116 THE NEW AGRICULTURE. 



Not in the North, where demonstration of its great utility has 

 been first made, is it to perform its greatest wonders, but in the 

 South, the land of cotton and corn, will be seen its greatest 

 triumphs. Corn as a crop and for ensilage, and sorghum and 

 beets for sugar, can be grown to an extent and with a measure of 

 success hitherto unparalleled. Orange groves can be doubled and 

 trebled in yield, and not merely the English grasses, but all varie- 

 ties of fruits can be grown to a degree of perfection hitherto unat- 

 tained. And then too, the orchard. 



"Who shall estimate the wealth to come to North, South, East and 

 "West from a system causing trees to grow, though planted amid 

 droughts ? Nor only so, but a system under which the old fruit 

 tree becomes young and vigorous, making new roots, dropping its 

 scurvy bark, its parasitic mosses, and doubling, trebling, quadrup- 

 ling, and not unfrequently quintupling its yield of fruit. 



How about potatoes ? Let us answer this question by stating 

 results as regards a single row planted in the spring of 1883. We 

 had planted on lands near by for an early crop, when nearly a 

 fortnight later finding space for a row immediately below one of 

 our completed trenches, devoted it to the Early Rose variety. The 

 first planted potatoes appeared above the ground five or six days 

 in advance of this test row. By the first of June, the latter show- 

 ed much larger and finer growth of vines than the former, and the 

 potatoes of both matured about the same time, the 25th of July. 

 All were perfectly ripe, the earliest planted, however, were dwarfed 

 by blight, and more or less eaten by wire worms, their average size 

 being about that of a hen's egg. The vines of our test row lived 

 their full life, and died a natural death, showing a crop of marvel- 

 ous size, beauty and perfection. Suffice it to say that not a single 

 potatoe was found rotted in our test row, nor was there the mark 

 of the ' tooth" of a wire worm found, The potatoes averaged the 



