VOL. XLVII. NO. 2027. 
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 1, 1888. 
PRICE FIVE CENTS. 
*2.00 PER YEAR. 
[Entered According to Act of Congress,'In the Year 18S8, by the Rural New-Yorker, In the Offlcelof the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.] 
The Wole’s National 
Potato Contest. 
Somethini to be Thankful For. 
A HEAL SUCCESS. 
A RARE SUCCESS. 
Womanly Women Heartily Indorse the 
Good Project. 
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The Indorsem .i t o f~ t ctc.dTeople 
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of th'6'Country. 
Over $500 in Souvenirs Con¬ 
tributed up to Date. 
The ninth page (800) of this issue will fully 
explain the Rural’s project of inducing our 
female readers to enter into competitive trials 
for raising large crops of potatoes on plots 
one-fortieth of an acre or more in extent, 
they may be of any shape or of any size only 
so that they be not less than one-fortieth of 
an acre. A plot 33 feet square would be one- 
fortieth of an acre. The larger the plot, the 
more credit should, be- given to the greatest 
yield produced at'the J^Jkt cost. The design 
is to offer so many rewards that all who suc¬ 
ceed in producing creditable yields, will be 
entitled to one or the other of the presents so 
offered. Ihe following is the list of contribu¬ 
tions, named in the order of their receipt, up 
to this date : 
Rural New-Worker, $100 in cash or 
souvenirs as the committee may prefer. 
W. Atlee Burpee (Philadelphia, Pa.), $25 
worth of vegetable and flower seeds selected 
from their 1889 catalogue, in five premiums of 
$5 each. 
Thorburn & Co., (New York) $25 worth of 
seeds (flower or vegetable) from their catalogue 
for 1889, This may be offered as one or sev¬ 
eral prizes. 
Chadborn & Coldwell M’f’g. Co , (New¬ 
burgh, N. Y.) One 14 inch New Model Lawn- 
Mower. 
Paine, Diehl & Co., (Philadelphia, Pa.) 
One 7>£-pint Self-pouring Quadruple, Silver- 
plate Tea-pot, listed at $16.50. 
The White Mountain Freezer Co. One 
four-quart White Mountain Freezer. 
Bartlett & Dow, (Lowell, Mass.) One 
Common-Sense Milk Pail. 
Brainerd & Armstrong Co. (Philadelphia, 
Pa.) Six boxes Assorted Colors Embroidery 
Silk, put up one ounce in a box. 
Frank Siddall, (Philadelphia, Pa.) One 
box of Frank Siddall’s Soap, freight paid. 
Peter Henderson & Co. (New York.) 
$25 collection of plants or a $25 collection of 
seeds to be selected from their 1889 catalogue. 
R. & J. Farquhar & Co. (Boston, Mass.) 
$5 worth of seeds (including the newest varie¬ 
ties of sweet-peas,asters, stocks, diantbus, etc.) 
to be selected from their 1889 catalogue. 
Woodason Bellows Works, (Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa.) $30 in powder and spraying bel¬ 
lows, viz., two patent double-cone bellows, ex¬ 
tra size; two patent double-cone bellows, reg¬ 
ular size; three single-cone bellows, large size; 
three single cone bellows, regular size, two 
spraying bellows, regular size. 
D. Landreth & Sons, Philadelphia, Pa. 
—$10 worth of seeds from their 1889 cata¬ 
logue. 
J. C. Vaughan, Chicago, Ills., $10 collec¬ 
tion of flowering bulbs selected from their 
catalogue for 1889. 
Benjamin Hammond, Fishkill, N. Y., $12. 
as follows; Two kegs of Hammond’s Slug 
Shot, 125 pounds each. Two packages of 
Grape Dust, 10 pounds each. 
S. H. Parvin’s Sons, Cincinnati, O., Six 
of Moody’s Taylor System of Dressmaking, 
Price of each $5.00. 
P. J. Berckmans, President of the Ameri¬ 
can Pomological Society, $10. 
T. H. Hoskins, M. D., Newport, Vermont, 
$10 in iron-clad apple trees (his selection) in 
threo premiums. 
Toledo Blade, Toledo, O., $5. in five year¬ 
ly subscriptions. 
Prof. J. L. Budd, Iowa State Agricultural 
College, $50 in 100 trees of valuable new ap¬ 
ples, pears, cherries, plums, apricots and or¬ 
namental trees and shrubs suited to the spec¬ 
ial climate of the prize-takers. 
H. M. Engle & Son, Marietta, Pa., $20 as 
follows: five Paragon chestnuts trees; five 
“Good” peach trees, 50 peach trees, assorted 
leading varieties. 
