potato fertilizer manufactured by Williams 
Clarke & Co. The land had received no ma¬ 
nure in many years. 
Trench 1.— Single eyes produced 187 tubers 
weighing 80% pounds, or at the rate of 851.48 
bushels to the acre. 
Trench 2.— Two single eyes produced 107 
tubers weighing' 41 1 pounds, or at the rate of 
478.20 bushels to the acre. 
Trench 8.— Half potatoes produced 222 tu¬ 
bers weighing 44% pounds, or at the rate of 
515.08 bushels per acre. 
Trench 4. — Whole potatoes produced 216 
tubers weighing 40% pounds, or at the rate of 
403.83 bushels to the acre. 
Trench 0.— Single-eye pieces produced 117 
tubers weighing 35% pounds, or at the rate of 
411.91 bushels per aere. 
Trench 0.— Two eyes to each piece pro¬ 
duced 144 tubers weighing 37% pounds, or at 
the rate of 429.22 bushels to the acre. 
Trench 7.— Three eyes to each piece pro¬ 
duced 198 tubers weighing 40% pounds, or at 
the rate of 469.55 bushels to the aero. 
Trench 8.— Whole potatoes yielded 199 tu¬ 
bers weighing 38 pounds, or at the rate of 
437.87 bushels to the acre 
Trench 9.— Potatoes cut in quarters with¬ 
out regard to number of eyes, produced 102 
tubers weighing 89% pounds, or at the rate of 
452.24 bushels to the acre. 
Trench 10.— Half potatoes yielded 228 tu¬ 
bers weighing 40% pounds, or at the rate of 
535.84 bushels to the aere. 
A DUPLICATE OE TRENCHES NOS 1, 2, 3 AND 4. 
Trench 11.— Single, eyes to each piece pro¬ 
duced 180 tubers weighing 33 jjounds, or at 
the rate of 380.23bushels to the acre. 
TRENCH 12.— Two eyes to each piece pro¬ 
duced 158 tubers weighing 30% pounds, or at 
the rate ot 417.70 bushels to the acre. 
Trench 18.— Half potatoes produced 209 
tubers weighing 40% pounds, or at the rate 
of 400.09 bushels to the acre. 
Trench 14.— Whole potatoes produced 
225 weighing 42% pounds, or at the rate 
of 489.72 bushels to tlie^icre. 
Let us study the above summaries a 
moment. The four trenches from single 
eyes give an average,omitting fractions, 
of 35 pounds, 130 tubers, to a trench. 
The three trenches from two eyes give f 
an average of 38 pounds, 155 tubers, (■ '. 
per trench. 
The three trenches from half potatoes .. 
give an average of 44 pouuds, 219 
tubers, per trench. 
The three trenches from whole pota- 41 
toes give an average of 40 pounds, 
213 tubers, to each trench. , M 
Or m tabular form: 
Pounds. Tubers- 
Single eyes, . 35, 180 
Two “ 8% 155 
Half potatoes,. 44. 219 
Whole “ 40. 213 
The half potato seed gave the largest 
yield of all aud the highest uumber of 
marketable potatoes. Iu proportion to 
the yield, either the one-eye or two-eye 
pieces gave a larger number of market¬ 
able potatoes than the whole seed, though 
the actual number from the whole seed was 
greater. 
It is to be regretted that we did not count 
the number of marketable potatoes from each 
trench. This important factor in this partic¬ 
ular experiment was unfortunately omitted. 
ESTIMATING THE COMPARATIVE YIELD BY 
RATINGS OK THE VINKS. 
For three .years past some time has been 
spent here in endeavoring to ascertain to what 
extent the size aud vigor of the vines, as rated 
early in ilie season, may be accepted as a guide 
by which to judge of the yield of potatoes. 
Ten is the highest rating. On June 27 the 
following ratings were made for the above 
trenches:— 
Trench. Rating. Trench. Hating. 
No. 1 . . 5 No. o .7 
half an acre of German millet for the benefi 
of his poultry. When the millet was ripe the 
Plymouth Rocks had access to the lot and 
feasted on the ripe seed. The millet was not 
cut, but the poultry were allowed to eat it 
down. Result, plenty of nice fresh eggs every 
day. 
The Potentate Potato, tested on the rich 
garden plots of the Rural New-Yorker in 
1884. where it produced at the rate of nearly 
700 bushels per acre, is an excellent variety. 
It is two weeks earlier than Early Rose, more 
prolific and equal to the Rose in quality, if 
not better. It is not, however, as good a 
keeper. It will ultimately take the place of 
Rose here for early planting. 
When to Set Strawberries and Rasp¬ 
berries,—I have never had as good success in 
setting strawberry plants in the fall as in the 
spring. Fall-set plants are more liable to 
heave out, especially if not properly mulched. 
