The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-01-13
WINTER MARKETING.
How TO Save Work and Make Money
In Celery, Cabbage, Etc.

Digging vegetables out OF pits on cold
days when the ground is frozen is not
agreeable work and is often done with
great risk to health so a New York cor
respondent Of the Ohio Farmer has
shrewdly planned to avoid all this ID so
far as possible. Here are some Of his
methods:
l have in the cellar lot of boxes
filled With celery, which was put up in
the following way: About Nov. we
drew lot of boxes to the field where
the celery grew and put about two
inches Of soil in the bottom Of each box,
then lifted the celery with the spading
fork, leaving little soil on the roots,
and set the plants upright in the boxes,
packing the soil around the roots as it
was put in. When the boxes were filled,
We drew them to the cellar and watered
the celery in the boxes by setting tube
in the box with funnel on the upper
end to convey the water to the roots of
the celery without wetting the leaves
or stalks, for this will cause them to
decay. Two or three weeks before /
wanted to blanoh the celery / covered
the boxes with. cloth, for all that is re.
quired to blanch celery is to cause it to
grow in dark place. The average size
IF the boxes is 2 by feet, and they
hold from % to so plants When mar
keting, we place few boxes in the
wagon, and if the weather is cold cover
the boxes with blankets to keep the Gel
cry from freezing. Some of our custom
ers will take several punches, as they
San place the roots in sol in the cellar
and keep it several days, and some will
take whole box to put in the cellar for
winter use. This plan of marketing |
think will satisfy my customers and
save much disagreeable work in trim
ming and handling celery in cold
weather.
My boxes in which I packed the eel
cry were picked up at the stores and
cost about 5 cents each. have also
quantity of celery stored in the cellar,
which 1 shall put up for marketing in
cold weather as follows: ] will trim it
ready for use, then wrap it in paper,
making lunches of different size, to sell
for 5, 10 and 25 cents. These will be
packed in baskets holding about six
dozen plants
Other vegetables which / market in
winter are usually cabbages, onions,
squashes, turnips, etc. The O. bbages
trenches outdoors, and ON warm days
in the winter we try to get out sup
ply to last several weeks and store them
in the cellar. The most profitable cab
hage for me to grow for fall and winter
nse is the Early Winningstadt. The
beads are not so large as some of the
Drumhead varieties, but they are of
better quality and are very solid. AS
they have less loose leaves | can grow
about one-third more ON the same
ground and get more tons per acre.
There are so many people growing cab
bages near me that during the fall and
winter they are often slow to sell, but
mine keep we'll in the trenches until
spring, when the cabbages are mostly
out of the market, and they bring good
prices.
Onions and squashes are stored in the
cellar in the fall and are handled with
less work than the other vegetables
mentioned. Onions pay the best here in
September. when there is a demand for
them from people who are making
pickles, and then late in the winter,
when the most of the crop has been dis
posed of.
In my locality if one can grow good
crop Of Hubbard squashes be can make
money, for they often retail for 5 cents
per pound. A profitable combination of
crops which | suggest is early sweet
corn and Hubbard squashes on the same
ground, aud would advise putting in
well rotted manure in the hills where
the squashes are planted.