Show CELERY FOR SMALL GARDENS As A a rule it is only moderately profitable C crop rop one of most moat delicious of vegetables vegetable 13 dy y L al DENNI dennington NOTON celery la Is a fairly good market crop but there are many other crops that pay better in the famous kalamazoo district in michigan where w bere iere tile the crops crop to la grown exclusively on hundreds hundred 06 acres by experts it Is stated ahr that lands tha th average profit after r rental of land ld growing and marketing expenses aro are paid does not exceed per acre occasionally casio caslo nally we hear of a phenomenal crop but as a rule celery Is only modi irately profitable it Is a tine fine crop for every farmer t to 0 grow because it Is one of tile the most moat dei licious vegetables produced it Is not difficult to grow celery it requires bequir es exi cee rich land some commercial fertilizer and grea great t care in cultivation and bleaching lit in tho the kalamazoo district where very flue fine celery Is grown the soil Is a very black rich spot spongy agy sort of loam but good celery to Is grown on sandy land and on clay loam the ground must however be put into thorough cultivation and very 41 A 9 1 4 AA 0 A N 1 if T ii V th alv excellent crop of celery heavily in fact it ought to be well fertilized tor for at least two years yeara before being planted to celery to prepare the ground fi for r celery rows should be made about four feet fee apart and a light application of welli rotted stable manure and nitrate at 0 potash placed in the furrows the plants taken from the seed be bed should be set about eight inches aparo apar in the row and great cars care should be oba ob served in placing the roots in their natural position without crus crushing hing thel an anda doubling them up the soil then must be drawn firmly about the plants and all weeds must be kept down |