1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
205 
FARMERS’ CLUB DISCUSSION. 
(continued). 
fruit on the market in good shape. There 
needs to be a vast improvement m the 
way farmers handle their fruit for the 
local markets, before one can fairly 
judge of the possibilities of this branch 
of farming. While good apples sold here 
for $1 per bushel, equally good apples 
mixed with poor ones, went slow at 50 
cents. 
Crimson Clover and Cow Peas Compared. 
O. O. G., Aylett, Va.—I firmly believe 
that The R. N.-Y. has done its readers 
no greater service than in impressing 
upon them, as it has by line upon line, 
the value of Crimson clover as a soil im¬ 
prover. 1 am no chemist, but I can see 
very plainly how important it is to have 
some crop upon the land in winter, 
whose roots will catch up the fertilizing 
elements that would otherwise be washed 
out by the leaching rains. I believe that 
whenever the ground is in condition to 
leach, the clover roots are in condition 
to grow and take up those fertilizing 
elements. Then as a nitrogen trap, the 
clover is right there ready and waiting 
to catch the nitrogen brought down by 
the snows, and to feed upon the free 
nitrogen in the air. 
As valuable as Crimson clover is as an 
improver, I consider cow peas still more 
valuable. The seed for an acre will prob¬ 
ably cost rather more than the clover 
seed, the preparation of the ground less. 
Is not the shading of the ground in sum¬ 
mer as important as the roots in winter? 
I find that it takes pretty good land to 
grow a crop of Crimson clover, while 
p3as will grow on land too poor to grow 
anything else. Indeed, we speak here of 
dead poor land as “ land that is too poor 
to sprout black-eye peas.” Peas will 
make a growth of two feet, and have a 
good crop of peas on the vines on land 
that would not grow Crimson clover six 
inches high, while on land that would 
bring a good crop of clover, the growth 
of pea vines would be so rank one could 
hardly get through them—the vines 
several feet in length though, of course, 
lodged, and the yield of peas from 10 to 
30 bushels per acre according to the 
season. Just think of the fertilizing 
value of, say, 20 bushels of peas to the 
acre, whether fed on the land or plowed 
under. Youhave in the peas 1,200 pounds 
of high-grade fertilizer, not to speak of 
the vines, roots and leaves, and the shad¬ 
ing of the land. Then peas make a most 
excellent hay, though hard to cure. Even 
then, the land is improved by the shading 
and the mass of roots left in the soil. 
I have never known peas tried as en¬ 
silage ; but have often thought that they 
would be the best stuff that ever went 
into a silo. For hay or ensilage, a little 
corn ought to be mixed with the peas to 
keep them from lodging. Last year, I 
sowed my orchard to peas, and though 
we had no rain from May 2 to July 23, 
and many of the peas never came up 
(they were plowed in), the remainder 
held up by a few weeds were nearly 
shoulder high, and in some places ran to 
the tops of the trees. I don’t expect to 
use any other fertilizer in my orchard 
but peas with a little potash and South 
Carolina dissolved rock until I can’t plow' 
the orchard any longer. VVe of the South 
know something of the value of peas. 
Tell your readers of the North and West 
to try them in a small way at first ; to 
sow 1 bushel to the acre at any time 
from June 1 to July 15, put in with drill 
or harrow. 
R. N.-Y.—The Arkansas Station (Fay¬ 
etteville) has issued bulletins on cow pea 
culture. 
" The Light and Potato Sprouts.” 
J. Q.. Smithport, Pa .—Does the light have any¬ 
thing to do with causing potatoes to turn yellow 
after being put in the cellar, or is it the wind 
alone that is accountable for it ? 
Ans. —Yes, indeed, the light has all to 
do with it. Keep them in the dark until 
you wish them to sprout—in the spring. 
