The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, March 11, 1892, Image 3
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AIKEN, S. C M MARCH 11, 1892.
BANKING UP CELERY.
A Plan That Gives Satisfaction at the
Ohio Experiment Station.
Here at the station for the past three
years we have been raising our celery in
beds about four feet wide, and the plants
six inches by one foot apart, tells E. C.
Greene, of the Ohio station, in Ohio
Farmer. This method, by the way, pos
sesses some advantages that are not
gained by the usual way of planting in
rows. The way of handling, as thus de
scribed by a well known writer on rural
subjects—“the gardener now gets on
his knees, straddling the row and gath
ering up all the stalks of one plant after
another in his left hand, packs the soil
firmly around with his right to retain
them in a compact and erect position”—
seemed to be out of place in our beds, so
we tried string, by winding one around
each plant and then going on to the next,
keeping the string taut enough to hold
the stalks in place.
This was a decided improvement over
the way of holding the stalks in place by
earth until the rest of the soil was put
in, but when it came to taking the string
off the soil would be tramped around the
plants and the leaves and upper parts of
the stalks would be torn off, and the
time it took in removing it made us al
most want to go back to the way of
holding it up with our hands. All sorts
of suggestions were made to get rid of
the trouble of taking off the string, un
til some one thought that paper string
would do, and it would rot off and not
hurt the plant.
We put it on several thousand plants
and then waited to see if any injury was
done. When the plants were taken out
for winter it was found that very little
injury was done and this happened by
the careless putting on of the otring.
The plants were held in position by the
string until a rain came and settled the
dirt around the plant and wet the string
enough it would give way to the grow
ing plant. Some of the plants we gave
a second banking before the string gave
way and let the plant spread.
I have helped try a good many inven
tions but I never had any that worked
so well from the start as this one did.
We invented a little device for putting
the string on. First we held the ball in
our hands, but this was inconvenient.
So one day 1 went into the shop and took
a tomato can and punched a hole through
the bottom of it, nailed it to a stick, and
then with a piece of pantaloons’ suspend
er, with the buckles, fastened it to the
right arm above the elbow and at the
wrist, letting the string run out at the
bottom of the can and between the
thumb and forefinger. With this one
can wind celery all day. This plan
works just as well with the plants in
rows as it does in beds and does not
take quite so much string.
The Bush Lima Bean.
One objection to the old Lima bean
has been, with many persons, that it can
be gro't^^^MMa poles, which are both
unsigt^^^^^^Bktensive. The bush
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The State Sunday-school Conven
tion will meet at Marion on Tuesday
evening, April 5 prox, and remain in
session three days. Each Sunday-
school is requested to appoint one or
more delegates at once to attend
the expenses will be light. Any in-_
formation regarding this subject will
be cheerfully furnished by Mr. Frank
F. Whilden, the secretary of Charles
ton county, and all delegates are re
quested to report to him not later
than the 20th inst.
McELREE’S WINE OF CARDUI lor Weak Nerves.
When Mr. Springer remarked in
Congress the other day, “I would rath
er be right than President,” Mr. Tom
Reed wickedly observed, “Mr. Speak
er, the gentleman from Illinois will
never be either.
Mrs. L. R. Patton, Rockford, 111.,
writes: “From personal experience I
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rilla, a cure for impure blood and gen
eral debility” W. J. Platt.
*tf~BLACK-DRAJGHT tea cures Constipation.
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BUSCH HOUSE
AIKEN, S. C. '
HENRY BUSOH, Proprietor.
Rates $2 per day.
Special Rates by the week.
Busch House Transfer carries pas
sengers for Busch House Free.
OFOrders for Passengers and Bag
gage left at the House or at H. Busch
& Co.’s Store will receive prompt at
tention.
Tie Meville Hotel.
O N the main line of the R. & D.
Railway, opposite the station at
Graniteville, S. C., within five miles
of Aiken.
Comfortable rooms, and Table sup-
pliedw ith the best. Meals ready on
arrival of trains.
Refreshments served at any time of
the day to visitors from Aiken.
Five mails daily. House has been
newly renovated. Reasonable rates
of board and every attention given to
guests.
MRS. N. E. SENN.
The Trinity Church corporation of
New York has agreed to subscribe
$100,000 toward the purchase of the
site for the Cathedral of St. John the
Divine. The laying of the corner-
s:one of the cathedral has been defi
nitely fixed for All Saints Day No
vember 1 next.
WEST VIEW.
Near Highland Park Hotel.
The Grand Duke of Hesse has had
a stroke of paralysis that has affected
the entire right side of his body.
His condition in critical. He was
was the husband of the late Princess
Alice of England.
We truly believe De Witt’s Little
Early Risers to be the most natural,
most effective, most prompt aud econ
omical pill for biliousness, indiges
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MISS SEDGWICK’S.
ST. TIJADDEUS SQUARE.
The Scotch verdict, “guilty, but
not proved,” has been revised aud
improved by the Presbyterian church
court at Morristown, N. J., in the
case against the Rev. A. C. Dill.
The presbytery’s finding is, “not
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It is a fixed and immutable law
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