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NOV 47 
THE RURAL (NEW-YORKER. 
RURAL SEED REPORTS. 
So great. Ims been the Dumber of the reports 
received by us concerning the seeds in our lust 
Five Distribut ion, that we cannot spare room 
for the full text of all. In addition to those 
already published, we give the gist of many 
others greatly condensed in the following 
reports : 
Canada. 
Calton, Elgin Co.—My Blush Potato had 
eight eyes, which 1 planted in four hills, in a 
clay soil; yield, 4(1 potatoes, weighing 10 
pounds. The Shoe-peg Corn 1 have cut and 
put in the burn to ripen. From the RURAL 
Garden Treasures we had n nice lot of flowers, 
though they did not come to perfection as 
they would have done had the weather been 
warmer. The Perfection Water melon seeds 
came up nicely, but the cold, wet weather 
soon finished them. The wheat 1 sowed this 
Fall aud it is up nicely. We had three Niugurn 
Grape-vines growing but they were small. 
The frost killed the tops, and whether the 
roots will survive or not I do not know. 
W. H. C. 
Illinois. 
Dwight, I.lviugston Co.—Eleven plants 
grew from the grain; seeds, The Blush Potato 
yielded me 48 pounds of line potatoes, one of 
which weighed one-and-one-half pound; 20 
would average three-fourths of a pound. The 
Shoe-peg Corn escaped the frost, and willgive 
me a good many ears for seed. s. p. u. 
MuHknky, McHenry Co. -Planted in sandy 
loam 18 pieces of Blush Potato, one eye to a 
piece. No manure was used, lloed several 
times; earth drawn to plants a little. The 
largest tuber wasuine inches Ion gaud weighed 
two pounds. The 42 lnrgest weighed 42 
pounds; next 20 weighed it) pounds; next 78 
weighed 10 pounds. The total erop of 804 
potatoes weighed 71 pounds. s. u. u. 
Rio, Knox Co. My Blush Potato weighed 
four ounces. Planted in 15 hills, one-half ail 
eye to some hills. Tin* largest potato weighed 
one-and tliree-fourths pound; the two largest 
throe pounds; 4<> largest 27k£ pounds, and the 
UK) largest, 41 hj pounds. The Shoe-peg Corn 
was badly mixed, but ripened fairly, with 
good yield. J. L. B. 
Trkmont, Tazewell Co. —l planted the two 
small Blush Potatoes May 1st, cut to single 
eyes, in a drill 18 feet long, In prairie soil, 
three years from sod;cultivated that with hoe. 
1 dug on October 11th 66 jxnmdH, allot - good 
size, many weighing over one pound. 
L, P. W. 
West Jkrhky, Stark Jo, Oct 21 —From 
my Blush Potato I raised 51 pounds of nice, 
Jarge tubers, on good gurdcu soil, but used no 
fertilizer. The Shoe-peg Corn was all token 
by the Blue .Jays, I have 24 little Niagara 
Grape-vines, some over two feet long. 
h. e. m’c. 
Indiana. 
Deming, Hamilton Co., Oct» 20.—The Blush 
Potato weighed two ounces aud contained seven 
eyes that could be separated. Planted 
May 2 in seven hills, in clay-loam soil; culture 
nearly level; dug August, 27; yield 17% pounds. 
Quality good;scattered badly in the hill, ^hoe- 
peg Corn pluuced May 2, matured well; yield 
moderate. Wheat a failure. T. k. b. 
Iowa. 
New Haven, Mitchell Co.— My Blush Potato 
weighed nearly two ounces, and was cut to 
one eye in a piece, making seven pieces. 
These were plante l on May 18, and on Sep¬ 
tember 15 I dug58 tubers, weighing 24 pounds, 
all good-sized except eight. The largest 
weighed one pound two ounces. 1 would not 
take the price of the Rubai, Due year for 
them. The Shoe peg Corn did not ripen on 
account of early frost. w. E. b. 
New London, Ileury Co. The Shoe-peg 
Corn does not do well here: too late. Re¬ 
ceived t.wo small Blush Potatoes in May, which 
had nine eyes, and so made us many hills. 
