 
mulch with lawn trimmings. By the 
time the squashes begin to vine the pota¬ 
toes are ripe enough to dig for storage, 
and I take them out. Liquid manure 
keeps the squashes growing rapidly. Un¬ 
der each squash I put a piece of board, 
usually a wide barrel stave sawed up. 
About the end of September, depending 
on the liability of frost. I pick the 
squashes and put them *u a platform in 
the sun. covering them at night with old 
blankets, and keep them there until nearly 
the end of October, or until they are dry 
and haid. Then they are put down 
cellar on . shelves near the heater, and 
I after drying two or three weeks are 
Celery Blight 
Can you give me remedy for celery 
blight? For a score or more years I have 
raised excellent celery on rich loam soil. 
In 1917 it began to blight last of Sep¬ 
tember. and when time came to put in 
cellar it was in bad condition, and much 
rotted or wasted in storage. In 1018 I 
changed ground and it came about middle 
of October, not as injurious as year pre¬ 
ceding, hut decayed after storing. Could 
it come from potato blight being in same 
patch? I want to make a specialty of 
celery another season if I can prevent 
blight. E. c, 
Knox. N. Y. 
Certain varieties of celery blight badly, 
while others of equally good quality and 
vigor blight very little. Golden Self 
Blanching, for instance, will blight badly, 
and sometimes the plant will rot in the 
crown of the root. Easy Blanching, 
originated a few years ago by a New 
Jersey market gardener. S. Mei.sch, is 
very resistant to leaf blight hud root rot. 
The plant is a vigorous grower, a good 
keeper, excellent in quality and the stalks 
are short, stalky and numerous, with 
a well-filled heart. There is one possible 
objection, and that is the foliage and 
stalks are very green in color. However, 
they can be easily blanched, but it 
takes a few days longer. This variety 
is being grown very extensively around 
Newark. N. J.. and around New York 
City. Some of it is marketed perfectly 
green, and when the trade once finds out 
how fine it is they will have no other. 
The celery blight could not come from 
the potato vines; it is possible that the 
infestation was present upon the seed 
from which the plants were grown. 
Musty or warm conditions in storage will 
ruin any. celery crop. Celery blight can 
be . checked on the growing crop by per¬ 
sistently spraying with Bordeaux mixture 
every 10 days. However, as a rule, the 
Easy Blanching will have so little blight 
that it would not be worth while to 
spray. w. D. 
Yield of Cabbage 
Will Danish Ball Head cabbage yield 
as mu nv tons to the acre as the Ameri¬ 
can-grown Flat Dutch or Drumhead 
varieties? If not. what per cent of seed 
is grown here and in what section of this 
country is most of the cabbage seed 
grown? I hear there is a very short 
crop of cabbage seed. Is that true? Is 
the importation short? c. S. W. 
Shelter Island. N. Y. 
There is very little difference in the 
yield between Danish Ball Head and 
Flat Dutch. Each variety develops very 
compact and tough heads, and on very 
rich soil the latter variety will produce 
the larger specimens. Each one requires 
more time to grow than the Succession 
and All Seasons. The last named varie¬ 
ties will produce a large tonnage per 
acre, but the product will not keep so 
well and the very large heads are not 
compact enough to make them truly de¬ 
sirable for shipping during the Winter. 
Cabbage geed is very scarce this season, 
because the people of Denmark reduced 
their plantings for the production of 
cabbage seed and grew food products for 
the starving inhabitants of Europe. The 
Long Island growers annually produce 
an enormous amount of cabbage seed, but 
last year the adverse weather conditions 
reduced their regular yield by about one- 
half. R. W. D. 
