To Raise Celery

Ingredients

• one hand
• two wagon loads of dark rich dirt is enough to earth up six hundred plants
• six hundred plants

Directions

1. Make the ground as rich as possible with old well rotted pulverized manure, set the plants in rows six inches apart with twelve inches space between rows, without trenching-. As the plants grow and re- quire handling, earth them up by filling dirt in between the rows. Make rows about twenty feet long, and after filling in between the first two, lay a board on the dirt so filled in, and run the wheelbarrow on it to fill in the next space, and so on till all are filled. By this pro- cess six times the amount of celery may be raised on a given space of ground, and with much less labor than by trenching. By this plan you have the rich warm surface soil for the plants to grow in ; the heavy rains do not wash the dirt in and swamp the young plants, and you economize space. Great care should be taken not to let the dirt sprinkle in between the stalks of the plants as you fill between the ■ rows. After filling in the dirt, hold the stalks firmly together with one hand and press the dirt around them with the other ; twice or three times filling up will do ; and two wagon loads of dark rich dirt is enough to earth up six hundred plants. — Major W. D. Hall, Min- neapolis, Minn.