.No extra fert ili/er. Dug 28 pounds, mostly of 
good size. All but Hreof the grape-vines were 
destroyed by a ground mole The Black 
bearded Centennial Wheat grew and spread 
well, but did not head. The other wheats 
were winter-killed. 1 hod a fine crop of White 
Elephant Potatoes. Some of the flower seeds 
did well. ji;. yj. 
Tipton, Cedar Co.—Sprouted my Blush 
Potato m (lie house. Transplanted 17 sprouts, 
w hich produced 100 pounds. A second lot, of 
sets produced 110 pounds, or u sum total of 
210 pounds. The largest one weighed two 
pounds; next two largest, three pounds; next 
eight largest, 10 pounds. The different kinds 
of wheat failed to head. Only two grape- 
seeds grew. The Shoe-peg Corn is rather 
late. K . a. 
Kansas, 
CLYDE. Cloud Co,—Planted my Blush Pu 
tato April 2. (Jut it in eight pieces, one eye 
to a piece, of which six grew. Dug October 
22, aud had two heaping half bushels. One 
potato weighed one-audthroo-fourth pound, 
and measured 11 inches long on one side. The 
largest five weighed a little over six pounds. 
Wheat was a failure. The Shoe-peg Corn 
was fair: watermelons splendid, aud ripened 
before all the others. The grapes were a 
total failure. A. G. M. 
Plum Grove, Butler Co.—When the Hi ral 
offered to send out the Blush Potato saying 
that it, was drought-resisting and a medium 
late variety, I said that it was the potato for 
Kansas if if is drought-resisting; for we can 
raise good crops of auy of the early sorts, but 
it is difficult to get a good crop of late. So I 
sent for it. and could not have had a much 
I letter season lor testing ito drought-resisting 
qualities. I received one Blush Potato weigh¬ 
ing 1 1 j ouueo the first week in May; cut it 
in halves and put it, in a hot lied to sprout. 
About June first 1 took off 18 sprouts, and two 
weeks later four more, and transplanted to 
upland prairie soil that, had received a dress¬ 
ing of manure token from an old abandoned 
cow-pen that had been leached by the raius 
for the past, four years. It added but little 
to the fertility of the soil, hut served to keep 
the grouud loose. Cultivation, one plowing 
and several lmeiugs;yield25 pounds IDounces; 
weight of nine largest live pounds two ounces; 
total number of potatoes 115. II' the potato 
had been received and planted at the usual 
time of planting potatoes lit*re, viz., April 1, 
1 think the yield would have been greater. 
From the 15th of .June until the 20th of .Mil}’ 
we lmd no rain, and whilst vegatotiou was 
badly parched up and the vines of my Late 
Snowflake and Mammoth Pearl Potatoes died, 
the vines of the Blush kept green, although 
the drought checked their growth, but when 
the raius came they renewed their growth, 
putting out new leaves blooming again, and 
settiug ou another crop of potatoes, and ripen¬ 
ing September 95. From my test I think it 
is well at} led drought-resisting. I huve one 
fault to find with it—its lack of smoothness. 
It is too nobby, or, as my little boy expressed 
it, there are too many men with caps on then- 
heads. Of the nine largest only one was 
smooth, the others having an enlargement of 
the stem end. t. j p, 
IIIIcIiIkiui 
Clinton, Lenawee Co.—Cut the Blush Po¬ 
tato, weighing oue-and-one half ounce, into 
nine pieces, of one eye to a piece. Planted in a 
box In the house the last, of April, and trans¬ 
planted to garden the last of May, in bills 
t.w< and-one-half feet apart. Dug Sept, 15tli 
142 large aud small potatoes, 120 of which were 
marketable. They weighed 26% pounds. They 
yielded 141-fold. Is not this the liest yield re¬ 
ported ? D. R. G. 
Montague, Muskegon Co. My Blush Po¬ 
tato produced 20 pounds. The Shoe-peg Com 
was killed by frost, as was all the corn in these 
parts. The Black-bearded Centennial Wheat 
was a failure. 1 have 20 splendid grape-vines 
from the Rural seeds. k. a, h. 
