2G6 GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 



ferable, when manure can be obtained in sufficient quan- 

 tities. 



Potatoes, when grown for market at the North, are 

 always a farm crop, the receipts per acre being much too 

 low for the regular market garden. The large quantities 

 that are planted usually prevent the use of manure in any 

 other way except in the rows. When thus applied, fur- 

 rows are plowed out in spring, after the ground has be- 

 come dry and warm, usually three feet apart, and from 

 four to five inches deep. The manure is spread in the 

 furrow, the " sets " or " seed " planted thereon from eight 

 to ten inches apart, and the furrow again covered in by 

 the plow. As- soon as the shoots are seen above ground 

 the ridge should be at once hoed, and the cultivator run 

 between the rows. As they advance in growth, the soil 

 should be laid up on each side against the row, so as to 

 form a slight ridge. 



The Potato disease, which has frequently been so dis- 

 astrous in Ireland and parts of Scotland, has never been 

 very devastating here. It is now well known to be a par- 

 asitical fungus, Peronosporainfestans, for which all reme- 

 dies are useless when the crop is attacked. Like all dis- 

 eases of this kind, the only help we have is prevention. 

 As far as experiments have gone, they have shown that 

 Potatoes are always less liable to attacks of disease or rot 

 if planted in new land, broken up from the sod, or at 

 least that which has not been long in cultivation. 

 Another enemy to this crop is the well-known Colorado 

 Potato beetle. Fortunately, for this pest we have a cer- 

 tain remedy in Paris green, mixed with twenty parts of 

 flour, applied by dusting while the dew is on the leaves in 

 the morning, or after a rain, or else in a liquid form of one 

 ounce of Paris green to ten gallons of water. But which- 

 ever way it is applied, it should be begun at the very first 

 appearance of the beetles. If they once get a foothold, 

 they increase so rapidly that the crop is often destroyed 