E. A. R., Alton, III.—Are you not a lit¬ 
tle wrong in the above statement? What 
harm does -light do to potatoes intended 
for seed ? Everybody, of course, knows 
that light greens potatoes, and thereby 
spoils them for eating purposes. But for 
seed, I think such potatoes are prefer¬ 
able, especially as far south as this, 
where it is very difficult to prevent pota¬ 
toes from sprouting during the winter. 
Potatoes that sprout in the dark, make 
long, white sprouts that get knocked, or 
have to be pulled off, weakening the 
potatoes by that much ; while potatoes 
exposed to light make short, stubby 
sprouts very hard to knock off, that take 
root when planted, grow stronger, ma¬ 
ture earlier, and are more productive 
than seed that has been kept in the dark 
and sprouted, as is almost sure to be the 
case as far south as this. The ideal way 
to keep seed here, I believe, is to keep 
the potatoes on shallow shelves, not over 
two deep, the shelves whitewashed above 
and below, and the whole kept in a 
place as light as possible. 
R. N.-Y.—There is something faulty in 
both the question and answer. Seed pota¬ 
toes will keep best if placed in a cold, 
dry cellar. If the cellar is damp, warm 
and light as well, sprouts will start early, 
and grow fast. We have always approved 
of placing sound potatoes in warmth and 
sunlight for a week or more before cut¬ 
ting them for seed. 
Another Success With Potato Sprouts. 
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Pittsburgh 
ANCHOR, 
Cincinnati. 
ATLANTIC, 
New York. 
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Pittsburgh. 
BRADLEY, 
New York. 
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New York. 
COLLIER, 
St. Louis. 
CORNELL, 
Hu (Tala. 
DAVIS-CHAMBERS, 
Pittsburgh. 
ECKSTEIN, 
Cincinnati. 
FAHNESTOCK, 
Pittsburgh. 
JEWETT, 
New York. 
KENTUCKY, 
Louisville. 
JOHN T.LEWIS & BROS.CO 
Philadelphia. 
M0RLEY, 
Cleveland. 
MIS30URI. 
St. Louis. 
RED SEAL, 
St. Louis. 
SALEM, 
Salem, Mass. 
SHIPMAN. 
Chicago. 
SOUTHERN. 
St. Louis and Chicago. 
ULSTER. 
New York. 
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\ j . O., Albion, N. Y. — I took one pound 
of the Great Divide potato, cut the tub¬ 
ers to one-eye pieces and placed them in 
a hotbed about four inches apart l}4 
inch deep. About May 1, when the 
sprouts appeared above ground, I re¬ 
moved the pieces, slipped off the sprouts 
and set them out, and put the cut pieces 
back in the hotbed to sprout the second 
time. When the sprouts were above 
ground, I slipped them and set them out 
as before. When 150 sprouts were set 
out, we had a rain, and it rained for 
about three weeks ; all the plants set 
out were lost before we had fair weather, 
the sprouts on the sets in the hotbed 
were from five to seven inches in height; 
they were then slipped and placed in a 
hotbed and in five days I cut off the 
tops and rooted them in another hotbed. 
Four times, the sprouts were slipped 
from the sets ; three times I took cuttings 
from the tops. The sprouts from the sets 
the fifth time were slow to start ; a few 
failed to sprout at all. I gave them the 
best of cultivation and watered them 
several times through the dry spell. 
They all did well, but the potatoes from 
the rooted tops were the largest and best 
shaped, but not so many in the hill ; but 
equaled in weight the others. The 
yield was 670 pounds. I also took three 
pounds of the Early Fortune potato and 
treated them the same as the Divide ; 300 
plants were lost of this variety ; the 
rooted tops did the best, as in the case 
of the other kind. The yield from this 
one was 950 pounds. I would not grow 
them in a greenhouse ; some would have 
small tubers and no roots and soon die. 
Some varieties will do better than others 
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- SUItEIlEAD UAHBAGE— 
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‘forissi o0is%t££M nm 
yielding over three times as ^ 
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