Thornvillk, Lajieer Co.—The Rural 
Blush Potato was cut to single eyes, and 
planted, one piece in a lull, on May 20, on 
laud of ordinary fertility, without manure or 
other fertilizers. Six sto.ks grew, were hoed 
twice and picked clean of bugs; no Pnris- 
green was used. Dug on Sept, 28; yield in all 
02 potatoes, 40 of which were of good size; 
total weight of crop 17 pounds; lx*st five two- 
und-oiio-lmlf pounds; best one 18 ounces; 
weight of seed planted one ounce Table 
qualities not yet tested. The tubers do not 
grow so compactly as those of the White Ele¬ 
phant, neither is it so early, the stalks being 
green when pulled. SUBSCRIBER. 
Minnesota. 
St. CLOUD, Stearns Co. My Blush Potato 
had nine eyes, and by dividing two of them 
and using two sprouts that had started at the 
time of planting 1 had 18 sets which were 
pluuted on May 81. On October 10 I dug 112 
pounds of line potatoes, the largest weighing 
Iii'ii jin mills hm on iirrs. No small ones. 
Splendid table potatoes, but they run too 
much over the ground. They are very pro¬ 
lific, but late. My wife has eight Niagara 
vines. Wysor’s Corn seems to require about 
14 months to mature. Flowers very line; 
many cut down by the curly frost. j. i k. 
Stockton, Winona Co.- My Blush Potato 
was injured by frost before it was planted. 
Four eyes came up and produced 52 potatoes, 
from medium to small in size. The Niagara 
Grape seeds produced Iff vines, which grew 
from h to ID inches high, when the frost ol' 
SeptemIicr D struck Ihem. h, u. R. 
Nelirunliii. 
Haykktown, Sherman Co. The little Blush 
Potato was cut in nine pieces, planted in seven 
hills, 18 Inches apart, in the garden; soil.sandy. 
Hoed them three times; never saw- such potato 
vines grow; vines kept green and growing 
until frost, killed them about October loth. 
Dug October 18th Hit) potatoes 102 mar 
ketnble aud seven smull oues; the hugest 
weighed one pound l<))$ ounces; weight 
of all, 00 pounds 4 ounces. The Shoe-peg Corn 
grew finely, but it is too Into here. The Per¬ 
fection Watermelon w as good in shape aud 
size, but not crisp enough to suit my taste; 
will try it again next year. The B-b. Wheat 
came up well, headed nicely, but was all de¬ 
stroyed by rust before the grains were formed. 
K. S. 
New York. 
Dalton, Livingston Co.—My little Rural 
Blush Potato had nine eyes, and was planted 
in nine hills. Dug Sept. 20. Produced 42 
pounds of splendid potatoes. Average per 
single eye, 74 2-8 ounces. Number of tubers, 
188. Average weight, li ve-und-one-fourth 
ounces. Five largest 00 ounces. Weight of 
largest one, 27 ounces. Weight of seed, two 
ounces. Soil, sandy loam. Fertilizer, stable 
manure only. This is the largest, yield 1 have 
seen mentioned. 1 read of a yield of 45 pounds 
from twelve hills in the Rural of Sept. 20, 
but you see mine lmats that a little. J. s. H. 
Groton City, Tompkins Co.—Planted the 
Blush Potato May 2 in nine hills, Dug Sept. 
10, 78 potatoes, four of which were rotten. 
The good ones weighed 15 pounds. 1 have 12 
plants from the grape seeds. One package of 
wheat sowed in the Spring did not head out. 
The bugs beat me on the watermelons. The 
Garden Treasures did finely. G. A, h. 
Manilla, Erie Co.— 1 received three Blush 
Potatoes, whose combined weight was two 
ounces, i planted in May 11 hills, one eye to 
a hill. Sept. 22 1 dug 87 potatoes; 80 were 
large enough for market. All weighed 14 
pounds and two ounces. The six largest 
weighed four pounds The melon seeds did 
not come up. The Shoe-peg Corn looked well 
until the first frost came: it stood 12 feet high. 
The wheat stooled well until 12 inches high, 
when it rusted. L. H. 
Perry, Wyoming Co., Nov. 1 — Of the Blush 
Potatoes 22 hills yielded 285 tubers: 1(5 too 
small for table use; 21 large ami line. 
F. H. K. 
Porterville, Erie Co. My small Rural 
Blush Potato was cut in seven pieces, one eye 
in a piece, and planted in the garden May 28. 