They do not root sufficiently to resist the 
freezing and thawing in late winter and early 
spring. Raspberries with me do better set in 
the fall, and they should be heavily mulched 
with straw, corn-stalks or other coarse litter. 
The Mariana Plum is a remarkably strong, 
vigorous grower, and mukes a beautiful tree. 
It has not yet fruited with me, and lu-nce I 
cannot say anything as to the fruit. It would 
make a pretty tree in a vacant spot on the 
lawn. 
The Caddo Chief Plum is perhaps the 
earliest of all, ripening immediately after the 
strawberry and with the Early Richmond 
Cherry. It is about three-fourths of an inch 
in diameter, of good quality anil an enormous 
yielder. Jt blooms early and is very sensitive 
to coM, and on this account it is only now 
and then we get a full crop here. Late spring 
frosts are very fatal to it. It is an excellent 
keeper and should be picked when it begins to 
color aud shipped at once if the market is dis- 
."i>o'- -aN.. 
and palatable. These ears are better given in 
the busk, being more perfectly masticated 
and mixed with the coarser fiber. Southern 
farmers feed very little grain but corn, aud 
the exemption of the horses and mules from 
all injury by this corn-feeding is no doubt due 
to the basks in which the corn is given. 
The winter feeding should be made a matter 
for earnest consideration. A fodder cutter 
and a corn mill would be a profitable invest¬ 
ment upon any farm. The writer in feeding 
12 horses and six ox teams some vears saved 
one-third of the hay and grain, after the hay 
was cut and the grain ground. This is equal 
to the feeding of four horses and four oxen, 
which is more than the whole work stock of 
the majority of farms. Horses fed upon cut 
feed and ground grain are more healthy and 
thrive better than if fed whole feed, because 
the food is better digested aud more easily 
eaten and more copiously salivated. 
Brood mares in foal should be 
brau in their food every day, 
given some 
Crushed oats 
are excellent and Timothy or Orchard Grass- 
bay is preferable to clover. Colts should 
bo separated from their dams at once and 
weaned. A visit to the mares once a day un¬ 
til the milk is dried up will be advisable, but 
as soon as it can be done safely the colts 
should be weaned entirely. 
CATTLE. 
Cattle that are necessarily fed upon coarse 
food just now should be amply provided with 
salt. A small quantity of meal of some kind, 
but especially liuseed meal or cotton seed 
meal will be useful and a safeguard against 
the prevalent diseases of the season. Pastur¬ 
ing in swamp meadows will produce and ag¬ 
gravate the frequent foot ail caused by con¬ 
stant moisture and the presence of mud or 
sand between the claws. Cleanliness will pre¬ 
vent this evil. Sore feet should be treated 
promptly. An excellent remedy for sore feet 
and wounds in animals of all kinds is an oint¬ 
ment made in this way: melt together four 
ounces of lard; one ounce Burgundy pitch 
and one ounce Venice terpentine; stir in one 
ounce of spirits of turpentine two drams of 
acetate of copper. Stir until cold and keep in 
an earthen jar. Sore feet of eows,oxen or sheep 
should be washed aud dried and then dressed 
with this ointment daily. It is a good thing 
to ha vein the stable. Keep up the feed of 
milkiug cows. Shelter them at night. Cold 
uses up cream. Give salt regularly and a 
few ears of soft corn and a mangel or two 
twice a day. 
Yearliugs and calves should be sheltered at 
night. A month's growth is easily used .up by 
exposure to one cold storm. Every effort 
should be used now to prevent loss of condi¬ 
tion which is very difficult to restore during 
the wintei*. Keep on the lookout for vertniu. 
These are persistent enemies and come with¬ 
out warning, aud before one is aware a young 
animal may lie found swarming with them. 
Before winter sets in provide watering places 
for the young stock separately from the 
others, also a separate yard. It is possible 
that what is lost in young stock may be re¬ 
gained, but it is very uncertain and few farm¬ 
ers realize it. 
SHEEP, 
As soon as ewes are in lamb remove them 
from the flock. When they are all safely 
served the ram should be kept separately. A 
wether may be left with the flock as a te 9 t. 
Lambs should be kept by themselves. Corn is 
not a wholesome food for sheep and should be 
given sparingly. Good clover hay and some 
roots will Keep sheep in excellent store condi¬ 
tion. The small gain—if any—from regular 
grain feeding for a breeding flock will not 
pay for the food. It is a losing business. 
Regularity iu feeding is worth more to the 
flock than a good deal of grain given by “fits 
and starts.” Keep the sheep’s yard dry and 
provided with running water if possible; if 
not, give fresh water from a well twice a day. 
