460 THE POTATO 



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He feeds 400 bullocks a year in stone-wall 

 stables, under cover, bedded every day with straw 

 and peat moss to hold the liquid manure. They 

 are fed from 100 to 160 pounds of small waste po- 

 tatoes and ten pounds of cottonseed cake per day 

 with rye grass, hay or straw. He has 100 bullocks 

 on feed. They weigh about 1,040 pounds and cost 

 $100 each. He says that in forty days they will 

 weigh 1,200 pounds and bring $125. He never 

 grazes steers, but always feeds oil cake, potatoes, 

 Swedes and roughage in close pens. He values 

 potatoes at $7.50 a ton for feeding. The manure 

 of cattle fed a ration rich in linseed and cotton- 

 seed oil-cake is the reliance and success of his 

 potato growing. The cake and bullock manure 

 with the liquid manure he conserves with the dry 

 bedding of various kinds is worth $3 a ton, with 

 city horse manure at $1.50 a ton. He gets one 

 and one half tons of manure to a bullock. 



Without muck combined with artificial fer- 

 tilizer, potato growing would be an absolute fail- 

 ure. The advantage of growing early potatoes 

 is that he can grow a crop of rye grass or vetch, 

 before freezing weather, to plow under for green 

 manure or graze off with sheep and cake. 



Mr. J. Butterrs, Dunfermline, raises only main- 

 crop potatoes (late ) at a cost of $50. He grows 

 and selects his own seed, pits it and plants it 

 whole, using from 2,500 to 3,000 pounds of seed 

 to the acre. 



He has a special trade direct to consumers, and 

 cannot supply the demand for Langworthy at $20 

 a ton (37.3 bushels) because of the table excel- 

 lence of this splendid potato. 



He gets $150 an acre for his crop, making a 

 profit of $100. 



