THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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RURAL POTATO REPORTS. 
(Continued from Page 739.) 
September 19. Yield 113 potatoes, weigh¬ 
ing 29 pounds. Largest weighed 13 ounces. 
Elyria, C. K. M. 
Forty-four small eyes yielded 37 pounds 
13 ounces, trench culture. m. m. : 
Centre. 
PENNSYLVANIA. 
Thirteen eyes planted April 33, in a 
trench with potato fertilizer. Flat culti¬ 
vation. Yield, 4(3 potatoes, weighing 15 
pounds. J. E. w. 1 
New Alexandria, 
Five eyes planted May 1; soil well fer¬ 
tilized ; yield nine pounds 10 ounces. 
Girard. . _ B.. . 
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Ten eyes planted May 7, in a trench ; .only * 
six grew. Yield, 20 potatoes of fair size. 
Saegerstown. E. A. k. •'! 
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One small potato; yield, 6};^ pounds—21A 
.potatoes in all. Fertilized with wood ashes, ' 
Eaton. MRS. H. H. ‘ 
Poeato weighing \]4 ounce cut into 
seven pieces, and received regular field cul¬ 
ture; Yield, 33 tubers, weighing eight 
pounds; all marketable. A. P. A. 
Meadville. 
Six pieces planted May 25; four grew. 
Dug September 34; yield, 13 marketable 
potatoes, weighing three pounds. Largest 
weighed six ounces; smallest the size of a 
hen’s egg. MRS. w. D. H. 
Beaver Falls. 
VIRGINIA. 
Ten one-eye pieces planted May 1, seven 
grew, fertilized with bone phosphate. Dug 
October 9, yield eight pounds, nice potatoes. 
Speedwell. H. M. A. 
Five hills, fertilized with one pint of hen- 
manure in each hill, planted April 1. Dug 
second week in August. Yield nine pounds 
nice, smooth potatoes with no sign of rot. 
Barren Springs. F. C. 
Five hills blighted early, but yielded 43 
tubers weighing 18 pounds; beauties. 
Fagg. G. W. B. 
Three eyes in garden soil, no manure, 
planted July 1. Dug September 36, yield 
nine tubers, weighing three pounds two 
ounces. mo a. k. 
Winchester. 
VERMONT. 
Potato cut to 11 eyes. Planted May 18 
in trenches, fertilizer at the rate of 500 
pounds per acre above the seed. Dug Sep¬ 
tember 9, yield 16}vT pounds. II. L. P. 
Williamstown. 
Potato as large as a butternut, yielded 
seven pounds seven ounces, entirely free 
from rot though other varieties rotted 
badly. j. F. B. 
Tunbridge. 
WISCONSIN. 
Seven pieces planted April 20, in soil 
well fertilized with stable manure, and 
wood ashes. Killed by frost September 18. 
Dug September 30. Yield 17 pounds of 
smooth, sound potatoes. J. V. L. 
La Crosse. 
Six eyes planted in garden. Dug Sep, 
teinber 28, yield 39 tubers, weighing 10 
pounds 10 X ounces. w. d. 
Lynxville. 
Eight hills planted April 15 in good, deep 
soil, dug September 21. Yield 77 tubers 
weighing 29 pounds six ounces, 890 bushels 
totheacre. A. c. P. 
Riolilaud Center. 
Seven hills yielded 40 potatoes weighing 
11 pounds six ounces, dug September 4. 
Oconomowoc. MRS. C. H. .1. 
TWO hills planted May 8, fertilized with 
rotten manure in the hill. Dug September 
38, yield 19 potatoes, largest two weighed 
36 ounces. A % J. 
Neeuah. 
WEST VIRGINIA. . 
Two small tubers made34 eyes—planted 
in pots, reset in field May 15. Dug Sep¬ 
tember 9. Yield 37 pounds. J. D. s. 
- Wellsburg. 
Planted April 4, seven eyes. Yield 11 
pounds 14 ounces. L. H. w. 
