April, 1912 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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two hours he gave it up as a bad job. 
There were not many stones, but the scrub 
oak stumps and roots were a hard propo¬ 
sition, and back went Jeremiah with still 
stranger tales of IMantell’s craziness. So 
they fell back on the Squire, and he sent 
.a man over with a yoke of “cattle,” and a 
plow that seemed to have belonged to an 
ora previous to that of the original “man 
with the hoe.” They were slow — “slow as 
molasses in fly-time,” as their driver ex¬ 
plained—but they did the work. Mantell 
and Raffles were kept busy with Prince 
and the Squire's “stone-boat” on which 
the ancient plow had been conveyed over 
to the battlefield, carrying otf stones, 
stumps and roots. After the best they 
-could do with it, it still remained pretty 
rough-looking and the rows they furrowed 
-out took rather sinuous courses. But there 
was plenty of dirt, and it was very good 
dirt, too. 
Mantell had saved for this field the bar¬ 
rel of extra choice potatoes. They were 
cut carefully, in generous-sized pieces, 
and covered by hand, too, as they could 
not cover with the horse and cultivator 
an these crooked rows. Another reason 
was that these potatoes had been spread 
out in shallow boxes under the green¬ 
house bench for several weeks, and now 
had stubby green little sprouts just devel¬ 
oping, which they wanted to be careful 
not to break ofif. 
It was almost three weeks after the 
Squire’s potatoes were planted—in fact 
ithey were already breaking through the 
ground—before this little patch went in. 
It happened to rain soon after it was 
planted, and they were able to get over 
it with the “bush” only once bfore the 
little green sprouts were pushing up 
through the soil, and in two weeks they 
had fully caught up with Mantell’s earlier 
planting, and seemed to be making a 
brave effort to catch up with the Squire’s. 
This experiment received Mantell’s spe¬ 
cial care, and nothing that he could find 
-out about the way of cultivation was ne¬ 
glected for them. The result was that 
they kept up a rapid growth from the 
start, and his scrub oak field soon began 
•to be famous. 
VIII 
The month of May was of course a 
very busy one in Raffles’ Department. 
Xot only were they busy planting and tak¬ 
ing care of the crops in the ground, but 
other momentous things happened. The 
first bunches of radishes and the first 
heads of lettuce were taken to market, 
(ireat was the excitement at the offices of 
the company — as great as if they had been 
children. 
The very first heads were from three of 
the coldframes, which Mantell had man¬ 
aged to empty in time to set out a few 
dozen of the largest lettuce plants, with 
radishes between. There were only three 
frames available for such use, the first 
being full of spring plants. From these, 
however, they marketed eight dozen lettuce 
at sixty cents a dozen; two dozen bunches 
•of beets at ninety cents and nine dozen 
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