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Late Potatoes. 
BY SAM LAWRENCE. 
There are two seasons in which potatoes 
may be planted with a greater chance of 
success than at any intervening time. The 
first of these is early spring; the other 
comes in summer. Both plans of planting 
have their advantages. Either of them 
may rank higher than the other in regard 
to profit, and in deciding which crop will 
pay best, the proximity of a good market 
at the time of harvest must be taken into 
conideration. If the potatoes can be dis¬ 
posed of easily and often, then it may be 
most advantageous to improve the earliest 
opportunity of planting. I do not wish to 
be understood to say anything against the 
early crop. I am willing to concede to 
much of the evidence set forth by “the 
early bird, &c.” This is the better time for 
gardeners to improve, but with others it is 
different. 
Farmers wfiio put their main dependence 
in raising corn and wheat should plant later 
for various reasons. These are some of 
them. When the early crop needs most 
work is just the time that can be least 
afforded in keeping the potatoes clean. If 
they are not kept free from weeds they had 
better not be planted at all. Something 
else must be sacrificed to keep them in con¬ 
dition, or the alternative is that they go un¬ 
kept. Then even if the farmer does raise 
potatoes as early as the gardener he cannot 
take them to market in such a busy time. 
After harvesting the wheat there is an op¬ 
portunity to haul off the crop, but at this 
juncture, in nine years out of ten, the mar¬ 
ket is clogged. So I found it, and this de- 
determined me to try late planting. 
From the middle of June to July is my 
favorite planting time, with the exception 
of a small patch of an early variety for hand 
use. I plow the ground intended for pota¬ 
toes twice. First when breaking the com 
ground and then again just before planting. 
The two plowings keep the soil damp dur¬ 
ing the dry season. The weeds that are 
plowed down act as a fertilizer, and besides 
their getting such a slap in the fall as the 
breaking plow gives them they do not again 
bother until the rains of September bring 
on a new crop. When plowed late, the 
ground does not become packed as it does 
in spring. It is easily kept clean, and 
besides the falls rains coming on as the po¬ 
tatoes are beginning to form, render all 
things more conducive to a late crop than 
the early one. 
With me the late crop makes a better 
yield than the spring planting. Coming to 
maturity as cold weather sets in, they are 
easily kept sound. Their keeping qualities 
give them the full control of the market in 
spring. After being in the cellar five or six 
months they come out in as salable a con¬ 
dition as when stored away. This gives 
an extended time in which to dispose of 
them at a profit. And I think, as it pays 
farmers to have their principal crop late, it 
w r ould also be well for gardeners to plant a 
few late ones so that they may have nice 
sound potatoes to use during the winter and 
spring instead of the shrivelled-up, tasteless 
forms that have been so long in the stages 
of decay. 
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