Made seven hills, I dug the product of that 
little potato Sept. 12, and there were 40pounds 
of as nice potatoes as l ever saw. This is the 
largest yield 1 have seen mentioned. My 
Shoe-peg Corn did not amount to anything; 
the frost of Sept. 10 cut it for me. Corn poor, 
not half of a crop. Oats yield 80 to 40 bushels 
per acre. Barley alsnit 20 bushels per acre. 
A L. B. 
Purdy Creek, Steuben Co.— My Blush Po¬ 
tatoes weighed seven ounces, ami were plant 
ed in 88 hills on May 2(5, and I dug on Sept. 
10, 1(K) pounds of sound potatoes, besides some 
rotten ones. I should have had more if it had 
not lieen that 1 planted 19 hills of them along¬ 
side of corn that sliudrd them, and these yield 
ed only about half as much as the others. The 
only fault 1 find with them is that they spread 
too much in the hill. My Shoe-peg Corn did 
not get ripe, I have seven nice Niagara Grape 
vine lets. J. v. 
RUHhvillk, Yates Co.—I planted one Blush 
Potato May 1. It was cut in 12 pieces, one eye 
to the piece, ami planted 20 inches apart in 
the row. Fertilized with barnyard manure 
and Lister Brothers’ Dissolved Bone at plant¬ 
ing: cultivated and hoed twice. Dug Sept. 
2 Whole number of tubers 120; 80 of mar¬ 
ketable size; 84 pounds small ones; total 
weight, 04)^ pounds; weight of three largest, 
101 . ounces; average for single eye, 5% ounces; 
average per tuber, 8k, ounces. Shoe-peg 
Corn still growing. Highly pleased with 
Garden Treasures, K. B. V. 
Southwest Oswego, Oswego Co.— The 
grape-vines did not do well; 1 have but four. 
The watermelons did not come up. The Stioc- 
lieg Corn is a failure. The Blush Potatoes are 
very good, but. the eyes are so deep B makes 
them very rough. w. H, J. 
Spknceri’out, Monroe Co.- My Blush Potato 
weighed four ounces, aud was cut into 18 
pieces, one eye to each piece. Planted May 
15. Soil sandy loam. For fertilizer used u 
small handful of uuleuched ashes ami of phos¬ 
phate to ea -li hill. Received ordinary garden 
culture, billed up. Dug Sept Yield 181 large 
and 52 small tubets. Total, 182; weight of all 
55 pounds. The largest one weighed one 
pound live ounces; the 10 largest weighed 
eight pounds eleven ounces. Due hill yielded 
lit potatoes, weighing four pounds twelve 
ounces. My 11-yeurold boy planted ami took 
cure of the crop, and it is worth inauy times 
the pi co of the paper to have him really inte¬ 
rested in gardening, us has resulted from the 
Rural’s presents of seeds of various kinds. 
W. Cl. M., JR. 
Ohio. 
Alliance, Stark Co. The Blush Potato, 
planted April 28 , lmvested September 22 ; 
urobuble w eight ol sc d potato four ounces; 
insult, 27 large and three smull oues. Weight 
of four largest, two pounds two ounces; next 
largest four, one pound eight ounces; bal¬ 
ance, four pounds 10 ounces; total, eight 
pounds four ounces. Planted in sandy soil 
(level ground), enriched with sheep-stable 
manure. Quality pronounced equal in flavor 
and dryness to the ‘-Magnum Bomirn.” 
G, Q. F. 
Coe Ridge. Cuyahoga Co.—Dug 168 pounds 
of Blush Potatoes from three planted w eigh¬ 
ing four ami one-half ounces. Oue tuber 
weighed 17 ounces. The wheat winter- 
killed. The Shoe peg Corn is looking well but 
is late. The Hollyhocks were very fine. I 
raised one Catalpa speeiosa. A. J. c. 
Oregon. 
Altiiousk, Josephine Co.—Planted on 
March 14, 298 grains of Black-bearded Cen¬ 
tennial Wheat, weighing 225 grains, Troy, in 
a plot 10x11 feet. Season dry and water gave 
out. Harvested wheat Aug, 27. and had 690 
ears, yielding five-aml-one-luilf pounds, 58 of 
the largest and longest heads contained no 
grain. The Blush Potato weighing one-and- 
one-half ounce was planted April 28; cut in 
10 pieces. Soil red clay-loam. Manure leaf 
mold. Dug August 20. Yield, 40 potatoes, 
weight eight pounds. Shoe-peg Corn does 
not ripen here. The Niagara Grape seed did 
not appear. Flower seeds did well. L. s. n. 
