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cand saath ‘Tub or jar must be 
ae badly leaky for no eranhee, 
1 a few weeks: they have settled 
ome inches. Put in two water buck- 
s of fresh barnyard manure and 
t that settle for at least two weeks. 
hen fill up with contents of tubs 
imilarly filled the previous year.— 
prinkle a trowel of acid phosphate 
nd some lime on top and mix with 
his surface soil. Lay off rows about 
vo inches apart and plant, alternat- 
ig vegetables and flower seed. — 
arly vegetables will give needed 
hade to tiny flower plants and be 
ut of the way before the flowers 
eed the room. By the next year, the 
ther tubs. 
-Tast year I had fine success with 
_ beets in one tub and no good in an- 
ther. Found I had mixed plenty of 
‘ood cashes in the first, providing 
eeded lime. Am adding straight 
me this year to tubs carrying Beets. 
Radishes did no good in any tub last 
year. I think lack of water was the 
ti rouble. Am trying again this year. 
Mm aie yield from this very rich dirt 
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ontents will be rotted enough to fill 
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is surprising. One row of turnips 
men (my family) four meals - of 
creamed Turnips, two turnips, two 
cookings, and fresh salad from the 
leaves for several more. I include one 
row of Lettuce in every tub, and 
thus raise planty while it lasts, sev- 
eral weeks. 
It is easier to protect the tubs 
than open ground, through blizzards, 
hence much earlier planting is in 
order. We have Lettuce, Radishes 
and Turnips, planted this year, al- 
ready up and thriving. I set some 
plants like Hemerocalis in leaky slop 
jars, very rich dirt, handled same as 
tub dirt. Plants become dormant 
with hard freezing weather. I set 
jar in a somewhat sheltered spot out. 
of doors, where it can get winter 
rain, ' work the soil surface tine, 
sprinkly thinly with Big Boston Let- 
tuce seed, cover lightly with more 
rich dirt and let Nature take its 
course. Growth is much slower than 
from spring planting, but we have 
begun on ours, two servings each, of 
salad, from seed planted early in 
winter. Intend to try Celeriac this 
year. No idea how it will do. — A 
neighbor had good success. with 
Chinese Cabbage in small box. 
Am culling my hens severely, 
intending to keep less than a dozen. 
-An expert may be able to make a pro- 
fit under present conditions, but the 
risk is greater than I care to under- 
take. Ceiling prices and directives 
from Washinngton are too heavy a 
handicap. 
good sense in risking a handred dol- 
lars to make a hundred dollars pro- 
fit; there is no sense at all in risking 
one’s money to hand the profit over 
to the politicians. Hence I expect to 
keep enough hens for our own table 
use, but not for market. 
Besides, while there is 
-across one tub, gave us two old wo-.. 
White Big Boston is a’ 
_ good variety. 
