[Makoh, 
AMERIO.AlS^ AaEIOULTURIST 
1884.] 
Scab in Potatoes.~The Mapes Potato Manure. 
DR. F. M. HEXAMER writes in January No. of American Garden ” as follows : 
“ Extensive experiments with remedies for Potato scab have long since convinced ns of ,the efidcacy of some special commercial fertilizers, and although the cause of scab 
is not positively known, its destructions can in most cases be entirely prevented. Eecent experiments in this regard, made by Dr. llenry Stewart, Hackensack, N, J. fully 
coiToborate our own experience. The Doctor writes:” ’ 
“ I have ^ust been digging some of my Potatoes (Early Eose), and send you samples. The clean large one is a fair specimen of some rows manured with the Mapes Po¬ 
tato Manure, eighty feet of row manured with the fertilizer produced one barrel, two and a half bushels. As the rows were three feet apart, the yield is equal to one hundred 
and eighty barrels, or four hundred and fifty bushels per acre. The other Potato, shown in our illustration, engraved from a photograph, is a fair specimen of those grown 
with cow and hen manure, yielding a barrel of fair Potatoes to three hundred feet of row, equal to a hundred and twenty bushels per acre. A large quantity, quite a half of 
this part of the crop, was completely destroyed by wire worms, and not more than half those saved would be fit for sale. Not a Potato, of those grown witli the fertilizer alone, 
is touched by the worms enough to hurt it. I used ten loads of manure to a quarter of an acre, and fifty pounds of the fertilizer to one-eighth of an acre." 
“Strong as this testimony is, we do not wish to convey the idea to our readers that we believe Mapes’s Potato Manure, or any other fertilizer we are acquainted with, to be 
an infallible specific againstjscab. There may be certain conditions in some soils and seasons, which defy and counterbalance its anti-scab properties to some extent. Yet we 
have never observed an instance in which, when properly applied, it was not productive of decided benefit. The results of recent experiments made at the “ Eural Grounds,” 
where 1048 bushels of Potatoes per acre were, grown with an application of COO pounds Mapes’s Potato Manure, while tmmanured ground under the same cultivation produced 
but an average of 200 bushels per acre, are especially notable in this regard.” 
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How Watch Cases are Made. 
In buying a silver watch case gieat care 
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