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The vohniteer diishecii :\Ui'V llu' polatoes wore (lut;. and \vlii( li i-aiiu' u\> nmonv: llie jiiitntoe^ 



ens can not take off a bite, for tlie leaf must 

 be fast on something. But as this stuff is 

 (lumped on the one-inch poultry netting, or 

 up against it, they will greedily take every 

 scrap of it by snipping off fragments just 

 riglit to swallow. The thing worked to per- 

 fection all winter. 



Let me say here that tlu' best ration for 

 chickens to make them lay I ha\ e ever 

 found is small potatoes — too small to be 

 sold even as seconds — mashed up while boil- 

 ing hot, and mixed with middlings. We 

 have l;') hens, saiiic of them several years 

 old. But 1(1 to 12 eggs a day is a common 

 thing for them. We had all the eggs all 

 winter that a family of three could Ur:e, and 

 (juite a few were sold at the grocery. 



Fig. '2 gi\'es vou another glimiise of this 



poultry yard. Alter 1 had grown and sold 

 a fine yield of Red Triumph potatoes, the 

 dasheens came up as a volunteer crop. In 

 fact, they were growing up among the ])0- 

 tato vines long before the potatoes were tit 

 to dig; and they had no cultivation e.'^cept 

 to avoid hurting them when digging. No 

 dasheens had been grown on that sjiecial 

 plot of ground, and so I can not really tell 

 how they came there. 



Fig. Ij gives another glimpse of a part 

 of the same yard. A single clump of dash- 

 eens had been allowed to grow there for 

 two or tliree years. I think I have told 

 you I oiic(> got a lieaping half -bushel of 

 dasheen tubers from one hill. This one hill 

 would certainly make a heaping irhccli.dr- 

 niirfiil. While the artist was taking the 



One liiU c,r (l.Mshrciis lh;il will prdl.iihly -ive ;i luNipiliL,- wliecllaiT.iw fill 