Welcome. 
WASHINGTON. 
I PLANTED seven one-eye pieces in trench 
eight inches deep with a liberal layer of 
well-rotted manure under them. I then 
covered them about three inches, and filled 
trench when they came up. No other cul¬ 
tivation. I dug 42 potatoes weighing 22 
pounds. The largest weighed 17 ounces. 
Every potato is perfect in form. j. -B. A. 
Mitchell. 
WYOMING TERRITORY. 
My little potato gave six eyes. Cut by 
frost June 6, bloomed July 15. Killed by 
frost September 6. Yield 64 potatoes weigh¬ 
ing 16 pounds 10 ounces. w. . 1 . s. 
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RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Kansas. 
IUKA, Pratt County, October 15.—This 
has been a year of general prosperity in 
this section. Wheat, oats and corn are. all 
above the average. Almost all vegetables 
are in abundance. Potatoes are a good 
average excepting later kinds which will 
be a very short crop. There is very little 
rot. We have a large crop of sweet pota¬ 
toes and the quality can’t be excelled by 
any Jersey potato. Our long, dry spell was 
broken by a general rain on the 14th and 15th. 
The acreage of wheat sown this fall is the 
largest ever put in, and we are sure of a 
good stand for the ground is t^ocoughly 
soaked. All kinds of feed are abundant and 
cheap. Wheat 50 cents; oats, LO-12 cents; 
corn 12-14 cents per bushel; hogs, £3.25; 
cattle (cows and heifers) £1.25-81.75 per 
cwt.; potatoes, 45 cents; butter, 12 cents; 
eggs, 10 cents; chickens, £1.50 and £1.75 per 
dozen. With an abundance of cane for 
honey and numbers of cows for milk— 
surely we are in “ the land of milk and 
honey.” J. J. M. 
Michigan. 
Middleville, Barry County, October 13. 
—Clover seed is not more than half a crop. 
The dry weather shortened it; but there is 
no use in getting discouraged; clover is the 
only thing to keep life in my land as long 
as I can get a seed. Wheat did pretty well 
by measure, but was light in weight; 
barley was also light. Oats were a fair 
crop - about 40 bushels to the acre. Pota¬ 
toes are a fair crop, when planted early. 
P. MCM. 
PARMA, Jackson County.—Probably there 
will not be more than a quarter of a crop of 
clover seed. Corn aboat half a crop. Wheat 
a little short. Oats an average crop. Pota¬ 
toes and all other crops are good on reclaim¬ 
ed low land ; but otherwise they are short; 
but there is enough for culinary purposes 
generally. Strawberry plants set early got 
a good start; the first runners rooted but it 
has been so dry since that not one-fourth 
of the runners have rooted, which makes 
scant matted rows. Cattle are depending 
on fodder as in winter. Fodder is abund¬ 
ant. Grapes half a crop and their value has 
been diminished by frost. E. B. C. 
Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Octo¬ 
ber 17.—Clover seed has been a very poor crop 
for the amount of straw—one bushel to 
the acre is a fair average. Apples about (50 
per cent, of a crop ; corn, 55 per cent. The 
outlook for the coming wheat crop is about 
25 per ceut. and unless it rain soon there 
will not be that much. . r. s. 
New York. 
Farmington, Ontario County.—The oat 
crop in this section was light. Hay, corn and 
winter wheat were good. Early potatoes 
are a failure, while later varieties on some 
farms are much better than was expected. 
Fruit is scarce and of a very inferior 
quality. E. A. H. 
Lk Roy, Genesee County, October 9.—No 
clover seed is raised in this town nor has 
.there been any for three years. Potatoes 
are badly blighted—only a-lialf crop. 
Wheat, barley and oats are very good crops. 
Beans are good on dry lands. Apples are 
scarce. The hay crop is very heavy. -Prices 
of all kinds of farm products are low. 
Wheat on the ground is rat her small. 
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