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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 17 
Another Frand Abroad. 
C. H., Mine La Motte, Mo—T he old 
sayinff, “ Forewarned is forearmed,” is a 
pretty good text to stick to, and I think 
I have an opportunity to practice it. 
Knowing what an immense amount of 
newspaper circulation and advertising 
was given Compound Extract of Salix, 
and more recently the Black Pepsin 
fraud, I would call the attention of The 
R. N.-Y. to another swindle in the same 
line—Gastric Sodia. While I hope none 
of the readers of The Rural may be 
caught by this new bait, yet there may 
be some who have j jined The Rubal 
family circle since the Black Pepsin was 
disposed of, who might be inclined to 
nibble. The Rural, being a paper of 
very large circulation and influence, is, 
to my mind, the best means of reaching 
other papers also. 
The Earliest Potato. 
J. H. J., Troy, Pa. —The question of 
G. W. Parker in The R. N.-Y. of Jan¬ 
uary 27,- page 62, about the best early 
potato as to productiveness, is one that 
is difiicult to answer. I found one year 
that the Early Ohio fllled the bill, the 
next year the Early Vermont and the 
third year the Boston Market. Last sea¬ 
son the Sunlit Star was ahead. The 
quality of the Early Ohio is hard to beat. 
Burpee’s Extra Early or Alpha, Early 
New Zealand or Early Wisconsin, and 
Sunlit Star are desirable for early varie¬ 
ties. The New Qaeen, Chicago Market, 
Boston Market, Early Maine, Early Ver¬ 
mont, Alpha and Early Ohio are among 
the earliest and best for me. The Free¬ 
man has not done well for me. Our soil 
is not all alike, and so our yield of pota¬ 
toes varies. What is best for me might 
be second or third for G. W. P. 
The Burrless Chestnut Ag^ain. 
G. C. M., SUNSIDE, N. Y.—In regard 
to An Unheard-of Chestnut referred to 
by II. W. H., Greene County. N. Y., on 
page 6 of The R N -Y., I would say that 
I have known it for 54 years. The tree 
is now about 70 years old and vigorous. 
It produces nuts without burrs, three to 
a calyx. I have cut scions and sent to 
parties desiring to propagate the variety, 
and some may be in bearing. It will be 
difficult to send fruit from that tree, as 
the squirrels, crows, blue jays, etc., take 
them very soon unless they are bagged 
with woven wire. 
Bend the Hoe In. 
F. T., Clyde, O.—In The R. N.-Y. of 
January 20, page 38, under “ A Few Re¬ 
members,” I read E. D. R.’splan of fixing 
a hoe. In this land of truck, we fix our 
hoes just the reverse. Instead of bending 
the hoe out, we bend it in so that the 
back or upper part of the blade will be 
about one inch frcm the floor when held 
in position for use. Sharpened on the 
upper or front side, we can cut grass and 
weeds out of a row without hoeing all of 
the soil out with them. 
Unripe Potatoes for Seed. 
J. C. P., Louisville, Ky.—I t was dis¬ 
covered by a gardener in this county 
(Jefferson) some 12 or 14 years ago that 
by planting in July immediately after 
digging and marketing ^his first crop of 
potatoes he could get a second crop 
nearly as large. This, of course, was an 
important discovery, but nothing com¬ 
pared to the discovery he made the next 
spring when he planted some oof the 
tubers from the second crop. They came 
up at once, sending up only one shoot 
whether planted whole or cut to one eye ; 
they grew strongly and produced all big 
potatoes, no small ones. He had the 
best crop he ever grew by 50 per cent 
and the reason was that the second crop 
seed, being unripe when dug, had kept 
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H. Y. STATE DRAIN TILE AND PIPE 
76 Third Avenue, ALBANY, N 
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perfectly in his cellar without sprouting 
or shriveling as mature seed, whether 
home grown or Northern, will do. It was 
not long before the raising of second 
crops, both for market and for seed, 
spread throughout the gardening district 
surrounding Louisville, and now potatoes 
are forcing cabbage and other crops out 
of the fields. The business has grown at 
least 400 per cent here within 10 years 
and is spreading in Kentucky and the 
South. Besides their certainty and 
strength as growers, the second crc p 
seed have the great merit of keeping per¬ 
fectly after being cut ready for planting, 
I cut mine six weeks or two months be¬ 
fore planting time—whenever it ’s con¬ 
venient—and thus I am always ready to 
take advantage of a favorable season for 
putting them in the ground. The only 
care required is that the cut seed must be 
kept in barrels open at the top and no 
where else. If there are holes in the 
barrel, a few at the exposed places will 
deteriorate. I do not suppose that two 
crops from one field would be practicable 
in the North, but a second crop for seed 
could doubtless be grown by planting in 
July. But whether they can or not, no 
one. North or South, would ever plant a 
mature potato after seeing what an 
unripe second crop tuber will do. 
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