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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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23 Niagara seedlings. The Garden Treasures 
were nice. The Beauty of Hebron is the best 
early potato I ever saw, and the White Ele¬ 
phant the best late one. E. w. M. 
Naples, Ontario Co.—I planted 12 eyes of 
Rural Blush Potato, which yielded a heaping 
half bushel. One objection to them, however, 
is that the eyes are too deep to permit them to 
be a very profitable cooking potato; otherwise 
they are a first-class potato, and no mistake. 
SCAB IN POTATOES 
[From American Garden—Dr. F. M. Hexamer, Edltor-January, 1884.] 
SCAB IN POTATOES. 
Homer, Cortland Co.—From one ounce of 
Blush Potato I raised 44 pounds of medium¬ 
sized tubers, quite rough-skinned, very large; 
the vines proved very late with me. The corn 
was nicely silked out when frost came. Of 
grape-vines I have 10. I raised 100 bushels of 
White Elephants this year. j. c. c. 
Nova Scotia. 
Weymouth Bridge, Digby Co.—From my 
Blush Potato weighing two ounces I raised 
15 pounds. It was planted in a piece of dry, 
turfy laud, alongside of 21) other varieties. 
During six weeks of dry, hot weather, I no¬ 
ticed the tops of the Blush kept green the 
longest, but I did not get a satisfactory yield 
from any of the varieties in that field Out 
of 35 varieties of potatoes the White Elephant 
and Grange yielded the best. The former is 
rather too dry with me. It is almost impos¬ 
sible to boil the tubers without their goiug to 
pieces. Of the B-b Centennial Wheat, planted 
April 15, only a few grains germinated; 
ripened October 1; straw grew five feet high, 
heads very large, grains shrunken. Not 
suited to this climate. Sboe-peg Corn grew 
10 feet high, lint wa# killed by frost October 
15; ears just forming. I have 13 seedling 
grapes. The hollyh ocks bloomed last Sum¬ 
mer; had three different colors—white, salmon 
and garnet. The two first were splendid 
double flowers, the last only semi-double. 
My Blush Potatoes are of a much darker color 
than the seed sent; they are of a uniform dark 
flesh color, resembling the Early Rose in this 
respect. w. h. s. d. 
Ohio. 
Wilmington, Clinton Co.—Of my 53 
grains of Shoe-peg Com 50 germinated and 
yielded 65 ears, all good enough for seed. A 
bushel of hen manure had been mixed with 
the soil. Watermelons a failure. The flowers 
and wheat will be reported next year. Can’t 
do without the Rural. j. s. r. 
Pennsylvania. 
Shekleyville., Mercer Co.—My Blush 
Potato weighing lLj ounce, was cut in nine 
pieces, and planted one piece in a hill. I dug 
32 pounds of nice tubers. The grapes did 
well, over two-thirds are growing nicely. 
The Shoe-peg Corn made a wonderful growth 
of stalk, but was taken by the frost. The 
bugs ate the melon vines. Here is a statement 
about the Washington Oats clipped from our 
local paper, the Mercer Dispatch: “In the 
Spring of 1881 T. C. Cochran, of Sandy Creek 
township, got through the Rural New- 
Yorker one ounce of White Washington 
Oats which yielded him 21 pounds that season. 
The next Spring he sowed these oats in an 
orchard, and although the ground was badly 
shaded, yet the 21 pounds of seed produced 18 
bushels. This Spring he sowed 10 bushels of 
these oats on 6^' acres of ground ami thrashed 
therefrom 301 bushels, being 00 bushels— 
32 pounds per bushel—per acre. These oats 
weigh 40 pounds per bushel stroked meas¬ 
ure, stand up well, ripen early, and, alto¬ 
gether, Mr. Cochran considers the White 
Washington a very desirable variety of oats.” 
T. C. C. 
Virginia. 
Elk Garden, Russell Co.—Nine hills of 
Blush Potatoes yielded 84 tubers—35 pounds. 
Best four weighed 5j^' pounds. White Ele¬ 
phant. Potato, a special favorite; quality first- 
rate. Have three nice plots of wheat from 
the three varieties sent in 1882—Surprise, 
Shumaker and Fnltzo-Clawsou. The Heavy 
Dent or Shoe-peg Corn does uot equal what I 
have been raising so 1 cannot make much fuss 
over that. 1 have four Niagara Grape-vines 
from the seed sent. Almost all the seeds have 
done well for us. s. p. f. 
Wisconsin. 
Perley, Barron Co.—Of the Niagara Grape 
seeds 32 vegetated and grew finely, but were 
killed down to the ground by the first frost 
last Fall. The two Blush Potatoes were cut 
into 13 pieces, one eye to a piece, and plauted 
one foot apurt in the row. Yield, 78 tubers, 
22 pounds. Some of the tubers were very 
small, others very large. Five of the hills 
were killed to thegrouud by frost last Spring. 
No extra culture and poor soil. Not a fair 
test. The Shoe-peg Corn was too late for tills 
climate. Melous failed owing to frost; wheat 
we did nothing with. Garden Treasures were 
double. Sunflowers, mignonette, phlox, and 
a trailing plant with flowers like a single sun¬ 
flower, only not as large as a three cent piece» 
undgoinphrena. a. j. r. 
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