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The  Potato  Crop  in  1916 
(Continued  from  page  861.) 
above  ground,  a  deep  cultivation  is  giv¬ 
en,  and  this  is  succeeded  by  one  or  two 
shallow  cultivations,  after  which  the  rows 
are  gradually  ridged  up  in  two  or  three 
cultivations,  the  ridging  alternating  with 
shallow  central  cultivation.  After  the 
plants  are  fully  ridged  the  shallow  cul¬ 
tivation  of  the  center  of  the  rows,  so  as 
not  to  cut  the  roots,  is  given  about  once 
a  week  until  the  middle  of  July  or  some¬ 
what  later.  On  account  of  the  wet 
weather*  last  year,  an  unusually  large 
amount  of  hard  work  was  necessary  to 
get  rid  of  weeds  and  properly  ridge  the 
potatoes. 
Spraying. — Mr.  Fagan  began  to  spray 
in  April,  ns  soon  as  the  potato  bugs  be¬ 
came  evident.  Unlike  some  growers,  in 
these  early  sprayings  he  used  lead  arsen¬ 
ate,  three  pounds  to  the  barrel,  in  Bor¬ 
deaux  mixture.  This  year  the  first  three 
sprayings  contained  lead  arsenate.  The 
Bordeaux  mixture  was  homemade,  from 
stock  solutions,  and  of  the  4-4-50  form¬ 
ula.  The  sprayings,  eight  or  nine  alto¬ 
gether,  were  made  about  every  ten  days, 
according  to  weather  conditions,  the  last 
one  being  given  the  first  week  in  Sep¬ 
tember.  One  man  did  most  of  the  spray¬ 
ing,  driving  and  pumping  an  ordinary 
barrel  pump  mounted  in  a  wagon,  with 
four  nozzles  at  the  back  arranged  to 
cover  four  rows  of  potatoes.  The  man 
drives  as  slowly  as  possible  in  order  to 
coat  the  vines  fairly  well.  Of  course 
where  the  spraying  is  begun  so  early  and 
given  so  often,  it  is  not  necessary  to 
coat  so  thoroughly  each  time,  especially 
if  the  vines  are  sprayed  alternately  from 
either  direction,  as  is  done  in  the  less 
frequent,  but  more  thorough  hand  spray¬ 
ing. 
Harvesting. — Mr.  Fagan  usually  em¬ 
ploys  a  potato  digger  in  harvesting  his 
crop,  but  this  year  it  was  necessary  on 
some  of  the  land  to  plow  the  potatoes 
and  rake  them  out  hy  hand.  As  soon  as 
the  digging  begins,  he  starts  in  to  mar¬ 
ket  his  potatoes.  They  are  sold  partly  to 
the  stores  of  New  Britain  and  other 
towns  in  his  vicinity,  and  partly  by  re¬ 
tail  to  housewives  in  five  to  fifteen  bushel 
lots  for  Winter  use.  As  he  grades  his 
potatoes  into  first  and  second  according 
to  size,  and  also  picks  out  all  scabby  and 
grub-oaten  tubers  and  sells  them  as  such, 
and  as  his  spraying  largely  prevents  rot¬ 
ting  both  before  and  after  harvesting, 
also  been  use  lie  has  quality  in  his  pota¬ 
toes,  and  is  a  shrewd  salesman,  he  large¬ 
ly  disposes  of  his  crop  by  the  time  it  is 
harvested,  and  at  advantageous  local 
prices, 
A  Took  Season. — This  year,  as  last. 
Mr.  Fagan  had  20  acres  of  potatoes,  and 
his  total  yield  was  about.  5,400  bushels, 
as  compared  with  0.000  bushels  last  year, 
or  at  the  rate  of  270  bushels  per  acre.  To 
my  mind,  a  yield  per  acre  of  270  bushels 
this  year  was  better  than  one  of  300 
bushels  last  year,  since  this  season  as  a 
whole  was  much  more  unfavorable  for 
late  potatoes  in  this  State,  Besides  the 
cool,  wet  mid-season  weather,  which  was 
unfavorable  for  growth,  there  were  two 
other  factors  this  year  that  seriously  af¬ 
fected  late  potatoes.  Those  were  the  pre¬ 
maturing  of  the  vines  and  late  blight. 
I  am  not  sure  just  what  caused  this 
prematurity  of  the  vines,  especially  since 
the  mid-season  was  moist  and  hence  ap¬ 
parently  more  favorable  than  usual  for 
continued  growth.  Ho  far  as  I  could 
learn,  the  potatoes  in  the  higher  fields, 
or  on  the  knolls  in  the  fields  in  general, 
suffered  the  most.  This  was  especially 
true  of  the  Station  potatoes,  which,  with 
unusual  care  as  to  fertilizers,  cultivation 
and  spraying,  did  unusually  poorly.  This 
was  not  due  in  this  case  to  late  blight, 
for  there  was  scarcely  any  of  this  on  the 
foliage  of  even  the  unsprayed  vines,  and 
no  rot  whatever.  So  far  as  I  can  de¬ 
termine,  the  trouble  was  due  to  an  un¬ 
usual  form  of  tip-burn  of  the  leaves  in  a 
wet  season,  caused  by  the  sudden 
changes  from  moist  periods  to  bright  sun¬ 
shiny  weather,  the  plants  under  the  lat¬ 
ter  condition  not  being  able  to  properly 
regulate  the  evaporation  of  moisture 
from  the  leaves  to  conform  to  that  sup¬ 
plied  by  the  roots. 
