50 PRIZE GARDENING 



dies. Crop was at rate of one hundred and twenty-six 

 thousand five hundred per acre, worth two hundred 

 and fifty-three dollars and costing sixty-seven dollars 

 and sixty-five cents. Three pounds of seed were gath- 

 ered from five hundred grown specimens. Onions pro- 

 duced at the rate of three hundred and seventy bushels, 

 the Prizetaker variety proving the most productive. 

 White Portugal was smaller than Wethersfield or 

 Silver Skin. Peas gave about two hundred bushels 

 per acre. The produce of an acre of tomatoes sold at 

 five dollars per ton to the canners brought thirty-six 

 dollars and thirty-three cents. In regard to his potato 

 field of one acre, Mr. Atwood writes : 



The ground planted to potatoes last year had been 

 in corn the year previous. The variety was Early 

 Ohio. The seed was somewhat scabby and small, aver- 

 aging about the size of a walnut with the shuck on, 

 the larger ones being cut into pieces with one or two 

 eyes. The seed was cut as the potatoes were sorted. 

 We finished planting April 25 and used eight bushels 

 of seed. They were all up by May 15. They were 

 cultivated twice during the season, May 24 and June 

 I, with a two-horse cultivator, and harrowed the day 

 following the first cultivation for the purpose of 

 killing the scattering weeds and leveling the ground. 

 They were hoed after the first cultivation. At the last 

 cultivation the cultivator shovels were turned so as to 

 ridge up or throw the dirt along the row. On June 

 2.2 we went over the piece with a hoe and cut out what 

 scattering weeds remained. 



We began using new potatoes June 30 and con- 

 sumed twelve bushels up to October i, when the crop 

 was dug, the total yield being one hundred and fifty 

 bushels. The potatoes were dug or plowed out, using 

 the corn lister, it throwing a double furrow, one each 

 way, and being very convenient for that purpose. It 



