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-;c RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 29, 1922 
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Heating 
Across Fence Opinions 
know that the chemists have analyzed 
rain at different seasons of the year, and 
found that the Spring rains contain much 
more plant food than those coming in the 
middle of the Summer?” 
“It sounds reasonable,” admitted the 
older man. “It would explain why 
the Spring foliage is so bright a green. 
You’ve noticed how tin 4 first grass always 
lo'ks as if it had fertilizer behind it. I 
wouldn’t, be surprised if it was true.” 
“I lay it to Spring ruin that my first 
planted potatoes always turn out the 
best." the young grower said, smiling. 
“Rut it seems a bit bard to believe until 
you remember tbe presence of nitrogen 
in the air.” Tie had finished his work 
with only one chunk of seed to spare. His 
neighbor glanced down curiously. 
“That looks like the tip end of a 
potato.” lie remarked. "Some folks plant 
’em. but T’ve always found that a small 
pieee with a lot of sprouts on it like that 
produces small potatoes. So I always cut 
it off and throw it away, or feed it to the 
pigs." 
“It is entirely possible.” admitted the 
younger man. “to cut. the bud end so 
small that there is really not enough 
nutriment left to support the number of 
strong sprouts there. We try to give 
special consideration to the hud end for 
this reason. For we have found that the 
terminal hud seed piece is the strongest 
part of the potato. It comes up first, 
produces a stronger plant, and, with 
proper fertility, the most potatoes, I 
have considered saving out these hud ends 
for the first acre just to see what they 
could do. The difference is so plain that 
it can he seen by glancing along the row.” 
“Youi- seed seems to have skinned in 
digging," the man across the fence ob¬ 
served cautiously. “Looks as though it 
wasn’t well ripened. Don’t, you think 
it would have done better fully matured?” 
“No. I don’t," answered the young man 
quickly. “A young potato is really like 
a young animal, better able to throw ofF 
disease nud to survive weather condi¬ 
tions. It is claimed, too, that a certain 
amount, of vitality is used up in the 
process of ripening. You wouldn’t select 
your oldest stock for breeding, would yon? 
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but. I’ve worked 
with potatoes so long they seem almost 
human." 
"Well.” said the older man, “your ideas 
are nil right, but for a man like me the 
little things don’t matter so much. I 
grow potatoes every year, good ones, too, 
without thinking much about, them. It 
seems to be getting dark. Good luck to 
you !” MRS. F. W. UNGER. 
It was the time in the evening when 
dusk merges into dark, and. wishing to 
use every precious hour of hue weather, 
the young potato-grower was out on the 
further side of his field fixing the ends of 
the ridges where the planter had left 
them open to wind and weather. Every 
other one needed a hoe full of dirt, and 
often he took a chunk of seed from his 
pail to even up a row. It was a quick 
job, but one that was continually being 
put aside for the more important ones of 
planting or cutting seed. He was glad to 
get it off his mind. 
The field joined his neighbor’s clover 
lot, a contrast to the earthy brown of the 
cultivated ridges. It was a fine stand 
of clover, green and heavy stalked, as 
clover ought to he. The man that grew 
it. knew his business. And as the young 
potato-grower glanced over it with critical 
eye, be saw his neighbor coming across to 
talk with him while he worked. 
’“Well, I see you’re at it. again, early 
and late!” 
“It’s a nice time to work while the 
sun’s going down.” smiled the younger 
man. I can just about keep up with the 
day’s work by coining out in the evening 
like this. It isn’t much of a job. but it 
has to be done to even off the end.” 
“That’s the way with machinery.” said 
the man across the fence critically. “It 
never does a perfect job—always some¬ 
thing to be fixed up after it. I always 
would rather go on and do the work by 
hand and get done with it. Of course 
I don’t plant in drills anyhow. I plant 
my seed a yard apart in the row so I can 
cultivate both ways. That’s the only way 
I can keep the weeds out. I never could 
make out how you manage to keep yours 
so clean planted a foot apart in the row 
that way. I guess you must have to pull 
a lot of the weeds by hand, don’t you? 
Too much backache about that for a man 
of my age.” 
"You’ll have to give the weedor credit 
for that.” said the young grower modestly. 
“The only time I weed by hand is just 
before harvest to get out the big ones 
that have escaped notice. I just keep the 
cultivator aud weedor going so that the 
tiny sf-i-dliugs can’t get a start. When I 
came here there was a lot of quack, hut 
cutting it off with the disk harrow and 
raking it out with the weeder on a hot, 
sunny day I have got rid of most, of it.” 
“Do you go over your field with this 
weeder as your crop is sprouting'? 1 suit- 
pose you lay off for a while then.” 
“No, the secret of killing the weeds is 
to do it in the seedling stage. And the 
dust mulch formed by the cultivation 
helps to keep the moisture in. You see, 
the prongs on the weeder are quite flex¬ 
ible. They go around a sprout instead of 
breaking it. off. except, once in a while. 
T do find one broken off occasionally. Rut 
this cultivation is a fine stimulant to the 
ones that survive. I go both ways, length¬ 
wise and across. The horse always steps 
between the rows. It is simply doing a 
very little damage in order to do a great 
deal of good—if you get what I mean.” 
“It listens good.” admitted the man 
across the fence. “But there’s nothing in 
it for a man like me. Why I‘(l have to 
plant corn and set cabbage, and spray. 
I’ve got so many other things to think of 
at the same time that I usually forget 
my potatoes after they’re planted until 
the weeds are six inches high. And then 
if the seed was planted 12 inehes apart, 
bow’d I ever get ’em clean? No, I 
wouldn’t risk it. Anyhow, I read in the 
bulletin from the experiment station that 
plants set 3(5 inches apart grow more 
potatoes than those in the drills.” 
“It. always seems so wasteful." mur¬ 
mured the young man. “to pull out good 
manure and then let the weeds have part 
of it. Rut I guess you can afford it bet¬ 
ter than I could, with fertilizer where it 
is.” lie glanced down into his almost 
empty pail and looked ahead to see if he 
was going to have enough seed to finish. 
“There’s a friend of mine ip Franklin 
County.” said his neighbor. "Tie sows 
his fertilizer before he plows, and then 
turns it right under. Says it leads the 
feeder roots down where the drouth don’t 
hother ’em. Rut I’ve always wondered 
if the moisture isn’t really what draws 
’em down. That seems to me a little 
ahead of your way of putting fertilizer 
light close to the seed. You know then 
that there’s no danger of burning the 
sprout. lie is a lute-potato grower, and 
lie gets results." 
“He would." nodded the young early 
grower. “It's a good idea, and saves time 
putting fertilizer in the planter when time 
is worth money. That's a late crop 
method, though. It takes time for those 
feeder roots to grow down to the supply 
at the bottom of the furrow. If there is 
not a good supply of plant food close to 
where the rootlets start from the seed 
piece it will take them even longer. For 
the early crop it seems advisable to pm 
the fertilizer near the seed, and let the 
cover crop or barnyard manure, plowed 
under, take care of the later growth. The 
early crop depends on the Spring rains 
for moisture. Yon know there’s a saying. 
The 20th of April is a deadline that, 
only a millionaire can cross.’ Did you 
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