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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 25 
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Going to Seed Early in Life. 
C. J., Billsbokough, N. Y.—In the 
answer to W. H., page 126, regarding the 
reason why beets and carrots sometimes 
throw up seed stalks the first season from 
seed, I do not presume to question the 
correctness of the theory that it is be¬ 
cause a hot season and a little rainfall 
may serve to change, from a botanical 
standpoint, their nature from biennial 
to annual ; but we hard-fisted farmers 
are prone to “ render a verdict in accord¬ 
ance with the facts.” If the change is due 
to the cause assigned, why does it not h ave 
a general effect upon the crop, instead 
of there being only here and there an in¬ 
dividual plant ? Why do we not find 
more such plants on a gravelly knoll than 
where the same rows run into low black 
ground ? Is it conceded that they are 
more common in a very dry season ? With 
all due respect to The R. N.-Y. 
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Growing Potatoes on Clay. 
C. G. Williams, Trumbull County, 
Ohio.— I had quite elaborate plans for 
testing the value of a good potato man¬ 
ure, UBed in varying quantities in the 
growing of potatoes on my soil, which is 
a moderately heavy clay. It was my in¬ 
tention to put from 200 to 800 pounds per 
acre in plots of one acre each, and in a 
small way to see what larger amounts 
would do. My small plot experiments 
were total failures. The seed used was 
of a rare variety and cut to one eye. 
The worst rains of the season followed 
the planting. It poured three days with 
hardly a stop, and as 1 lost two-thirds of 
the seed I gave it up. 
I was not able to carry out my plans 
for the field experiments either. I had 
the ground all fitted the first week in 
May, and a day set for planting, a planter 
engaged and, worst of all, considerable 
seed cut. 
A month later I was again fitting the 
seed bed, and after throwing away con¬ 
siderable seed and cutting fresh I started 
the planter. I succeeded in getting two 
acres planted, using 300 pounds of Mapes 
potato manure on one and 400 pounds on 
the other. I purposed to increase this 
amount on each succeeding acre, but was 
driven from the field and unable to start 
the planter again until June 14. In the 
meantime fully three-fourths of the seed 
planted had rotted, portions of it right 
over a three-inch tile drain with an ex¬ 
cellent fall. 
The greater part of the fertilizer went 
with the rains I think, for most of this 
two-acre plot was planted over without 
fertilizer and yielded no better than 
where no fertilizer had been used—eye 
test. 
At the final planting—June 14 to 17— 
I was pretty much discouraged and being 
anxious to get my planting done at least 
before digging time, I gave up the plan 
of using different amounts of fertilizer 
per acre and simply used 350 pounds 
straight. In the middle of the field I 
treated three rows as follows: one was 
planted without any fertilizer; the second 
with at the rate of 350 pounds per acre 
of a cheap fertilizer containing 2% to 3 
per cent of nitrogen and no potash; the 
third had at the rate of 350 pounds of 
the Mapes potato manure. 
The amount of land in the rows was 
computed, not guessed at, the fertilizer 
weighed, and the potatoes dug and 
weighed separately. Plot I. without 
fertilizer, yielded at the rate of 82 % 
bushels per acre; plot II. which received 
350 pounds of a cheap fertilizer, yielded 
at the rate of 109% bushels; plot III. 
which had 350 pounds of Mapes fertilizer 
yielded at the rate of 140 % bushels per 
acre; 22 per cent of the yields from plots 
1 and 2 and 16 per cent from plot 3 were 
too small for market. Counting mar 
ketable potatoes at 65 cents per bushel 
(what mine have netted thus far) and 
the unmarketable ones at 25 cents, the 
use of $4.97 worth of cheap fertilizer gave 
me 27 bushels °f potatoes, worth $15.17. 
The use of $7.52 worth of Mapes gave an 
increase over no fertilizer of 57% bush¬ 
els, worth $33.92. The better fertilizer 
cost only $2.55 more per acre than the 
other and gave 30%. bushels more. 
We had very wet weather for two or 
three weeks after the final planting, 
then dry weather right along. The 
yield was of necessity light, and there ! 
was a much larger per cent of small 
tubers than there otherwise would have ■ 
been. Have I not reason to be satisfied \ 
with the results from the use of high- : 
grade potato manure? . > 
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same result as storing over winter and 
resetting the following spring ; so that, 
instead of completing their growth, they 
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they naturally would in the 
second year, though, of course, imper¬ 
fectly. I have no doubt that the same 
result might be produced by forcing. I 
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both beets and carrots, in trying to force 
an abnormal growth for exhibition, that 
more or less of the plants would flatly 
refuse to grow beyond the ordinary size, 
but, late in the season, would show un¬ 
mistakable signs of throwing up a seed 
top. 
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