200 POTATOES, 



Cayenne. — This is a small variety, the fruit long 

 and tapering, bright red when ripe, and very strong. 

 It does, when ground furnish the pepper of com- 

 merce. 



POTATO. 



Solanum tuberosum. 



From each successive year's experience, the 

 shrewd farmer draws a practical lesson, which, if 

 properly applied, will materially assist in maljing his 

 special calling a success. There is very little to be 

 made in farming or gardening by the game of chance, 

 or, as it is sometimes called, " good luck," but in- 

 dustry well directed, will eventually be rewarded, 

 while carelessness and mismanagement are just as 

 certain to reap their reward. 



Every branch of industry has, from various 

 causes, to battle against a " blue " season, and farm- 

 ing or gardening forms no exception to the rule. At 

 present, farm wages are high, with no indications of 

 any change for the better. My neighbor asks, " How, 

 under existing circumstances, are farmers to make 

 ends meet ? " My reply is, substitute horse for hand- 

 labor, adopt better methods of culture, concentrate 

 the work and manure on fewer acres, so as to pro- 

 duce maximum crops, and by these means lessen the 

 cost per bushel of producing. The expense of culti- 

 vating is the same, whether the yield is one hundred 

 or three hundred bushels of Potatoes to the acre. 



The Potato crop is an important one in every 

 State and Territory in this country. Two hundred 



