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SILK MANUAL, ANl^ 



(From the Baltimore Farmer.) 

 MIXED CULTIVATION OP POTATOES. 



wTa^-rTndebted to a subscriber in Washington 

 county Va. for the subjoined cotnmun.cat.on 

 detai ing a series of experiments in the ra.su. g of 

 poSt^es and corn as a crop - cornmo^. We 

 hank him for his favor; it is just such an essay 

 asis most valuable to agriculturists general y. 

 Practice esults are always preferable to specula- 

 tion and theory, because nothing being left to un- 

 cem!n y the husbandman is encouraged to go on 

 am follow the example of his successful neighbor. 



thereby greatly promoted. 



To tiie Editor of the Farmer and Gardener ;- 



Sir-1 have noticed in the Farmer and Gar- 

 , f thP 17th inst. a description of a sample 



T:::Jne ^^ P-sented to you, and also 

 "/uotXis of 'other samples for i-Pe-on, th 

 leightof the heaviest ot ^^l'.'^^^! .^J^, J V, 

 would state for the information of f<»''''^'^^-^' ^^ 

 Thave been a potato raiser for many years , and, 

 I have been a I , ^^ ^^1,^,^ engaged in 



L,l ,.«.-«.» o„ ,1« ^«^l^fj, 'o"„ aloes be- 



ceSre of the corn rows, my ci-op was hne on 



bushels taken f™" "'yj^ '» .^e 'ome to tbe 



raised f,o,„ tbe same quantuy of seed . y g^^^ 

 „„cb better than "' » Pf , J „X, Lt in a 

 The potato .s a '»S<^"'>,"= *" f.-,,;,,,, ,i,e com 

 "°°'' if but' v^^ii'.^ diXh:d''i„ the yieid, 

 ^h e ht^otr e.op is „.uch P™™-J„ fj,^: 



'*"^- , . tUn« hut little time is lost. 1 



plan of planting corn, and cover them with the 

 plough, at the time the corn should be ploij^^hed 

 [he firLt time. The n>ost labor m raising the 

 potato in this way, is in ^^^kmf them up in the 

 fall and putting them in the cellar. In 1832 my 

 ;:op was' valuable, it yielded 2400 ^-^^u'^o 

 the same way. In 1833 I had but a light ciop, 

 as before stated, owing to a severe ^'-^^g';^ ' '" 

 1834 my crop was 2900 bushels, the present ciop 

 was '2000. The potato is a P-fitable cro^-j 

 T find them, from experience in Ceding, good 

 food lor Iwrses, cattle, hogs, and sheep. The hog 

 is most benefitted to have tbem cooked and ma.h 

 ed and meal mixed among them. It is an easy 

 matt.^' and but little expense, to have a steam 

 : rbthment to cook Irom 1 to 20jiushe s at the 

 .ame time. I have one that 8 busheU tan be 

 cool ed in, in two hours. The plan is simple and 

 cheap inv tolerable handy farmer can fix one 

 ^^a trifling expense. Corn in tl^ ears or 

 shelled, cut straw, or any kind of food that it may 

 b e essarytohLve cooked, can be prepared m 

 U e Ba!;e establishment without any alterations 

 bng necessary in the machine. It may no be 

 u rteresting tl state a few circun.tances as to 

 the particulars of a part of my crop In 18.34 

 from 8 acres which 1 had in corn and Potatoes 

 t bein- a part of the land I had m the mixed 

 I op realLd an avei-nge of the two crops, corn 

 TnT'potatoes, rating the latter at 20 cents P^ 

 bt,«hel and the corn at 40 cents, of $52 per acie 

 besides pumpkins and beans: of pumpkins, I 



wathpred 6 wacgon loads. 



^t^:.! tile description of a lar^ij^^- 



the essay on vegetables. A r^.^'f '/^'f ^^^^^^^ 

 in my garden this season, weighed 12 pounds 

 with Ihe'tops and the sn.all roots trmimed^offj^^ 

 Washington County, V a- 



FEEDnNG Live Stock in WiNTER.-There is, 

 ped.:;rnothing relatmg to --1 e-..omy, la 

 which the farmers differ more both '" ^ emy 

 Tnd practice, than in feeding ^1-- -« e - ^^- 

 winter season. We speak not now of th« ^itte 

 Tnt kinds of fodder, or of their ^^-^^^^'^^l^^Z 

 in the feeding of stock, but merely oi the manner 

 and frequency with which the cattle are fed 



Many farmers believe it "->'«i;^"^^J\^' ^:;t,'; 

 to the good condition of their stock and the great- 

 to the g°°" ' . , , ^o feed them five times, at 

 est economy ot locuier, lo icc „,v.;1p others 



letst each day, during the winter while otheis 

 pTaclice feeding but three or four times m a day , 

 and again, others but twice. , - . ^f ,Kese 



FxDeriment glone can prove which of these 



wmtei in ui = experience on the 