Oakland, Douglas Co.— The Slice-peg 
Corn is n little late here, but will mature. 
The Black bearded Wheat is a trump. I 
planted mine and raised two gallons of the 
largest grained ami nicest wheat l ever saw; 
would not take ten dollars for it. The melons 
did very well for the season; for there has 
not been any rain here since the 15th of May. 
'I here is a very fair crop of wheat; oats are 
light. It was a very hard Winter ou 
wheat. The Fultzo-Clawson all froze out, 
but one kernel. 1 worked aud watered it 
with manure water, and have now one pint 
of nice wheat. There were 60 good heads, 
aud 10 small oues. The Surprise Wheat stood 
tiie Winter well; out of 15 kernels I got three 
quarts of nice wheat. J. t. j. 
Washington Territory, 
Fkrndale, Whatcom Co.—Cut two Blush 
Potatoes to 16 eyes. Planted in drill; fer¬ 
tilized with cow ami hen manure. Dug Octo¬ 
ber 15. Yield, 78% pounds medium-sized 
potatoes. I .u rgest potato weighed two pounds; 
largest hill weighed 8% pounds. Had no rain 
here from June 5 to September 7, Eight of 
the lulls that were occasionally watered by 
disband wash water upon them yielded60out 
of the 78% pounds Centennial Wheat planted 
too lute. n. R. 
Wisconsin. 
Lake Geneva, Walworth Co.—Dug yester¬ 
day 25 pounds of Blush Potatoes, which ferew 
from 15eyes planted in five hills. Several pula- 
tot's weighed over one-and-one-half pound. 
They are line for the table. The corn was a 
failure. It is large aud coarse, and very late. 
Was ruined September 10 by frost. n. k, 
Medford, Taylor Co.—Dug my Blush Po¬ 
tatoes on September 12, aud hud 12 pounds of 
tubei’s. The chickens destroyed oue hill, or I 
think I should have had about 15 jxninds. It 
was too cold for melons, and they did not 
amount to anything. r. m. 
Princeton, Green Luke Co. My Bins!) 
Potato, weighing one ounce and a-linlf, was 
cut into niue piecos containing one eye each, 
which were planted two feet apart; soil, sandy 
loam. I dug, October 1st. 116 medium tubers, 
weighing Hi pounds, and 85 small tubers w eigh¬ 
ing one pound aud 10 ounces equal to 444 to 
one. Shoe-peg Coru was planted May 10, four 
feet apart, twograins in a bill. Soil same as for 
potatoes; yield from one to sixstulks in a hill 
eight to 10 feet high. From 28 hills, contain¬ 
ing 80 stalks, producing 40 cars, I gathered 
10 ears on October 1st. RURAL wheat sowed 
as Spring wheat—a failure. j. M. s. 
Sheboygan Falls, Sheboygan Co.—Plant 
ed in pans, March 20, 17 eyes of Blush Pota¬ 
toes. Transplanted in field May 20. Forty- 
eight hills dug gave me 818 potatoes, 125 of the 
larger ones averaging nine ounces each. The 
season was very dry. Coru is nearly a total 
failure in this section, owing to a Into Spring 
and early frosts, A d. n. 
Woodman, Grant Co. The Rural Blush 
Potatoes were planted April 27. aud had live 
small potatoes, containing 28 eyes. Used every 
eye, although the pieces were very small. 
Dug September 28. The whole weighed 58 
pounds; three puroatit. were small. Planted 
in rows three-und u half feet, apart; set 16 
inches apart.in the rows. 1 planted nine other 
kinds, all cultivated the same, which was fiat ; 
twice plowed, twice hoed. Soil black loam. 
As compared with the rest. Mammoth Pearl, 
ID hills, yielded 85 pounds; White Elephant, 
10 lulls, 85 pounds; Late Rose, 27 pounds; 
Magnum Bonum,21 pounds; Early Mayflower 
>10 pounds; Clark’s No. I, 81 poumis; White 
Star, 22 pounds; Improved Peachblow, 15 
pounds; Rural Blush, 28 pounds; Burbank 
Seedling. 21 pounds. All were lull}’ ripe ex - 
cept Peachblow; Blush nearly so. u. a. 
