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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
May 19 
THE PLANET JR. IN A NEW ROLE. 
If one would realize how few new 
thinj^s there are “ under the sun” he 
should go into the Patent Office at Wash¬ 
ington with a, to him, brand-new idea, 
and examine the patents already issued 
covering the same idea. The chances are 
100 to 1 that he will find himself some 
years behind the procession. With an 
experience of this kind in mind, it is 
with great diffidence that I call the 
attention of Ihk Rubal Nkw-Yorkkk 
readers to the use of the Planet Jr. seed 
drill for giving “ lunches” of fertilizers. 
According to Bulletin No. 09 of the 
Geneva Station, the vegetables grown 
for exhibition at Chicago last summer 
were given repeated light dressings of a 
mixture of wood ashes and finest bone 
meal. This was sprinkled near the 
plants and cultivated in with the Planet 
•Tr. wheel hoe. This means a great deal 
of labor if the distribution be done by 
hand ; but I find that I can, not only 
spread the fertilizer on accurately with 
the seed drill, but can at the same time 
cultivate it in, thus saving almost all the 
time required for one operation. I am 
doing this, not in garden plots, but in 
field culture. 
I find that if the index is set at “Sal¬ 
sify,” the drill will sow about one pound 
to every 100 feet, wheti the fertilizer is 
quite dry. The drill will hold about 
three pounds of fertilizer. If at all 
moist, the fertilizer will not run through 
as freely, and the holes must be opened 
wider to get the same amount distrib¬ 
uted. I run the drill up one side of the 
row and back on the other, thus doub¬ 
ling the quantity of fertilizer per row. 
My plan is to give a “feed” this way 
every two weeks. By fastening a small 
piece of tin in the tube through which 
the seed is intended to pass, the stream 
of fertilizer may be divided so as to fail 
on each side of a row of very small 
plants. In this case the furrower is, of 
course, left off. n. h. eglkrton, .tb. 
A POTATO EXPERIMENT IN SULLI¬ 
VAN COUNTY, N. Y. 
Fertilizers No Match For Drought. 
Sullivan County, N. Y., has a soil well 
adapted to potato growing. When the 
land was new, magnificent potatoes were 
dug from the virgin soil under very 
ordinary culture. The potato was always 
a sure crop, as the light, deep, slaty soil 
which prevails in the greater part of the 
county, is genuine “ potato ground.” Of 
late, the crop has not been so prolific. 
This is largely due to the depleted con¬ 
dition of the soil, and in some degree, to 
the want of proper culture and to the 
introduction of new varieties. 
Having an interest in a farm in the 
township of Bethel, I undertook last 
year to see if by the use of commercial 
fertilizers, the introduction of new seed 
and modern methods of culture, the 
records of early crops could not be 
beaten. Though the effort was not a 
flattering success, the result could not be 
called a failure ; and, compared with the 
average yield in the county, it was at 
least a financial success, though not up 
to expectations. There were some dis¬ 
advantages to contend with, the discus¬ 
sion of which may be helpful. 
An acre of sod ground \vas selected, 
which sloped to the south and east. 
After plowing as deep as possible, and 
harrowing thoroughly with a Stevens 
spring-tooth harrow, 1,200 pounds of the 
Mapes potato manure were spread broad¬ 
cast and harrowed in. It was then fur¬ 
rowed as deep as the plow could run, 
about three feet apart. The seed was 
cut into pieces, with not less than three 
eyes to a piece, and dropped about 15 
inches apart in the rows About a week 
after planting, 800 pounds of the fertili¬ 
zers were spread along the furrows, and 
the ground was again thoroughly har¬ 
rowed. The plow was not used, but the 
Planet, Jr. cuJtivator was used freely 
during June and the early part of July, 
but, unfortunately, was neglected later 
on when it was most needed to counter¬ 
act the effects of a prolonged drought. 
The boys were too much interested in 
haying, and the potatoes suffered. 