W. W. Rawson & Co., Boston, Mass., $10 
worth of vegetable or flower seeds to be select¬ 
ed from their 1889 catalogue. 
Prof. C. V. Riley, U. S. Entomologist, 
$5 in cash. 
Mrs. E. E. Stine, Cuyahoga Falls, N. Y., 
$5. as an extra souvenir to the lady who raises 
the largest crop by her own personal cultiva¬ 
tion, hoeing and all necessary work. 
O. P. Putnam, Leominster, Mass., $5 in one 
pair of thoroughbred Barred Plymouth Rock 
chicks. 
Mrs. O. J Putnam, $1. in one dozen bulbs 
of Freesia refracta alba. 
C. L Ingersoll, President of the Colorado 
State Agricultural College $25, in ten vol¬ 
umes of the works of Washington Irving, 
neatly bound. 
Wilson Bro’s, Easton Pa., $5. in a bone 
and shell mill. 
F. M. Hance, Elyria, O., $16. in one trio of 
Black Cochins and one trio of Light Brahmas. 
John A. Salzer, La Crosse, Wis., $20 iD 
flower seeds to be selected from their 1889 
catalogue. 
William B. Reed, Chambersburg, Pa. 
ABIES OTSUGA) CANADENSIS MACROPHYLLA. See Page 795. Fig. 390 
$25 in 10 collections of one dozen roses each 
for 10 souvenirs to as many ladies. 
Gen. Wm. G. Le Due, Hastings, Minn. 
Contribution not as yet determined upon. 
Sec’y. J. S. Woodward, Lockport, N. Y. 
$5. in cash. 
Theodore Neff, Bellaire, Ohio. $5. in 
strawberry or raspberry plants or grape vines, 
as may be selected. 
James Pyle & Sons, New York. $7.50 in 
five boxes of Pearline, one dozen pounds each, 
to be given as five prizes. 
Dr. W. J. Beal, Michigan Agricultural 
College, $5. in his two volumes entitled the 
Grasses of North America. 
Mrs. Jas. H. Lampman, Coxsackie, N. Y., 
$5 in a choice between a pair of Rouen and 
Imperial Pekin Ducks. 
Jones, of Binghamton, N. Y., $8 in one 
Family Scale with a capacity of 240 pounds. 
from the gftutftl (ftroumlsL 
POTATO EXPERIMENTS CONTINUED 
Shall the fertilizer be placed under or over 
the seed pieces f Results of the third 
year's experience of the R. N.-Y. 
W ithout obtaining a satisfactory answer, 
the past season is the third in which we have 
endeavored to find out whether spreading the 
fertilizer under or over the seed-pieces will 
give a larger crop of potatoes. 
The trenches were dug five inches deep and 
fully a foot wide. Stockbridge potato fer¬ 
tilizer *’ was spread under and over the seed 
pieces, separated from them in either case by 
an inch or so of soil, at the rate of 880 pounds 
to the acre. Here is the result. 
FERTILIZER 
UNDER. 
No. 51 
per acre 
359.33 bushels. 
“ 3 
it it 
313 33 
ii 
“ 5 
it 11 
412 50 
ii 
“ 7 
u tt 
330.00 
ii 
“ 9 
it it 
310.20 
ii 
“ 11 
tt it 
335.50 
ii 
“ 13 
it it 
297.00 
it 
“ 15 
it it 
392.33 
it 
“ 17 
ii ii 
289.66 
it 
“ 19 
ii ii 
289.66 
it 
3,329.51 
Or at 
the rate of 332.95 bushels to the acre. 
FERTILIZER 
OVER. 
No. 2 
per acre 
359.33 bushels. 
“ 4 
ii ii 
339.16 
ii 
“ 6 
ii ii 
339.16 
it 
“ 8 
it ii 
322.60 
it 
“ 10 
ii it 
419.&3 
it 
“ 12 
it ii 
322.66 
it 
“ 14 
«i ii 
311.66 
ii 
“ 16 
ii ii 
365. 
ii 
“ 18 
ii it 
354.50 
it 
3133.96 
or, at the rate of 348.21 bushels of potatoes to 
the acre. 
We have here a difference of over 15 bushels 
per acre in favor of placing the fertilizer on 
top. The problem strikes us as one of con¬ 
siderable importance and we are glad to know 
that the N. Y. Experiment Station (and possi¬ 
bly others) have attempted its solution during 
the past season. Probably differences in soils 
(whether light or heavy) and in the rainfall 
would vary the results from season to season. 
♦The average of analyses of the Stockbridge potato 
fertilizer is given as, ammonia, live per cent.; phos¬ 
phoric acid, 10 per cent.; potash 6 per cent. 
