. The lure of the land . nd fork and went out to the field, he soonreturned with the barrow full to overflowing. A second, a third anda fourth came by and it seemed as though there could not be so manycarrots in all the world. They were taken to the packing shed, which,by the way, was a very quickly improvised affair. Time did not giveus a chance to build an ideal one, so a strip of quarter-inch mesh gal-vanized wire was tacked to the rear of the barn, stretched out to the north and fastened to some stakes driven into the ground. The wirewas turned up at the edges and allowed to sag slightly i
. The lure of the land . nd fork and went out to the field, he soonreturned with the barrow full to overflowing. A second, a third anda fourth came by and it seemed as though there could not be so manycarrots in all the world. They were taken to the packing shed, which,by the way, was a very quickly improvised affair. Time did not giveus a chance to build an ideal one, so a strip of quarter-inch mesh gal-vanized wire was tacked to the rear of the barn, stretched out to the north and fastened to some stakes driven into the ground. The wirewas turned up at the edges and allowed to sag slightly in the center;this admitted of a good many vegetables being placed in it at once,while the spray from the hose of course ran right through. As a pro-tection from the drip underneath some old boards were placed in frontof the drain; a table made of old boards (some second-hand stuff leftfrom the barn) laid upon boxes, made the packing table, while an oldsailcloth fastened up among the trees with rope made good The improvised washing and packing house Mike washed and John bunched. They were sorted into two sizesand piled upon the table. Young carrots are sold with the leaves on,and nothing could have been prettier than that table ladened withorange and green. 335 bunches, twelve carrots to a bunch, was thefinal count; while added to that 173 bunches of pink, white, yellow andblack radishes made a fair shipment of root crops for one day. This plot of carrots covered a space of ground forty-six by sixty-seven feet and yielded, all told, 485 bunches or 5,820 perfect carrots. I think August twenty-second a good representative day of work atthis season. I give it to you straight from the diary: Ted finished cultivating celery and celeriac (we also put someBonora, which had been sent us by a good friend with an earnest peti-tion that we try it, upon the celery) in dynamite swayle, weeded and 113 cultivated all berries, udo and peanuts. Mike and Pedro limed thepatches where
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