One barrel of Early Norther and one of 
New Queen were furnished by Geo. W. 
P. Jerrard, Caribou, Me., and one barrel 
of Rural New-Yorker No. 2 and two bar¬ 
rels of Dutton’s Seedling from C. E. Chap¬ 
man, Peruville, N. V. The seed was 
selected with a view to variety, and also 
with a purpose to get select from a 
Northern latitude. The yield was as 
follows: Early Norther 1,740 pounds, or 
29 bushels ; New Queen 1,200 pounds, or 
21 bushels; Rural New-Yorker No. 2 
1,500 pounds, or 25 bushels; Dutton’s Seed¬ 
ling 3,000 pounds, or 50 bushels. Early 
Norther produced a little the largest 
yield, and the tubers were of smaller 
size. All were planted at the same time, 
but the Early Norther were about two 
weeks ahead all along. There were no 
small tubers in the R. N.-Y. No. 2, and 
Dutton’s Seedling, and no unmarketable 
ones of any account in the others. All 
were smooth, of good size, and excellent 
quality. 
The bugs were quite troublesome, and 
required frequent applications of Paris- 
green. It was applied dry, mixed one part 
to seven parts of slaked lime, with Leg¬ 
gett’s dry-powder gun. Not being able to 
give them personal attention, the boys 
were directed to watch them carefully 
and apply Bordeaux Mixture on the first 
appearance of blight, but in the more ab¬ 
sorbing hay gathering this was neglected. 
The same piece will be planted again 
this year, and an application of 700 
pounds of special fertilizer will be used 
in the drill. The results will be reported 
in due time. .i. .i. d. 
Recruiting By Science.— Queensland, 
Australia, has become quite a sugar pro¬ 
ducing country. The labor is largely 
performed by natives of the South Sea 
Islands. Some people have wondered 
how these lazy people have been induced 
to go so far from home. The following 
note in the Sugar Planter explains in 
part: 
When one of the Australian squadron 
was patrolling the South Seas lately, she 
came up with a sailing vessel, and one of 
her officers boarded the stranger. She 
proved to be a colonial craft, engaged in 
recruiting Kanakas for the Queensland 
plantations. On board, the naval officer 
noticed a phonograph. He was told that 
before the vessel left Queensland, the 
captain visited some of the sugar plan¬ 
tations where South Sea Islanders are 
employed. He took a camera and a 
phonograph, and then he went into the 
business of photographing groups of na¬ 
tives on the plantations, also taking in¬ 
dividual pictures of well-known natives 
from the New Hebrides, and others from 
the Solomon Group. 
Edison’s invention was then brought 
into service, the best known of the na¬ 
tives, especially those who had relatives 
and friends in the islands, being asked to 
speak into the phonograph anything they 
would like to tell their friends. Large 
numbers of these phonographed letters 
were procured, giving accounts of what 
sort of lile the Kanakas were having on 
the plantations, and any other news that 
would interest the “old folks at home.” 
After securing a good supply, the ingen¬ 
ious shipmaster sailed fur the islands, 
and, when last seen, was astonishing the 
natives. Many of the photographs he 
had transferred to glass for use with the 
lime light, and with the photographs 
and the phonograph he was in a po--ition 
to give such an ocular exhibition of life 
on a plantation as fainy changed the na¬ 
tive doubts into an enthusiastic desire to 
emigrate. 
Nor was this all. At the lime-light 
show he would produce a full-sized pic¬ 
ture of an absent friend, a native who 
was well known in the island in which 
the shipmaster happened to be, and to 
the amazement of his dusky audience, 
would make him speak words of greeting 
from his plantation home in Bundaberg 
—1,000 miles away. If any misgivings 
were felt before the phonograph was 
produced, that bewitched machine dis¬ 
pelled them by making the lime-light 
figure of their friend address the natives 
in their own longue, and in the same 
voice tnat they knew so well when he 
dwelt among them. Needless to say, the 
phonograph has proved a valuable re¬ 
cruiting accessory. 
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