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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
"Second Crop Potatoes.” 
W. A. 1\, Wesson, Miss. —“Imitation 
slanders all g'ood things,” I find is prov¬ 
ing true of that very good thing, the 
second crop potato. This is called out 
by the advertisement which I see in all 
tlie agricultural papers that come to my 
table of “ Second Crop Potatoes,” ready 
October 1.5. So far as I can learn, there 
is no place in this country where such a 
thing can be grown. Last year’s seed, 
.saved over till May or .June, jilantedthen 
and harvested in early October, will make 
seed potatoes, better possibly for spring 
planting than average northern grown 
.seed ; but no one who has tested the mat¬ 
ter would be willing to pay seed potato 
prices for such seed. The Early TT’iumph 
is fully three weeks earlier than any of 
the varieties I see advertised as now 
ready, in second crop form, and my 
second crop of this variety, planted as 
soon as it was iJossible to get the first 
crop fit to plant, will not be fit to dig 
before the middle of December. 
The Enhance a Double Cropper. 
F. W., Phieipshurg, Pa. —I think it is 
characteristic of the Enhance strawberry 
to bear a crop in the fall. I had a few 
rows in my patch, and, owing to sick¬ 
ness, they were not cultivated as soon 
as they .should have been after fruiting; 
the grass and weeds had such a hold that 
the cultivator would not work, so I took 
the long plow and turned a furrow from 
each side over the rows and left them 
about a week ; then harrowed the ridges 
down till 1 could see the plants. The 
la.st of October, the plants of Enhance 
were full of blossoms and green berries ; 
one ripe one was found, but winter was 
too close for moi*e to ripen. There were 
no blossoms on any other kinds. I had 
the best potatoes in the neighborhood 
this year. They were R. N.-Y. No. 2, 
grown in old Timothy sod with a potato 
manure scattered in the rows. The fer¬ 
tilizer cost $18, and the potatoes could 
have been sold at the time of digging for 
to plow it in when as bulky as possible ? 
I am inclined to think the latter by far 
the more preferable. We have a badly 
run-down farm, but 1 have been able to 
make one field of 10 acres give me three 
good crops of oats, and this season, the 
first time cutting grass since seeding, 
gave us a little over two tons per acre of 
cured hay. 1 used 309 pounds of fertil¬ 
izer per acre with each crop of oats, and 
top-dressed in fall after the last crop was 
cut, with fine rotted sheep and horse 
manure, mixed. 
R. N.-Y.—As a general thing, on worn- 
out land, we would prefer to plow under 
crops so as to get the greatest amount 
of bulk and vegetable acids. Such lands 
are nearly always lacking in vegetable 
matter. We would, therefore, plow them 
under while green. The future treat¬ 
ment of that field, if it were ours, would 
depend upon circumstances. If possible, 
we would rather wait a year longer for 
the permanent grass, as we think the 
soil would be in better condition for 
seeding down after another year with 
oats and clover. 
Why Not Locate in Delaware ? 
E. (1. P., Dover, Dee. —The inquiries 
of M. ik C. and G. L. on page 743, and 
the reply to them by J. W. Newton, sug¬ 
gested the above question at once to my 
mind. If a change be decided upon, and 
a farm be the objective point, why not 
go where one can obtain the greatest 
combination of advantages, with the 
fewest drawbacks, for the amount of 
money invested ? Why locate where the 
year consists of eight months winter and 
four months spring and fall, when you 
can just as well go where six months of 
the year is exempt from even frost, and 
the other six have rarely a day so cold 
that you cannot work comfortably out 
of doors with your coat off ? Why buy 
a stony, hilly, so-called dairy farm, and 
good for nothing else, when you can buy 
land, level or slightly rolling, easily 
worked, with no stones, that will afford 
excellent pasture, grow clover so heavy 
as to stop a mowing machine, Timothy 
five feet tall, as big crops of wheat, rye 
and oats as can be found anywhere, 
white potatoes, sweet potatoes, peanuts, 
beans, peas, tomatoes, cabbage and truck 
$130. We did not sort them, but sold as 
they were picked up when digging. 
Plain Words ; A Clover Case. 
C. A. C., Ferrisrurqii, Vt.— The R. 
N.-Y.’s remarks on page 715 about fer¬ 
tilizers, hit the farmers square in the 
face, and set well, particularly with 
those who, like myself, have no knowl¬ 
edge of chemistry. They have done me 
a world of good, and show me plainly 
where I was groping before. 1 thank 
you for it ! The editorial, page 71(5, on 
the using of plain words to farmers, 
by our experiment station workei'S, is 
timely. Of course, by frequent refer¬ 
ence to Webster, we can, after hard 
study, make out their reports ; but not 
without. There is much need of re¬ 
form here surely. 
1 notice that a correspondent says he 
lets the clover kill down to plow under 
in spring. I would like to inquire if 
that would be as well as to plow it under 
green in the fall. 1 have started a piece 
of three acres as an experiment. I 
Ijlowed an old, worn-out meadow in the 
fall, sowed it to oats in the spring with 
10 pounds of Medium clover seed and 300 
pounds of fertilizer per acre. I took off' 
a fair crop of oats, cut this season a little 
over 1)4 ton clover per acre, and it made 
a great stand of rowen which we plowed 
under soon after the first heavy frosts. 
