1909. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Ill 
NOTES ON POTATOES. 
For years I have been looking for 
the ideal potato, and in my search I 
have tested many varieties. Last year 
I had 18, several of which were very 
fine indeed. They were grown on 
rather heavy sandy loam of moderate 
fertility, with the aid of about 500 
pounds of a complete fertilizer to the 
acre. They were more or less hindered 
in their growth by the drought. The 
size was all right generally, but the 
number was small. I have not seen any 
rot. Nearly every variety seemed to be 
at its best. 
I had a few bushels of the old Blue 
Neshannock, which was a favorite 50 
years ago. It used to rot, but this sea¬ 
son it was smooth and- handsome, and 
fully up to the average in productive¬ 
ness. It was always of excellent quality 
and is yet. If it has deteriorated in any 
way during these 50 years I fail to 
see it. 
The Snowflake is one of my favorites, 
and it seems to be as good as ever. I 
but nearly all the tubers were small. The 
drought came at the wrong time for 
them. 
The Crawford was originated here 
about 20 years ago, and is a favorite for 
productiveness and quality. It was 
never introduced, but sold here in town 
at the common market price. It is long 
and creamy white with considerable 
color around the eyes. We aim to have 
a supply for home use on account of its 
excellence and beauty. Three varieties 
sent me from western Pennsylvania are 
very promising. No. 116 has the color 
of the old Jersey Peachblow, but is of 
a nice oval shape. It excels in produc¬ 
tiveness, beauty and quality. It will 
probably be named and put on the mar¬ 
ket. No. 99 is oblong, very white and 
slightly flattened. It is productive and 
of good quality besides being nice look¬ 
ing. 
One of the finest I ever saw is the 
Manistee. It was a surprise to find the 
tubers so large and beautiful and such 
a good yield. There were scarcely any 
small ones. It is oval, flat and russety, 
with shallow eyes. The quality is very 
THE PREACHER AT IIIS DARKEY JOB. Fig. 49. 
had not had it for a long time, but I 
found it again two years ago. It ap¬ 
pears to have been superseded by others 
not as good. 
The Seneca Beauty was grown here 
nearly 20 years ago, and was a variety 
of great excellence, but the largest speci¬ 
mens were apt to be hollow, and it was 
discarded. Later on one of our citizens 
found such a good potato in his travels 
that he bought seed and raised it for his 
own use, and gave some to friends. I 
obtained a few and found it to be the 
Seneca Beauty that I had discarded. It 
was again dropped for the same reason. 
Last Spring a friend in Lorain County 
sent me a peck of the “best potato.” I 
found it to be the Seneca Beauty again. 
I planted about half a peck and never 
saw the variety finer. I think that by 
having more eyes in a hill there would 
be fewer large specimens, and these are 
the only ones that are hollow. I have 
heard it said that potatoes grown under 
straw are never hollow. 
For two years I have grown a very 
promising seedling sent me by D. J. 
Miller, of Holmes County, O. It re¬ 
sembles the Carman No. 3, and is fully 
equal, if not superior, to that splendid 
variety. When not over half grown the 
quality is good. I know of no other 
sort that is fine for so many months in 
the year unless it may be the Early Ohio. 
It is a good yielder and has the right 
shape and color to make it popular in 
the market. 
I have grown for two years three of 
the alcohol producing potatoes imported 
from Siberia by the Department of Agri¬ 
culture. One is a long red variety, one 
round blue with yellow flesh, and one 
round white with a pink eye. They were 
almost a failure last year, and not much 
better this. None of them was as pro¬ 
ductive as some others, nor above the 
average in quality. Both the blue and 
the white were too small, and the red 
was quite unattractive. Perhaps they 
will improve, but not with me. 
I had two new kinds from Canada 
that made a wonderful growth of vine, 
good. If it were whiter it would be a 
model market variety, but its russety 
skin gives it a dark color—too dark to 
be called white. 
There is one other that I will men¬ 
tion. Last year a barrel of the Ionia 
was planted and a sport was found un¬ 
der peculiar circumstances. The fore¬ 
man took a nice specimen and cut it in 
quarters and planted them in his gar¬ 
den along with other varieties that he 
was testing. When he came to dig them 
one had produced potatoes more blue 
than white, and far more productive 
than the others. In digging the Ionia in 
the field three more blue tubers were 
found. These were given to me and 
from them I raised 40 pounds, and they 
are beauties. It is not a new thing for 
a potato to sport; but it is remarkable 
for one-quarter of a white variety to 
produce blue tubers, while the other 
three-quarters alongside produced white 
ones. The three tubers given me were 
found in two hills. M. Crawford. 
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