1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
143 
Farmers* Clnb Discussion. 
(Continued ) 
two exceptions. Once, 1 200 pounds per 
acre jrave me an increase of 100 bushels 
per acre but the selling price was only 
18 cents per bushel. In 1893, I failed to 
give thorough culture, and did not use 
the Bordeaux Mixture; result, the prema¬ 
ture death of the vines, yet the increase 
sold for nearly enough to pay for the 
fertilizer. The use of fertilizers on other 
crops has given a marked increase, but 
not enough to be prodtable, though some 
friends a few miles away report very 
satisfactory results, especially with buck¬ 
wheat. 
Some years ago a field was planted 
with Chili potatoes. They were culti- 
yated twice each way with a cultivator 
and once each way with a shovel p’ow. 
Some of them were hilled perfectly, 
while others had no more earth over the 
seed than was put on with the hoe at 
planting. The latter were so prongy 
that we had to “trim ” them before mar¬ 
keting. while those that were well hilled 
were invariably smooth. After that, 
particular pains were taken in hilling 
and we seldom saw a prongy tuber, 
while others wVio were le^s careful, had 
many such I thought T knew what 
caused proncy n'ctatoes. but., alas ! the 
Burbank spoiled the theory, for no mat¬ 
ter how well cultivated, prongs would 
apnear tt-o’^gh less numerous than in 
peorlv tilled nieces. The theory that a 
check in tt’e g’^o'^th foBo^ed by a period 
of rapid growth causes prougs, seems 
unsatisfactory. T do uot think I had a 
pefk of prongy B, N -Y No. 2*s in a crop 
of C2.5 bush-Is. yet one row of Burbanks 
ng many Wh,-* trrowc ? 
While mv R N Y No 2 potatoes are 
not so large as O T P renorts. they are 
a large market size. W^ile picking up 
where the yield was best, I counted 
several crates well rounded up and the 
number, inclu'^iug all the small ones, 
ranged from 124 to 14^ per crate. I am 
pleased with their habit of large growth 
because on poor soil or in unfavorable 
seasons they will give a fair market size 
when other varieties are tro small ; on 
go-d soil, well fertiliz'd, p’enty of seed 
will. I think, reduce the size and at the 
same time increase the crop, thus making 
possible a much heavier yield than would 
be likely with smaller growing varieties. 
Grinding Sheep Mtnnre; Its Valne. 
S H W . Wkstox. Mass—U nder “We 
Want to Know'’ in The R. N -Y. of 
December 30. 1893 some one asks where 
to get a mill to pulverize peat. I do not 
know whether he wishes to pulver’zj it 
as soon as dug or not. I would throw it 
into piles and let it lie a year or more, 
when it will bec'^me fine But if he wish 
to make it fine by grinding or working 
it through a machine he can very easily 
make on® by using the pulver zing por¬ 
tion of a Kemp’s manure spreader set in 
a stationary box for a receptacle or hop¬ 
per, and attaching a tread-mill horse¬ 
power to it. I once bought a lot of 
sheep manure from the nens where sheep 
bad been fattened, and the manure had 
been t-amped down fo bard that it was 
more than it was worth to pulverz^ it 
As T bad a good many eords of it, I soon 
got tired of making it fiat by man power 
and went to work to make a machine to 
grind it I took the pulverizing part of 
a Kemp’s manure spreader and set it in 
the lower side of a large box made wide 
at the top and narrow at the br ttom. On 
one end of the roller that contains the 
spikes or teeth, I put a tmall wheel or 
pulley for a belt; on the other end I put 
a balance wheel. I then attached a tread¬ 
mill horse-power to the machine and as 
fast as two men could throw th se lumps 
into the hopper the machine would make 
them as fine as powder. I had the machine 
set high enoogd to back a cart under it, 
and I could grind the manure faster than 
one man could cart it 30 rods and dump 
it. 1 would fill one cart while he was 
emptying the other. I had heard and 
read so much about the value of sheep 
manure that I expected great results 
from it on stra’vberries. I think I ap¬ 
plied at the rate of 12 cords to the acre, 
but I never had a poorer bed of straw¬ 
berries and r have cultivatf-d them about 
40 years. T got neither good berries nor 
plants and I never have used any sheep 
manure since then until this year. I had 
set four dcz°n Marshall strawberry 
plants costing SIO per dozen and I wished 
to make all the plants I could from them; 
so I went to Boston one day to get some 
guano, but, to my surprise. I couldn’t 
find 50 piunds of guano in the city. The 
dealers bad some pulverized sheep man¬ 
ure that they said was better than guano, 
but advised me to use it very cautiously. 
They gave me what they.said would be 
enough for one anp’icationin a two-quart 
paper bag for tue foir dozen plants 
After it had been ou a short time, I 
found that the plants looked better. I 
then procured from the sheep market a 
number of bushels of j xst as good manure 
as I got at the s®ed siore for about a 
hundredth part of the price, and experi¬ 
mented with the strength of it. I put 
around some strawberry plants that were 
well rcoted a quart of this manure and 
it did not kill the plant, but where I put 
a pint tbe plant grew better than where 
I put the qiart. I then put a large 
bushel on my four dozen Marshall plants 
and had good results. 
R N.-Y—A “ sheep fertilizer’’ whi'h 
retai's in Rhode Island at the rate of $60 
a ton was recent’y analyzed by the 
Rho-^e Island Station. It was worth but 
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