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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
AN OHIO POTATO CROP. 
I bought five acres of land adjoining 
my farm. The price was $500; I bor¬ 
rowed the money for three years, think¬ 
ing I could make the piece of ground 
pay for itself by that time. This was 
in April, 1909. I then hired it plowed 
deeply, it being clover sod; the plow¬ 
ing was done in three days for $7. I 
harrowed it with my one horse, allow¬ 
ing for my labor $2. I bought 50 bush¬ 
els of fine large potatoes for seed at 80 
cents per bushel, $40. I then hired 
labor for planting May 15; planting was 
$(>. They were planted with two-horse 
planter about eight inches apart, from 
six to seven inches deep. When about 
to come up I harrowed them well with 
one horse one day, $2; then when they 
cality we should experiment with 
Hairy vetch, and while doing so put 
in a mixture of rye, Crimson clover 
and Cow-horn turnips. The Canada 
field pea is best to seed with oats. We 
cut them when the first little peas are 
getting hard in the pod, though it is 
hard to strike the exact time. Oats 
and peas should give from two to three 
tons of cured hay per acre. 
TAX EXEMPTED ORCHARDS. 
In a recent issue of The R. N.-Y. you 
refer to a resolution of the New Hamp¬ 
shire Horticultural Society favoring the 
exemption from taxation of newly set 
orchards for a term of years. Prob¬ 
ably the action of the society was in¬ 
fluenced by an article which I wrote for 
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WINTER IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. Fig.- 17 
were all up about three to four inches I 
cultivated with one-horse cultivator up 
close, $3. Later I went through with 
one-horse double shovel plow close and 
deep, $3; lastly with double-shovel plow 
once in a row deep, $2. This finished 
till digging time, which cost me nearly 
$40. I used no fertilizer at all, nor did 
I spray them. I only had a few bugs, 
which I picked off at the cost of $2. I 
had no bligh't in my patch. Others were 
hurt badly. I think this is largely the 
result of good strong seed. My ex¬ 
penses with potatoes in barn are $107. 
When I had them dug I had-1,580 bush¬ 
els of marketable potatoes from the five- 
acre lot. My whole crop was large; 
they were the Ohio Carman No. 3, all 
the one kind. I shipped and sold at fit 
cents per bushel, less five cents freight 
per bushel, making $884.80, less expenses, 
$107; net .$777.80. This was 1909 crop. 
Then I sowed the lot to wheat. This 
harvest thrashed 115 bushels of nice 
wheat. I have it back in clover now 
this year, 1910. I fertilized my potatoes 
on three-quarters of an acre, used about 
$15 worth. I got 195 bushels of pota¬ 
toes. This does not speak well for fer¬ 
tilizer. The season was not so good, too 
"New England Farms” and printed in 
their February issue. In the article was 
a proposition which I consider of as 
much or more importance than the ex¬ 
emption itself, and it has not been men¬ 
tioned in the action of the society; this 
is that the orchard should be set and 
cared for by some one of the approved 
methods and under the direction and 
approval of the Horticultural Depart¬ 
ment of the State College. I would 
like to see the work of our State Col¬ 
lege exemplified in different parts of the 
State, not only in orchards, but in any 
other way that might be possible, as 
there are hundreds of farmers that are 
hard to reach at a distance from the in¬ 
stitution. A. I.: LITTLEFIELD. 
New Hampshire. 
A White Winter. —The picture 
shown at Fig. 17 was taken near 
Franconia, X. H., and shows a grove of 
evergreens after a snowstorm. It will 
appeal to some of our readers who live 
in warmer climes, and who were out in 
the sun working the soil at the time this 
picture was taken. This snow may 
seem a handicap to such people, but to 
New Hampshire the Winter weather is 
becoming an asset, for thousands of 
tourists now visit the State to enjoy 
skating and coasting or snowshoeing. 
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I have two fields of about nine acres each 
which I wish to rotate with corn for silo, 
and oats and peas for hay. Can I keep 
up the fertility by sowing Mammoth clover 
with the oats and peas, to be plowed under 
the next Spring for corn and sowing some 
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best kind of peas to sow with oats to 
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what stage of maturity Is it best to cut 
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