I am putting on good sheep manure, 
about 13 tons per acre, now. 1 wish to 
get the meadow into permanent grass, 
as soon as possible, and do not know 
whether to put in rye and grass seed this 
fall, or oats in spring ; or repeat the 
former treatment. I would like The R. 
N.-Y.’s opinion as to how best to handle 
it from now on for the desired effect. 
Would it have been better to let the 
rowen die down as much as possible, or 
of all kinds, corn 10 feet high and every 
kind of fruit found in the temperate 
zone ? Where there are no hills, and the 
roads are good the year round, while 
there are plenty of churches, schools, 
post-offices and mills at short distances 
in every direction ? 
While there are no “abandoned” farms 
in Delaware, it is still a fact that farms 
with fair buildings and all the advan¬ 
tages mentioned, can be bonght here 
now at from $30 to $40 per acre by going 
out a few miles from the larger towns. 
I am not a real estate agent, neither have 
I a foot of land for sale ; but 1 have lived 
and farmed it in Delaw'ai-e for several 
years, and know that 1 am stating facts. 
Snow is rarely seen here. Creameries 
are numerous and canning factories are 
in nearly every village. If one desire to 
raise cattle, sheep, hogs or horses, there 
is no better place than Delaware. The 
distance from Baltimore and Wilming¬ 
ton is 50 miles, Philadelphia 75 miles, 
with both rail and water communication. 
In writing to advertisers, please always mention 
The Ruhal New-Youkeu 
Did You Ever 
Hear of a bad case of catarrh that was 
cured by local applications ‘? The only 
way to cui'c catarrh is by purifying the 
blood, and the standard blood purifier is 
Hood’ 
JL -I. 
g Sarsa¬ 
parilla 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla. r^ures 
Its record of cures is 
unequaled. Its sales 
are the largest in the world. These state¬ 
ments are facts. Therefore get Hood’s. 
Hood’s Pills are purely vegetable. 25e. 
Great Things to the Acre. 
S. R., Troupsburg, N. Y.—I am greatly 
obliged to the gentleman of Summit 
County, Ohio, for such eye-openers on 
“ The Pos.sibilities of an Acre,” page (596. 
One of my neighbors put in 50 acres of 
grain, oats and corn, last spring, and 
harvested only 300 bushels. Another 
sowed eight acres to buckwheat and the 
insects took it slick and clean. I am the 
lecturer of our Grange. We meet next 
Saturday. I intend to talk beet culture 
to the poor fellows (we’re all hard up 
this year). We’ll all “Spill some seed,” 
“ Take them up on a shovel,” “Set in 
rows less than a foot apihrt,” by some 
onions if necessary, hoe but once and 
sell them at $1,000 per acre. We’ll let 
off the other .$104. One acre apiece will 
be all we shall care to grow the first 
year ; that will bring enough to buy all 
the flour and sugar, little caps and hats, 
boots and shoes, we need for several 
years. We will try not to feel above 
“common folks” and, perhaps, be able 
to send a car-load of hay to help feed the 
New Hampshire woodchucks (page 733). 
A SUHSCRIRER —Mr. J. R. Flemming, of 
Nova Scotia, tells us that he raises the 
White Elephant potato which yields 
large crops, but rots badly in some sea¬ 
sons. The Rural Blush is grown largely 
in Nova Scotia. He has the R. N.-Y. No. 
3, but is doubtful if it is the genuine. 
The potato he describes, as “ clear 
white and much the shape of the White 
Elephant. 
The White Elephant is much the same 
as the Late Beauty of Hebron. It is not 
improbable that the two varieties were 
raised from seed. Nevertheless they are 
.so alike that, grown side by side, neither 
can be distinguished from the other. 
The comparison was made years ago by 
The R. N.-Y. There was found to be no 
noticeable difference in plant, tuber or 
time of maturity. It is well known that 
now and again the White Elephant or 
Late Beauty of Hebron rots badly. 
Undoubtedly our friend has not the 
true R. N.-Y. No. 3. It is an oblong 
potato, half flattened, with few eyes, 
smooth and of almost perfect shape. 
The White Elephant is long, uneven, 
hilly, with deep eyes, rather cylindrical 
than flattened. 
A WEEK or so ago, we received from 
Ellwanger & Barry a box of Anjou pears. 
They ripened fully December 1. The 
average size was 10 inches around the 
body, and nearly the same around the 
stem and calyx. They vary in form 
notably—some being more pyriform than 
others, some have more of the Keiffer 
shape, and still others more of the 
Duchess. The stems, too, are set 
obliquely in some, in others vertically. 
So, also, the stem cavity varies. The 
calyx basin is always shallow, smooth 
and russeted. Some of these pears de¬ 
veloped a crimson cheek more conspicu¬ 
ously than is usually .seen in the Anjou. 
There may be a better pear of its sea¬ 
son, but we must ask our readers to name 
it. 
Do American chestnut blossoms self-fertilize ? 
Two years ago, I visited a lone chestnut from 
seed, probably 50 years old, 20 inches in diameter 
at the base, the largest and oldest I know in this 
region. The owner said it had borne full crops of 
burrs without chestnuts every year until 1892, 
when it bore a partial crop. Why then and not 
before? He thought because some young chest¬ 
nut trees on the next farm, say, 40 rods away, had 
that year come into bearing. 
So writes our friend, F. K. Phoenix of 
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