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Last year we sprayed the following °* seed potatoes (whether single eyes, 
Bordeaux Mixture on our potato vines several eyes, half or whole potatoes) 
three times during the season, using the which is likely to give the largest profit- 
Aquapult hand pump and Vermorel noz- able yield will do well to send to the 
zle : One ounce of copper and a fraction Michigan Experiment Station (Agricul- 
less than one ounce of lime to every gal- tural College, Lansing, Mich.), for bul- 
lon of water. There was no blight of letin No. 93. It gives the results not 
vines or rot of tubers and the vines re- only of many original experiments, but 
mained green longer than those of that a compilation of the results of those 
portion of the plot not sprayed. made by 12 other stations. The sum of 
This formula may not be strong enough the information thus carefully gathered 
for other seasons or places; it may not and presented is the most satisfactory 
be strong enough for grape vines But summary of the problems so long worked 
for either grape vines or potato vines, we upon that we have seen, 
do not advise a stronger formula than q p. Merritt, of Aroostook County, 
the following : Maine, makes a poor report for the Free- 
Two ounces of copper sulphate to every man potato in the Country Gentleman, 
gallon of water. This would be about jj e says that more than 100 farmers of 
6 pounds to 50 gallons of water, the that noted potato-growing county gave 
amount of lime for the 50 gallons need the Freeman a trial in a small way and 
not be over 4% or 5 pounds, though we << failure” is thus far the verdict. “ The 
know of no objection to using equal yield is light,” he says, “ the tubers small 
weights of lime and copper, thus : and of inferior quality.” We are not 
8ix pounds of copper and six pounds of surprised to hear that the tubers were 
lime to every 50 gallons of water. small, but we cannot believe that the 
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|ir We also make the Rest 
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y MIXTURE thrown as readily as 
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Does it in the long run pay to sell pota¬ 
toes in the spring or fall ? 
It is a mistake to assume that soft¬ 
wood ashes are, weight for weight, of 
much less value than hard-wood ashes. 
Soft woods yield very little ashes and 
they are comparatively light. But the 
per cent of food constituents is much the 
same if weight, not bulk, be considered. 
Cotton seed hull ashes contain from 
five to eight per cent of phosphoric acid 
and from 18 to 25 per cent of potash. 
The higher the grade of fertilizer 
bought, the less will be the expense of 
handling and freight. The same may be 
said when the raw material is bought 
and mixed at home. 
Abstracts. 
-Life: “ When we don’t spend our 
money we are economical; when other 
people don’t spend their money they are 
stingy.” 
-T. H Hoskins: “ ‘ Hayseeds ’ are an 
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should seek the very best practical edu¬ 
cation for his sons and daughters, and 
be willing, above everything else, to sus¬ 
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less than a horrible mistake when the 
bounty of the national government, vot¬ 
ing great sums to every State for indus¬ 
trial education, left even the least loop¬ 
hole for the diversion of that money from 
its true intent—the higher education of 
our farmers and mechanics.” 
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It is true enough, no doubt, as The K,. 
N.-Y. has always contended, that if one 
is going to buy fertilizers in ahap-hazard, 
lottery way, the safest thing to do is to 
buy a high-grade, complete fertilizer. 
This will surely increase his crops if the 
soil stands in need of lime, potash, phos¬ 
phate and nitrogen—one or all. It is also 
true that if his land does not need one or 
the other of such food constituents, he 
will be purchasing food to that extent 
not at present needed. But the only way 
he can find out what his soil does need is 
by experiment, and until that time he 
had better be on the safe side and invest 
what money he may care to invest in 
complete fertilizers that will surely in¬ 
crease his crop than in one-sided fertil¬ 
izers that are likely to fail. 
During the past winter the tempera¬ 
ture fell as low as 20 degrees below zero 
at the Rural Grounds. Seedlings of the 
Paragon (Japan) chestnut, three years 
old, were not harmed. 
According to the ruling results of fer¬ 
tilizer experiments made by 36 different 
farmers in Alabama under the direction 
of the State Experiment Stat'on for the 
past two years seven of the soils were de¬ 
ficient in the three main elements and 
needed, therefore, a complete fertilizer ; 
eight were found to be well supplied 
with potash since potash did not increase 
the crops. The other experiments taught 
nothing. Floats and nitrate of soda 
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