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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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20 with a double team and the largest-sized 
plow, going plump 10 inches deep, and finish¬ 
ing by opening noth the same team and plow 
trenches of the same depth and three feet six 
inches apart. Next by hand, fine soil to the 
depth of about three inches was filled into 
the bottom of these trenches, where the sets, 
cut to two eyes apiece, were dropped one in 
a place 12 to 15 iuches apart. Next unleached 
ashes at the rate of 100 bushels per acre, were 
sowed in the trenches, and about three inches i 
more of Boil filled in, leaving the trenches 
not quite full. Just before the vines were 
ready to come up, I went over the plot with a 
light harrow. As soon as the tops were fair¬ 
ly up, I went through with a five-tooth culti¬ 
vator, and t ereafter once every five days, 
on an average, for the next 40 days, I cultivat¬ 
ed them out, going only once each ‘.time be¬ 
tween each row. The labor of hoeing was 
next to nothing. There was not a pound of 
weeds at any one time on the field. The sur¬ 
face was kept perfectly level, and was at all 
times through the seasou literally “as mellow 
as an ash heap.” No potatoes grew out of the 
ground, but in a trial in the season of 1884, 
with level culture and common shallow plant¬ 
ing, very many were exposed, resulting in 
serious injury. Potatoes were dug as soon as 
perfectly ripe, the last day before September 
1, and stored in barrels in a dark cellar. No 
loss from rot. The season of 1885 was excep¬ 
tionally wet here, at no time did the crop suf¬ 
fer for rain, so that this trial did not fail 1> 
test the merits of this mode of cultivation in 
carrying a crop through a drought. 
Now, as to the yield of the several varieties: 
The rows were each 18 rods long, and of no 
kind planted was there less than a full row. 
All were planted on the same day, and the 
estimate of the yield per acre is based on the 
actual yield per row, and on that of several 
rows of some varieties. 
Dakota Red at the rate of 250 bushels per 
acre. 
Early Sunrise at the rate of 175 bushels per 
acre. 
Early Telephone at the rate of 150 bushels 
per acre. 
Vick's Improved Peachblow at the rate of 
50 bushels per acre. 
Vick’s Prize at the rate of 100 bushels per 
acre. 
White Star at the rate of 175 bushels per 
acre. 
Of no variety, except the Improved Peach- 
blow, was there hardly enough small potatoes 
to render assorting necessary. The crop was 
not only sound, but unusually free from scab. 
On a piece on which, in 1884, by the use of stable 
manure only a light yield held been obtained, 
by substituting superphosphate, tubers of 
more than double the size were obtained and 
twice the yield. The average yield in this 
section last year was not more than half as 
great as usual. s - s - c - 
Fredonia, N. Y. 
HIGH MANURING. 
Here is my experience with potatoes:—The 
ground was naturally good, but very much 
exhausted. I procured about 100 loads, or 75 
tons, of manure made by two or three horses, 
as many cows and a small number of hogs. 
The latter ran loose in the yard, and were also 
fed in an adjoining pen. The offal from the 
slaughter-house was thrown into the yard and 
was well mixed with the stable manure by the 
rooting of the hogs. About 40 loads of the 
manure were put,broadcast,on a trifle less than 
three-quarters of an acre—about 90 feet by 
400 feet. The potatoes were plowed in every 
third furrow, making 30 rows not quite 400 
feet long. Varieties, Peerless and Peachblow, 
which were worked with horse and cultivator, 
with some hand weeding. The growth of 
vines was simply immense. 
Very much to my agreeable surprise, we 
dug 879 bushels of exceedingly large tubers 
besides a few bushels of small ones. Twenty 
of the largest actually filled a bushel measure, 
and aggregated 45 pounds, the largest single 
one weighing 4% pounds. I think 1 could 
have picked out 50 bushels, not one of which 
would have weighed less than half a pound. 
The Peerless were the largest, but the Peach- 
blows were the smoothest and best formed. 
Northeast, Md. s. c. R. 
POTATOES WITHIN POTATOES, 
The specimen from which our illustration, 
Fig. 124, was drawn was sent to us by Mr. 
M. E. Park, of Ontario, Can. He says it was 
found in a potato bin in the cellar, which was 
exposed to light and air. Such abnormal 
growths are not uncommon, and no doubt 
have their origin by some suppression of the 
external buds, which induces the growth of 
adventitious buds within. 
FEEDING POTATOES WITH SAFETY. 
When animals are fed roots or potatoes 
whole or cut into large pieces, they are fre¬ 
quently in danger of choking themselves by 
attempting to swallow before the food has 
been properly chewed. The device shown at 
Fig. 125 will be useful in preventing tins 
trouble. The small wooden bar, shown in the 
drawing, is placed across the stanchions so 
that the annual cannot raise its head to swal 
low a large piece. The bar is held in place by 
orable than that of Mr. Atkinson; practi¬ 
cally, I find the results of silage not encour¬ 
aging. As regards fattening stock, I think 
its effects first-rate, but for milk, it is 
of doubtful utility. Silage is tart and sour, 
and its acidity prevents the milk from 
keeping any length of time, say 24 to 3(5 
hours; whereas, if cows are fed on cut fod¬ 
der, corn meal and cotton-seed meal together 
with turnips or cabbage, all mixed aud a little 
salt added, the milk will keep sweet fully that 
time, if not longer. Doabtless the flow of 
VERMONT FAVORITE POTATO. 
means of a pin, as shown. After the feeding 
the pin may be withdrawn, aud the bar hangs 
down the stanchion out of the way. 
farm tropics. 
SILAGE FOR STOCK. 
Mr. Edward Atkinson at the’recent meet¬ 
ing of the ensilage congress, spoke as follows: 
“My experience in silos is limited. When 
From Nature. Fig. 122. (See p. 205.) 
milk is good from cows fed on silage, aud this 
kind of food encourages it, being a stimulant, 
but the quality and keeping properties e 
injured. 
Now, would not the “sweet” silage counter¬ 
act these defects and at the same time give a 
natural stimulation which would not injure 
the stock! R - H - 
[The advantages of “sweet silage” have been 
discussed much more freely and frequently on 
the other side of the Atlantic than on this, 
aud there it apjieai’s to lie meeting with gen- 
POTATOES WITHIN POTATO. Fig. 124. 
my attention was drawn to the subject some 
five or six years ago. I built two small silos of 
10 tons capacity, on the silage of which I keep 
my two family cows. Since building these 
silos I have studied the subject as an econo¬ 
mist and statistician, i have concluded that if 
1 were not an underwriter by profession, I 
LAKE GEORGE. From Nature. Fig. 121. 
(See page 205.) 
would establish a beef factory in the East and 
feed the cattle on silage.” In this connection 
a correspondent says: 
“My experience with ensilage is less fav- 
est stock food. Ensilage is yet on trial; let 
men of ample means test the system thor¬ 
oughly, and let prudent feeders act according 
to the'results.—E ds.] 
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