July, 1912 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
59 
The Naturalizing of a City Man 
(Continued from page 39) 
trically; but it held water when they soaked 
it up and gave promise of furnishing lots 
of fun. 
The marketing of the fall and early win¬ 
ter was quite different from that of the 
summer months. Following up the lead 
that he had got at the local fair, Mantell 
made a specialty of selling direct to fam¬ 
ilies wherever possible, in lots of from one 
to ten or even fifteen bushels. One order 
frequently meant another from some 
friend or neighbor of his customer and he 
found that he was readily able to dispose 
of all the stuff they had to spare. A thing 
that pleased him especially was that he 
was able to get five to ten cents more a 
bushel for his potatoes than most of his 
neighbors, including the Squire, were get¬ 
ting. They were so clean and bright look¬ 
ing that they “sold themselves” wherever 
he sold a peck or half bushel for a sample. 
For this condition Mantell thanked the 
solution in which he had soaked his seed 
—two rows that had been put in after the 
main field, with untreated seed, appeared 
quite rough and scabby. 
With a howling snowstorm, coming 
almost as suddenly as a thunder-shower 
out of a summer sky, real winter set in a 
few days after Thanksgiving. Mantell 
was sorry, for it caught them with no end 
of jobs unfinished and there was so much 
to do before the ground froze solid. 
There was the fall plowing to finish and 
fences to put in practically all over the 
place and an extension to the greenhouse 
to build. The foundation for a corn crib 
had to be put in, so they could work on 
it during cold weather. In the attempt to 
get so many other things done, part of 
their corn had been left outdoors still. A 
good deal of this was blown down and as 
a rain followed the first snowstorm, it 
was wet and frozen when they got it in 
and not a little of it molded in the barn. 
This taught Mantell a lesson which some 
of his neighbors evidently had not yet 
learned, for he saw a number of fields in 
the same condition as his own. 
The addition to the greenhouse kept 
them busy until their fingers were nearly 
frozen off. They added twelve feet to 
the greenhouse, which was as far as the 
side of the barn furnished them with a 
north wall, and they more than doubled 
the coldframe space so that the purchase 
of a few more coldframe sash made their 
total amount of “glass” quite twice what 
it had been in the spring. The part of the 
north bench nearest the boiler was re¬ 
served for the tenderer plants and a “cut¬ 
ting bed” which Raffles constructed was 
put into lettuce and radishes. The first 
crop of lettuce was put in the old cold- 
frame and they had the satisfaction of 
cutting out a fine crop for Thanksgiving, 
which met with a ready sale at sixty cents 
a dozen. FTalf of the first crop inside they 
lost by “rot”; they had put in half of a 
heading sort and half a curled sort. The 
latter came through finely, but they were 
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