Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1909 — Fine Celery Raised By a Rensselaer Suburban Resident. [ARTICLE]

Fine Celery Raised By a Rensselaer Suburban Resident.

H. M. Grant is not a beginner by any means at raising celery and he has brought its growth around to a real science. To begin with he buys the very best seed and then plants the seed and transplants the young plants with great care in a fine black loamy soil with a clay subsoil. Nature does the balance. He is now engaged at his home at the north edge of town in digging and trenching about 7,000 fine stalks, the largest self-bleached celery we have ever seen, and the nicest as well as the largest. The Republican came in for three large stalks, and it| almost makes a “feller” wish he was a celery farmer when he eats it.