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SUPPLEMENT TO THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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the ground was kept perfectly level. No fer¬ 
tilizer was needed.” 
From a plot 50 feet square he harvested 20 
bushels, or at the rate of 348% bushels to the 
acre The vaiiety was White Elephant. 
THE 
A. A. Wkight, Upper Ottawa Valley, On¬ 
tario, Canada, says: “We do not expect in 
our high northern latitudes, where the grow¬ 
ing seasons are so short, to compete success¬ 
fully in raising potatoes with our more 
southern neighbors. However, with all our 
disadvantages, by careful management we 
do tolerably well. With reference to my own 
method of culture, my soil is a heavy claj ; at 
the time of purchase, four years ago, it was 
nearly exhausted and completely overrun 
with weeds. In order to loosen the soil I 
gave it, during the first. Winter, a very heavy 
coat of muck, just as much as I could possibly 
plow under iu the tspring, hauling it on 
sleighs a distance of three miles. During the 
next two seasons I gave it annually a heavy 
dressing of barnyard manure The following 
season 1 gave it a liberal supply of hard wood 
ashes, tinisbing up last Spring with a dressing 
of salt sown broadcast before plowing. The 
varieties 1 grow are chiefly Early Rose and 
Beauty of Hebron for early (L flud the Early 
Hose the better sort), Garnet L'biii ami White 
Elephant for late, and the Blush for interme¬ 
diate. 
I have only golden opinions of the Blush; 
last season they averaged form 16 to 24 good- 
sized potatoes in every bill: no other variety 
on my ground yielded as well, and none sur¬ 
passed this iu point of excellence, as it is odo 
of the best for table use; and although the 
tubers do not equal the White Elephant in 
size, they grow as large as is desirable The 
best selling potatoes are the regular s : zed 
ones, purchasers being afraid that the over¬ 
large ones may be hollow. 
In planting, the potatoes are cut into pieces 
of three eyes, and three pieces are placed in a 
hill, and the hills are three feet apart. No 
special fertilizer is used, as 1 know ot nothing 
better for this crop thuu barnyard manure, 
wood ashes und muck. This messing dots 
not work so well on light, sand}' soil, as it is 
of too dry and loosening a nature; but on 
heavy clay it has hardly at. equal, and no 
superior. Last season my planting was done 
on May 20, and the harvesting was all over 
about September 2U. My largest perfectly 
formed potato was a White Elephant, which 
weighed two pounds one ounce. In culti¬ 
vating, I use neither plow nor cultivator, 
only the hoe. I do not hill up as much as 
some, but am careful to have sufficient earth 
put about the potatoes to keep them from 
sun-burning. 1 am. however, particularly 
careful that the ground should be kept per¬ 
fectly clean and free from weeds. After the 
vines get too high to hoe and weeds appear 
above the stalks, the plot is gone through and 
the weeds carefully pulled. There are two 
reasons for the last weeding—one is to pre¬ 
vent any mjury the weeds might do to the 
growing crop, and also to prevent them from 
going to seed and polluting the entire plot 
with foul seed, to the detriment of next sea¬ 
son’s crop. This last season I covered por¬ 
tions of two of my plots with long manure 
just as the potatoes appeaerd above the ground, 
gave them no hoeing, but merely kept them 
well covercd. However, the result was that 
the output on the portions of the plots treated 
with the long tuunurc* was less than on any 
other pait of the field. In harvesting, the 
crop is dug with a six pronged manure fork, 
this being the safest and by far the most 
rapid way of securing the crop Digging in 
the old fashioned way, with the hce, is now 
almost enti.ely discontinued here. 
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have the Rural New-Yorker once is to 
want it always.” 
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says: “Let then out Rural pilot us to 
greatness in home and field.” 
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College, says; “The Rural New-Yorker 
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SO SAY THOUSANDS 
THE RURAL “RAISING. 
Of all people in the world farmers are 
the most friendly neighbois, and ready to 
assist each other, and much of the im¬ 
provement of the country is due lo the 
cooperative work of farmers at “bees,” 
“raisings,” etc. Many years ago, the 
houses of the people were mostly made of 
“logs”—the tiuuks of the abundant 
forest trees cut to proper lengths, and 
placed upon each other in proper form 
by the “people round about,” who came 
to the “raising” and made it the source of 
much social intercourse, and evin enjoy¬ 
ment. What was far bej oud the ability of 
the unaided individual to perform, was 
but play to the best of willing hearts and 
strong arms always ready to gather and 
lend a hand . t was always a source of 
OF THE GOOD 
Farmers, Horticulturists, Pom 
ologists and Stockmeu 
of America. 
Beauty off Hebron. Fig. 8, 
subscription while renewing his own, and 
the “job” is done. Do this for us, kind 
friends, and besides heartily and sin¬ 
cerely thanking you, we will try to make 
the Rckal better, and iu every way more 
worthy of your confidence, love, and sup¬ 
port than ever before. Will you trust 
and assist us! Will you come to the 
“Raising?” 
the additional room; but we know we 
cannot do this “job” alone, and to 
have decided to make an old-fashioned 
“raising,” and ask all our friends to take 
hold and “give us a lift.” The work 
that would be entirely too much for us 
alone, will, with such a host of friends 
as we have, and such willing friends as 
their kind letters lead us to believe them, 
Rural New-Yorker, 
34 PARK ROW. 