Blight  and  Rot. — In  the  low  lands, 
like  Mr.  Fagan’s,  this  trouble  was  not 
so  serious,  and  so,  if  it  had  not  been  for 
March  4,  191G. 
blight,  the  vines  would  have  remained 
green  until  the  end  of  the  season.  How¬ 
ever,  it  is  in  just  such  situations  that 
blight  develops  most  rapidly.  As  a  re¬ 
sult  of  the  wet  mid-season,  by  the  end 
of  August  there  was  scarcely  a  field  of 
green  vines  to  be  seen.  The  first  week  in 
September  I  visited  Mr.  Fagan’s  fields, 
and  found  that  at  that  time  fully  two- 
thirds  of  the  potato  foliage  was  still 
green.  The  only  other  green  field  in  the 
State  that  I  knew  of  at  that  time  was  a 
very  late  planted  sprayed  field  at  the 
Station  farm.  In  low  fields  situated  as 
Mr.  Fagan’s  are,  a  considerable  percent¬ 
age  of  the  crop  was  lost  throtigh  rot. 
Yet,  despite  the  fact  that  part  <>f  his 
field  was  so  low  that  it  was  covered  with 
water  at  one  time,  practically  no  rot 
was  found  at  any  time,  either  before 
digging  or  after  harvesting.  I  was  able 
to  find  only  an  occasional  leaf  in  Septem¬ 
ber  that  showed  t.hq  blight  fungus,  es¬ 
tablished  evidently  where  the  spray  had 
not  thoroughly  coated  it.  I  estimated 
that  the  spraying  had  netted  Mr.  Fagan 
an  even  hundred  bushels  per  acre,  at  a 
cost  of  about  81 0  per  acre.  The  crop 
was  sold  at  ninety  cents  to  one  dollar 
per  bushel,  Of  course  it  would  have 
been  better  this  year  to  hold  the  crop 
for  higher  prices,  but  Mr  Fagan  has  not 
sufficient  storage  room,  and  he  naturally 
wanted  to  supply  his  customers  in  order 
to  hold  their  trade.  Today  potatoes  are 
retailing  in  New  Haven  at  $1,80  per 
bushel,  and  likely  eventually  to  reach  $2. 
G.  P.  CLINTON. 
(Continued  next  week.) 
A  New  Hampshire  Winter  Garden 
On  January  28  I  gathered  turnips  from 
my  garden.  In  Florida?  No,  in  New 
Hampshire.  It  was  the  seventh  and  last 
day  of  the  longest  January  thaw  remem¬ 
bered  by  the  oldest  inhabitant.  The  snow 
had  all  disappeared  except  in  shady  places 
and  the  frost  was  out  of  the  ground  for 
several  inches.  The  turnips  were  of  the 
round,  strap-leaf  variety  and  were  planted 
so  late  that  I  left  them  in  the  ground  as 
long  as  I  could  while  we  gathered  a  few  at 
a  time  for  the  table.  The  result  was  that 
a  few  got  frozen  in.  They  appeared  to 
be  so  fresh  that  I  pulled  them  and  they 
proved  as  palatable  as  any  just  from  the 
ground  in  Summer. 
French  endive  in  Winter  is  another 
new  experience  for  us.  I  am  informed 
that  most  of  that  in  the  market  is  im¬ 
ported  from  Europe,  although  it  can  oc 
raised  here  very  easily.  The  seeds  were 
planted  for  this,  my  first  crop,  in  June. 
The  plants,  which  much  resembled  dande¬ 
lions,  were  cultivated  like  any  other  gar¬ 
den  crop  and  left  in  the  ground  till  late 
Fall,  when  they  were  dug  with  the  carrots 
and  parsnips.  The  roots  were  trimmed  to 
six  inches  in  length — eight  would  have 
been  better — and  placed  upright  in  a  box 
about  two  inches  apart.  The  box,  which 
was  deep  enough  to  allow  eight  inches  of 
growth  above  the  roots,  was  filled  with 
loam  and  placed  in  the  barn  where  it 
would  freeze  and  remain  frozen.  The 
first  week  in  January  it  was  brought  into 
the  cellar  and  placed  near  the  boiler.  A 
little  water  was  added  occasionally  to 
keep  it  from  drying  up.  In  about  a  month 
the  leaves  began  to  appear,  white,  crisp 
and  of  a  delicate  flavor  that  has  placed 
this  at  the  summit  of  salad  plants.  With 
only  the  extra  work  of  carrying  the  box, 
or  boxes,  to  the  barn  and  cellar  anyone 
can  have  a  most  delicious  salad  plant  at 
hand  throughout  the  Winter.  A  succes¬ 
sion  can  he  obtained  by  bringing  in  a  box 
at  a  time,  allowing  a  mouth  for  the  leaves 
to  grow. 
We  are  trying  a  new  plan  with  pars¬ 
nips  that  T  read  about  some  time  ago.  The 
delicious  flavor  of  parsnips  dug  in  the 
Spring  is  due  to  the  freezing.  Roots  dug 
in  the  Fall  that  have  not  been  frozen  do 
not  possess  it.  Following  directions  I  dug 
the  parsnips  last  Fall,  covered  them  with 
loam  in  small  boxes  and  put  them  in  the 
barn,  whore  they  would  freeze  and  remain 
frozen.  As  we  want  them  I  bring  in  one 
box  at  a  time  and  begin  eating  as  soon  as 
they  have  thawed.  In  this  way  we  have 
been  enjoying  parsnips  all  Winter  that 
have  the  delicious  flavor  of  the  Spring 
crop.  w.  H.  II. 
“Wit at  ruined  your  business?”  “Adver¬ 
tising.”  “How?”  “I  let  it  all  be  done 
by  my  competitors.” — Boston  Transcript. 
