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A  Gardener  Makes  Good 
I  would  like  to  tell  you  what  The  R. 
N.-Y.  helped  me  to  do.  Flight  years  ago  I 
came  to  this  country  from  Ireland.  I  got 
a  job  as  a  gardener  and  handy  man  on  a 
gentleman’s  place — a  farm  of  100  acres 
of  good  land.  I  did  not  know  anything 
about  how  some  of  the  garden  crops  were 
raised.  I  got  your  paper  and  by  careful 
perusal  !  always  found  the  required  infor¬ 
mation,  and  I  raised  a  wonderful  garden 
the  first  season.  My  wages  amounted  to 
$42.50  the  first  month,  and  my  employer 
found  I  worked  hard,  and  after  six  years 
I  was  drawing  $140  a  month.  I  have 
owned  that  farm  for  the  past  two  years. 
Massachusetts.  r.  duffy. 
This  reads  like  the  romantic  st.ories 
formerly  told  of  immigrants  who  came  to 
this  country  years  ago,  took  up  cheap 
land  and  made  a  farm  and  a  home.  They 
evidently  do  it  differently  now  in  the  days 
of  high-priced  labor.  America  is  still, 
apparently,  the  land  of  opportunity  for 
such  men  as  Mr.  Duffy.  Many  a  hired 
man  has  refused  to  stay  hired,  but  has 
worked  up  into  ownership. 
Rabbits;  Old  Market  Days 
Apropos  of  the  article  on  page  1510, 
December  30,  1022,  “Using  Rabbits  for 
Fertilizer,”  I  agree  with  you  as  to  using 
same  for  food.  I  have  heard  for  so  many 
years  of  the  damage  rabbits  do  to  the 
trees  and  crops  throughout  the  entire 
West,  also  heard  that  the  big  packing 
firms  have  been  canning  rabbits,  but  have 
never  been  able  to  ascertain  where  one 
can  buy  the  canned  product.  In  New 
York  City  we  can  buy  in  Washington 
Market  and  at  many  large  butcher  shops, 
rabbits  which  are  fresh  and  dressed,  at 
from  40  to  50  cents  a  pair.  Before  mov¬ 
ing  from  the  city  to  this  place  I  was  con¬ 
gratulating  myself  upon  having  a  plenti- 
tude  of  freshly  killed  rabbits  at  same 
price.  Well  never  a  rabbit  have  I  been- 
able  to  buy.  Those  who  have  them,  breed 
for  laboratory  xperimental  purposes,  and 
if  they  condescend  to  sell,  charge  from  30 
to  40  cents  a  pound,  not  dressed.  Read¬ 
ing  of  the  city  markets  recalls  to  my 
memory  the  old  days  when  farmers  drove 
from  all  around  the  city  (sometimes  40 
miles)  and  congregated  all  along  Green¬ 
wich  and  'Washington  Streets.  As  I  was 
born  in  the  real  old  Greenwich  Village, 
and  Ave  had  a  real  cellar  to  our  house,  we 
bought  our  fruits  and  vegetables  from 
those  farmers ;  could  buy  in  dozen  hunch 
lots,  at  wholesale  prices.  Those  were  the 
days  !  And  we  city  people  did  not  go  to 
corner  groceries  and  buy  a  quart  of  this 
or  that.  Our  cellar  was  perhaps  better1 
filled  than  many  now  living  in  the  coun¬ 
try.  And  that  was  only  40  years  ago. 
But  of  course  one  had  to  go  and  get 
them.  Today  housewives  telephone  for  a 
dozen  eggs  and  their  marketing  (even  out 
here)  so  that  one  cannot  blame  the  deal¬ 
ers  who  pay  for  delivery  wagons  and 
help.  f.  L.  a. 
Crossing  Corn  and  Onions 
_  Where  red  and  yellow  onions  are  grown 
side  by  side,  is  there  danger  of  the  seed 
mixing,  and  if  sweet  eorn  “mixes”  some 
with  other  corn,  does  it  affect  the  kernels 
that  do  not  show  it,  to  use  for  seed? 
Vermont.  g.  d. 
When  we  plant  two  varieties  of  corn, 
such  as  yellow  and  white,  side  by  side, 
we  often  find  ears  where  both  colors  ap¬ 
pear,  showing  that  the  varieties  have 
crossed.  Now  each  grain  of  corn  has  a 
silk  down  which  the  pollen  grain  grows, 
thus  uniting  and  forming  the  seed.  Where- 
ever  the  pollen  grains  from  the  yellow 
corn  united  with  the  white  a  yellow 
grain  will  appear.  All  white  kernels  will 
produce  white  corn,  for  these  kernels 
were  fertilized  by  pollen  from  the  white 
corn,  and  are  pure.  The  yellow  kernels, 
being  a  cross,  will  produce  both  yellow 
and  white  kernels. 
When  red  and  yellow  onion  bulbs  are 
planted  side  by  side  and  the  plants  flower 
and  seed  at  the  same  time,  many  of  the 
seeds  produced  will  be  hybrids  and  may 
be  expected  to  produce  either  yellow  or 
red  onions.  As  many  of  the  seeds  will 
be  pure,  a  definite  ratio  cannot  be  given. 
T.  II.  T. 
Treatment  for  Lumbago 
.1.  D.  G.,  in  the  issue  of  December  30, 
asks  is  there  any  cure  or  help  for  lum¬ 
bago.  I  reply,  there  is  a  sure  pre¬ 
ventive.  For  many  years  I  was  a  sufferer 
from  lumbago.  An  osteopath  told  me 
to  wear  a  flannel  bandage  and  I  would 
never  have  it  while*  doing  so,  nor  have  I. 
Several  layers  of  real  flannel,  pinned  on 
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Bandages  for  men  can  be  bought  at  al¬ 
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