. The lure of the land . 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 early cabbage, kale and kohl rabi had come out, sowing400 pounds. They also sowed 450 pounds Canada wood ashes on thealfalfa, and 600 pounds old rotted manure on the southwest and south-east quarters (these quarters had given the smallest yield), Pedro andMartin picked tomatoes for two hours, Tony all day spraying cauli-flower, cabbage and sprouts with Bordeaux and
. The lure of the land . 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 early cabbage, kale and kohl rabi had come out, sowing400 pounds. They also sowed 450 pounds Canada wood ashes on thealfalfa, and 600 pounds old rotted manure on the southwest and south-east quarters (these quarters had given the smallest yield), Pedro andMartin picked tomatoes for two hours, Tony all day spraying cauli-flower, cabbage and sprouts with Bordeaux and Paris Green. Sorted, washed and packed twelve crates tomatoes (1,200), threebarrels corn (650 ears), one crate corn (72 ears), one basket summersquash (36), one basket of cucumbers (60). John finished making crates. Ted cleared out the barn and stack-ed empty crates over the shower bath-room. John and Mike picked and packed the corn in two hours, broughtin two bushels and one wheelbarrow load of squash in forty Summer squashesand marrows I might insert here the crate incident. On the seventeenth dayof July a half car-load of packages in knock down shape arrived,they were stacked up by the barn and everyone except Mike exclaimed: Where do you intend to store them all winter; they will last acouple of years. O no, Mr. Fuller, you need more than him this year, Mike said,I know, you wait till cabbage and Bruss sprout ready. Why, Mike, well never fill those in the world, I said. You wait see, Mes Fuller. He was right, many a message has gone forth this summer forgoodness sake rush packages as much as you can, crops are spoilingfor want of them. But many barrels alas, are lying empty! Kale had been shipped two days previously, the plot thirty-one bythirty-nine feet yielded 355 heads, the last shipment filling three bar-rels. The kohl rabi, from seed from North China, yielded 144 roots andthe space occupied by them after being set out was thirty-one by four-teen feet. These
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