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The usual way is to plant them close
to-gether in a trench; cover the roots
with earth which makes trench for
the second row; when all are in a
compact bed, cover with fodder or straw.
Put stakes at the corners to support rails
a foot or two above the cabbage for
the fodder roof. You can get at the
cabbage when the snow is deep else
where. The drainage should be good
on all sides.
{10} A bulb bed, overgrown with grass. Dig it
up and plant in a new place or what?
Get the grass out without disturbing
the bulbs as growth has already started.
A member sowed some flower seed. They
have come up and a great many weeds.
The plants are very small should they
be weeded now? Better leave till SPring
many of the weeds are annuals which
the winter will kill.
{11} Rats! How destroy them? One member
put corn meal in a cracker box. Made
a hole large enough for the rats and
after they had feasted for several night
and ate greedily, he mixed Paris Green
with the meal. In this way John Bentley
cleared them out of his corn-house.
Albert Stabler caught 40, at Edgewood,
in a rabbit trap. C.F. Brooke has tried
many plants and killed hundreds and has
many left. No one has tried getting a
Pied Piper.
{12} Should the tops be cut off suget beets?
Cut part off but not close to the root.