The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Using Phosphate with Manure 
(Continued from page 319) 
had applied nitrogen and potash enough 
in the commercial manure to balance up 
all the phosphoric acid that was avail¬ 
able. and the nitrogen and potash in the 
cow manure were not of any use without 
an extra supply of phosphorus to balance 
them. I know that on my soil I cannot 
get along without phosphoric acid. 
New York. c. o. wabford. 
Cabbage, Cauliflower and Tomato Plant 
Growing 
One of the most profitable adjuncts to 
the grower of vegetables and small fruits 
is the growing of tomato, cabbage, cauli¬ 
flower, lettuce and other plants for sale 
to the neighbors for setting in their home 
gardens. A little greenhouse 10x20 will 
many times, when well handled, produce 
more clear profit than two or more acres 
in corn or other heavy farm crop. The 
beauty of a small greenhouse of this size 
is that the heating system need not be ex¬ 
pensive. A good box wood stove or a 
self-feeding coal stove is all that is needed 
to produce, an abundance of heat in the 
coldest weather. A greenhouse by its 
nature is one of the most exposed struc¬ 
tures on the farm, but a small house of 
this size can easily be covered at night by 
mats of straw. I have found the straw 
mats made GxG ft. the best for this pur¬ 
pose, as one mat can be placed to cover 
two sashes, fastening the upper part of 
the mat to the ridgepole and letting the 
mat roll down or hang so as to cover the 
glass. Rings, fastened to the mats, and 
hooks in the ridgepole, make this work 
very easy, and 'a roof covered with these 
mats is as warm as a solid boarded cover. 
In a greenhouse of the size mentioned 
one can well have ISO ft. of bench space, 
and by fairly intelligent handling, from a 
space of this size thousands of plants can 
be raised and sold. There is no profit in 
running a house of this size during the 
Fall and early Winter, but outside of the 
profit there is a lot of comfort and pleas¬ 
ure in being able to go into a little house 
on a wintry day when I he thermometer is 
away down below zero, with the snow a 
foot deep on the ground, and the wind 
blowing 20 miles an hour, and sit in the 
warm rays of the sun to mend the harness 
or repair some farm article, or even to 
answer some of your correspondence, 
while all about you are growing the rad¬ 
ishes and parsley and green onions and 
lettuce that are going to add to your 
enjoyment at the dinner table. But theie 
is a lot of profit in the plants that arc 
grown along in the late Winter and early 
Spring for the early plantings. Every 
garden needs lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, 
tomatoes, peppers and eggplant, not to 
sa.v anything about the many varieties of 
flower plants that are set out each year. 
In this latitude, New York, the lit¬ 
tle greenhouse is started commercially 
about January 15, when cabbage seed is 
sown in boxes or in rows on the green¬ 
house bench, these rows being about 2 in. 
apart, the cabbage seed being dropped so 
that the plants will come up about eight 
to the inch. This is in flu; coldest part 
of the house, the warmer parts being re¬ 
served for the tomato and peppers, which 
are planted about two weeks later. When 
the cabbage plants are up about an inch 
high, which will be in about three weeks, 
they are transplanted so that they stand 
about % in. apart in rows 2 in. apart. 
Many of these are transplanted into flats 
or shallow boxes about 3 in. deep, a box 
12x20 holding about 200 plants. By the 
time these plants are 3 in. high many 
people will be ready to purchase, and the 
entire box of plants can be sold for from 
$1 to $2, according to location. 
When plants begin to crowd they are 
ready for their final .shifting into out-of- 
door beds, which can be protected by 
cloth or glass and gradually hardened off 
for the final outdoor setting in the field. 
Cauliflower and lettuce are handled the 
same as cabbage. Tomatoes and peppers 
are started about two weeks later than 
cabbage, and require the warmer parts of 
the house, with a temperature about 10 
degrees higher. There is a lot of pleas¬ 
ure in running a small greenhouse, and 
for the work expended nothing on the 
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