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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 4 
EARLY POTATOES. 
My seed potatoes, which are large, 
well-formed tubers, are stored in a cool 
cellar, where, by the last of March, the 
sprouts have barely started. I take the 
potatoes up-stairs and spread them 
evenly, not piled up at all, on the floor 
in a sunny south room which my wife 
clears for me every Spring. The date 
of carrying up the potatoes varies but 
little. During the last week in March 
they are taken up and are usually cut 
and planted from three to four weeks 
later. The varieties planted are Irish 
Cobbler and Carman No. 1. By the time 
I am ready to plant these potatoes 
have stocky green sprouts. The seed is 
cut, aiming to get as large a piece of 
potato as possible with from one to 
three eyes on it—one eye preferred. I 
think this insures large potatoes in the 
hill. For the last seven years I have 
sprinkled sulphur over the cut seed to 
insure smooth potatoes. Formerly I 
soaked the uncut seed in a solution of 
corrosive sublimate. I find that the 
sulphur does the work as well, and also 
keeps the seed piece from rotting in the 
ground, as unsulphured seed sometimes 
will, if cold weather comes on after the 
seed is planted and the potatoes do not 
come up for some time. We have never 
failed to get a good stand of potatoes. 
After the seed is cut and sulphured it is 
immediately planted. Potatoes follow 
corn in rotation. I plow the ground 
in the Fall and cover with manure dur¬ 
ing the Winter. It is plowed again in 
the Spring and fitted until it is as 
smooth as a garden. Then I furrow 
out with a plow, marking the rows with 
a trench at least four inches deep. The 
seed and fertilizer are both dropped by 
hand and the fertilizer carefully dis¬ 
tributed in the trench. I use 800 pounds 
of fertilizer to the acre and it is all 
put in the row. The seed pieces are 
dropped from 14 to 16 inches apart. The 
ground is then gone over lightly with 
the spring-tooth harrow. The piece 
looks somewhat ridgy when I get 
through planting. I go over the ground 
every few days with a light iron drag 
until I can see the rows. This levels the 
piece and destroys a great many weeds, 
which greatly lessens the labor of hand 
hoeing. I go through the piece but once 
with the hand hoe. As soon as I can 
see the rows of potatoes I begin with 
the cultivator and keep that going every 
few days until the vines get so large 
that I cannot get through. I never ridge 
the potatoes, but give them level culture. 
I use Bordeaux Mixture at least twice 
if the weather is favorable, and if it is 
not I keep the sprayer going until I 
get some poison on the vines that stays 
on. I get the potatoes planted as early 
as the weather permits. The season 
here is late, of course, for we are in 
the northern part of New York State. 
Using Bordeaux helps to keep away 
the blight, but by planting early I get 
ahead of the blight to a great extent. 
Never has there been a season but that 
I have seen some of it in the field but 
not enough to injure the crop very 
much. I have never lost many potatoes 
from rotting in the ground, but I al¬ 
ways have them out of the ground early 
in the season. 
By forcing the potatoes in this way I 
have had fine new potatoes to use the 
last of June, and can get ripe potatoes 
on the market while other growers are 
offering green ones. E. R. F. 
Cape Vincent, N. Y. 
Manure With Pine Needles. 
L. W. F., Nno York .—We have been buy¬ 
ing manure in the village two miles from 
the farm, paying $1 a load for all we could 
put on, about two tons, drawing it with 
our own teams. The stable that we have 
been getting the manure from used rye 
straw for bedding until lately when they 
changed to pine twigs and needles. The 
manure contains quite a large amount of 
the bedding, the finer part of which is 
not shaken out but is thrown in with the 
manure. Is the manure containing the pine 
twigs and needles as valuable a fertilizer 
as the manure containing rye straw? We 
have been putting the manure in a heap 
and rotting it before using. Do you con¬ 
sider this a good way of handling it? We 
have used manure from stables where wood 
shavings were used for bedding and found 
that the manuie soured the land. Would 
the acid in the shavings affect land more 
than the pine twigs in the manure? At 
the price we are paying for manure (.$1 a 
load and draw it with our own teams) 
would it be cheaper to get our plant food 
by buying fertilizers? We rent a farm of 
about 50 acres and raise sweet corn, toma¬ 
toes, asparagus and strawberries for mar¬ 
ket. We also have a few acres in grass. 
For which of these crops would fertilizer 
be best ar.d if a rotation of fertilizer and 
manure, was used how would you work it? 
Ans. —No. The manure containing 
the pine is not as valuable as that with 
the rye straw. The pine contains an 
acid which injures the ground unless it 
is thoroughly neutralized. Rotting in 
the' pile or soaking in the stable liquids 
will help this, but if we were to use such 
manure we should use lime with it— 
first plowing the manure under, then 
broadcasting and harrowing in the lime. 
As for piling manure to ferment it, for 
such manure as you mention it will pay. 
In general farming it probably pays to 
get the manure on the ground at once. 
With your crops and that kind of ma¬ 
nure thorough rotting in the pile will 
help. The manure will be best for the 
strawberries and asparagus. If you 
haul two tons at a load average manure 
will give you not far from 20 pounds 
of nitrogen, 10 pounds of phosphoric 
acid and 25 of potash. In nitrate of 
soda, muriate of potash and acid phos¬ 
phate they will cost at least $5. If 
you can rot the manure and use the 
lime so as to neutralize the acid you 
cannot buy nitrogen cheaper than in the 
manure. You can use fine ground bone 
and sulphate of potash with manure and 
in this way “balance” the manure. 
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