Sheep do well in a well littered floor without 
removing the manure all the winter. All the 
manure is saved and the constant trampling 
keeps it from heating aud fermenting. Forty 
or 50 sheep will make a large quantity of man¬ 
ure iu this way and clover hay aud bran 
cannot lie turned into plant food in any 
cheaper or easier way. Carefully avoid close 
stables for sheep. Pure air is indispensable, 
never mind the cold; sheep rather like zero 
weather with a good dry bed of straw and full 
bellies. 
SWINE. 
A pound of food given now to fattening 
swine is worth two pounds next month. Fill 
up the hogs now and they will eat less and 
make more fat on their food in two weeks. 
Not much water should be given. Drink is 
mot o useful in the form of thin slop of scalded 
bran and oatmeal. Crushed oats steeped iu 
boiling water and fed cool, not cold, makes 
the tiuest meat aud fattens quickest. Cleanli¬ 
ness is indispensable to health aud health to 
wholesome pork. A clean pen aud warm, dry 
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EARLY PURITAN POTATO. From Nature. Fig. 449 
Burnt (Tomes 
taut. If the market is near the fruit should 
be placed iu shallow trays and set in a cool 
place in the shade to ripen, when they may be 
assorted and put on the market. The tree is 
very full of thorns which make it objection¬ 
able to some extent 
Fall Preparation for Spring Orchard 
Planting. —Those who expect to put out or¬ 
chards in the spring should prepare the laud 
this fall. It is not always that such work eau 
be done iu the spring early enough to set trees. 
Heavy rains, snows aud freezes in late winter 
and early spring prevent the preparation of 
the soil. The preparation can, however, lie 
done in the fall very effectually and properly 
and will be ready to receive the trees when 
the time arrives for setting them, rustic. 
Princeton, Ky. 
A FEW REFLECTIONS. 
Kind of Improved Corx-Cultivatior 
Needed. —If some manufacturer of agricul¬ 
tural implements will get up a good coru cul¬ 
tivator, having from seven to nine teeth not 
over two inches wide, and which cau be regu¬ 
lated quickly aud perfectly as to depth, aud 
not to retail for more than five dollars, and 
then advertise it, he will find ready sale for 
it next spring. 
Many of the cultivators uow iu use are good 
implements to use in the early stage of the 
corn’s growth; but at a later stage they go 
too deep, and thereby injure the com. The 
riding or sulky cultivators are too costly; 
the majority of our farmers are not able to 
buy them. We need a cultivator with which 
we can stir the soil to the depth of five inches 
or one iuch if we choose. Seven narrow 
teeth uro better than live broad ones, aud 
nine teeth still not quite so wide are better 
than the seven. If the teeth are uarrow, bet¬ 
ter work can be done, aud the draft is not so 
heavy. 1 have never been able to regulate 
the depth of any cultivator I have used, to 
my satisfaction. The adjustment of the clevis 
iu the buck head, the wheel in front, or the 
harness docs not produce the desired effect. 
In this manner we may raise the front teeth, 
but those iu the rear will go still deeper, uu- 
less the plowman chooses to elevate the han¬ 
dles, nud holds them in the proper position. 
The modern plowman, however, feels himself 
under no obligation to do anything of the 
kind The proj>er implement to cultivate com 
is yet to be made; or, at any rate, it has never 
been introduced in this section of country. 
Millet for Poultry.—M y little son sowed 
(Ilje ijurDsnuiu 
TWO new potatoes soon to be introduced. 
Early Puritan, received from Peter Hen¬ 
derson & Co., of New York, with the request 
that wo would favor the firm with our report. 
Four pieces of two or three eyes eaeh were 
planted April 15 iu the rich garden soil plot 
with which our older readers are very famil¬ 
iar. It is now supplied with every sort of 
plant food, both mineral and animal, iu abun¬ 
dance. The trenches (18 inches wide and four 
inches deep) are precisely three feet apart and 
the pieces are dropped under the knots ol a 
cord stretched over the trenches one foot 
apart. Thus we have 14,52U seed pieces te the 
acre.” But two pieces sprouted aud the yield 
was 8% pounds (4% pounds to the hill) which 
Would bo at the rate^of 998,21 bushels to the 
LIVE STOCK NOTES FOR NOVEMBER 
Horses should not be exposed at nights iu 
open fields at this late seasou. Frozen her¬ 
bage is injurious to any animal, but exceed¬ 
ingly so to horses, whose stomachs and diges¬ 
tive functions differ but little from those of 
niankiud. The pickings of the corn fields 
may be loft for sheep aud mules, but are not 
fit for any less barely animals. Soft corn is 
much relished by horses, aud especially by old 
ones whose teeth are worn and weak, and the 
sugar in the immature corn is both nutritious 
