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The man who buys the best 
is never sorry 
When you buy a cream separator, a plow, a 
reaper, a binder or any other piece of farm ma¬ 
chinery, you insist, if you are wise, on one particu¬ 
lar make because you know that that make, what¬ 
ever it may be, is the very best in its line. 
Inferior farm equipment does not pay and 
neither do “cheap” tires. In tires as in everything 
else, it pays to buy the best. 
For over a quarter of a century Kelly-Spring- 
field tires have had an enviable reputation for high 
quality. Until quite recently they sold at consid¬ 
erably higher prices than other tires, but now 
greatly increased production has brought the 
prices down. Now— 
It costs no more to buy a Kelly 
American Agriculturist, March 22, 1924 
A Cold Frame for Cabbage 
Plants and How To Build It 
I would like your advice relative to building a cold 
frame or hot-bed, large enough to raise about 10,000 
cabbage, tomato and celery p ants. What varieties do 
you advise of cabbage and tomatoes? 1 would like your 
opinion telative to shipping planis by mail.—E. A. M„ 
Pennsylvania. 
I N ORDER to raise 10,000 plants of cabbage, 
tomatoes and celery combined, I figure that 
you would need about 30 standard size 3 by 6 
foot sash for cold frames, in other words, you 
would require about 540 square feet covered 
with cold frames. This is figuring 3500 tomato 
plants spaced 4 by 4 inches, 3500 cabbage 
plants spaced 2 by 2 inches and 3500 celery 
plants spaced 13-12 inches in the cold frame. 
This is as wide spacing as one would ordinarily 
set these plants before they go to the fields. 
In order to start these seedlings in the hot 
beds, I should think that two or three sash 
] would be sufficient, although I should recom¬ 
mend that you have four hot bed sash to be on 
the safe side. 
Ordinarily it is much better to ship young 
vegetable plants by express, especially such- 
large plants as tomatoes and cabbage if large 
numbers are to be handled in any one ship¬ 
ment. For small numbers of cabbage plants 
and for small plants like celery, for short ship¬ 
ments it might be desirable to send them by 
parcel post by wrapping a dozen cabbage and 
Jlwo or three dozen celery plants in separate 
sheets of newspaper with the roots surrounded 
by moist sphagnum moss. If shipped in large 
numbers by express the best container is an 
orange crate with strips nailed over the top, 
the roots imbedded in moist sphagnum moss. 
Desirable Varieties 
Copenhagen market is the most popular 
early variety of cabbage and is grown most 
extensively by market gardeners. Earliana 
Bonny Best, John Baer and Chalk’s Early 
Jewel are the principal varieties of red fruited 
tomatoes. Globe is the principal pink fruited 
variety. The markets of New' York State 
prefer red fruit. 
Regarding hot bed and cold frame construc¬ 
tion I would advise that these structures 
should be located in the warmest, most pro¬ 
tected place near to the dwelling house and a 
water supply. It would be desirable to have 
a riser and water faucet about every 50 feet in 
the frame yard. 
Building a Hot Bed 
A permanent hot bed with a pit 2 to 3 feet 
deep is preferable to a temporary one where 
the manure is mounded up and the frame put 
on top. This temporary style takes much more 
manure and the temperature conditions are 
not as uniform because it is more exposed than 
the permanent style. 
The pit should be lined with boards or 
concrete. If concrete is used it should be 8 
inches thick at the bottom of the pit and 
should gradually narrow down to 4 inches at 
the top. Iron rods should bp put in at the 
corners every 10 or 12 inches to reinforce it. 
Concrete is much more desirable, but con¬ 
siderably more expensive than wood. Wood is 
generally used, but this should be a durable 
kind such as chestnut. Two inch planks are 
preferable, one-inch boards, and these should 
be nailed on the outside of the frame and driven 
at least a foot below the bottom of the pit. 
Cross pieces should be placed on every three 
feet across the top of the frame extending from 
the front to the back. These should be of 2 by 
3 inch material dovetailed into the top of the 
frame at either side. Thus they can be easily 
removed when putting in manure or soil. 
About one-quarter to a half-inch over 3 feet 
should be allowed from center of cross piece 
in order to prevent binding of sash. These 
crosspieces are very valuable as a means of 
making the frame more rigid by holding the 
sides apart, and they also serve as slides for 
the sash in ventilating and watering. They 
also keep the cold air and rain water from 
getting in between the sash. 
The cold frame should be made the same as 
a hot bed without the pit and without 2 by 4 
inch stakes every three feet on the sides. The 
stakes are placed merely at the four corners 
and at ends of side boards. The side and end 
boards should be bolted to these stakes so that 
the frame can be easily taken apart and stored 
when not in use. 
The Sash Problem 
The sash or cover for the hot-bed and cold- 
frame anay be purchased from greenhouse 
construction companies either completely 
glazed and painted ready to use, or unpainted 
and unglazed. Ordinarily it is much more 
economical to purchase them the latter wav 
and to do the painting and glazing yourself. 
Only best grade of greenhouse putty should be 
used and the sash should be given a priming 
coat of paint before imbedding the glass in the 
putty. This is important in order to get the 
(l Continued on page 310 ) 
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