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THE RUKAb NEW-YORKER 
December 10, 
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PEDIGREED POTATO SEED. 
I notice the article on “Pedigreed 
Potato Seed.” I have been carrying out 
those same ideas for the last three years 
on one variety of potatoes, the Clyde, 
and this year raised on 3% measured 
acres 1,260 bushels. I enclose a list of 
some of the hills saved for next year’s 
planting. You will notice that I have 
five or six tubers to the hill, grown on 
a single stalk, and the average weight 
is high. I beat this locality for yield 
this year. 
No. 
Potatoes 
No. 
lbs. In 
Stalks to 
Average 
Weigh 
in Hill. 
Hill. 
Hill. 
Single 
Tuber. 
6 
4% 
1 
11 1/3 
oz. 
5 
4% 
1 
15 1 /5 
oz. 
6 
4 
1 
10 2/3 
oz. 
5 
3 % 
1 
12 
oz. 
6 
3% 
1 
10 
oz. 
I will also state that the hills were 
one foot apart and the rows three feet, 
and were put in with a planter so there 
are over 14,000 hills to the acre set one 
foot. Hills that will yield as many 
pounds as noted above, mean an enor¬ 
mous yield to the acre, and that is what 
I am trying for, with a lot of potatoes 
true to type. w. t . hannah. 
Maine. 
A GRASSHOPPER CONVENTION. 
It seems like a strange gathering but 
it will be held at Greeley, Col., on 
January 6, 1911. No, it is not a meet- 
ine of “hoppers,” but the best farmers 
and entomologists in Colorado will be 
there in State convention. The object 
is to find some way of fighting grass¬ 
hoppers effectively, especially as to de¬ 
stroying eggs. The grasshoppers are 
snreading like a plague of Egypt where 
Alfalfa gains a permanent ground. They 
seem to go with Alfalfa in the West 
about as potato beetles travel where po¬ 
tato growing increases. Now Alfalfa is 
the foundation rock upon which Colo¬ 
rado farming is built. For years the 
land taken from the raw desert and irri¬ 
gated from the rivers was thought to be 
inexhaustible, but after many crops of 
wheat or potatoes it shows signs of 
hunger and must be fed. Alfalfa is the 
great fertilizer for Colorado farms. It 
provides hay to feed with sugar beets. 
Thus farmers can fatten gattle and sheep 
through the Winter and use the manure 
on their farms. The Alfalfa soil when 
plowed under makes a fine seed bed for 
potatoes. When the grasshoppers 
threaten the Alfalfa fields they thus en¬ 
danger the future of Colorado farming 
as at present conducted and every energy 
of those farmers may well be devoted to 
fighting them. Here then is a big prob¬ 
lem for Colorado farmers and scientists. 
They will not sit still and wait, but they 
will fight. Prof. Johnson of the Col¬ 
orado Agricultural College, gives this in¬ 
formation about grasshopper eggs: 
Grasshopper eggs are laid lu pods, about 
an inch or an inch and a half long, just 
under the surface of the ground. A variety 
of situations are selected. Different kinds 
of hoppers appear to select different con¬ 
ditions. Some kinds lay in dry locations 
where the soil is firm, such as ditch banks, 
paths and knolls in the field. Others lay 
among the grass roots and about the stems 
of Alfalfa, weeds and other plants. The 
best way to hunt for eggs Is to take a 
shovel and skim off the surface of the 
ground about an inch deep. This will gen¬ 
erally cut the pods open so that they are 
easily seen. It will pay the farmer to 
spend a day or two going over his prop¬ 
erty. Pass along the fences and over the 
ditch banks, uncovering a square foot of 
earth every few feet or a rod. Look in all 
sorts of locations. Then cross the fields 
several times, in several directions, examin¬ 
ing the ground all the way. By this means 
the infested spots can be found and cleaned 
out. If eggs appear to be generally dis¬ 
tributed over a field, it will be well to 
plow or disk it one or more times in late 
Fall or early Spring, preferably both. Deep 
plowing will put the eggs so deeply under 
the ground that very few of the young will 
reach the surface, even if the eggs hatch. 
Disking and shallow plowing will tend to 
break up the pods and expose them to the 
weather and the ravages of birds so that 
they will be very largely destroyed. The 
most difficult places to clean out are along 
the fences and ditch banks. A plow may 
be run as closely as possible on either 
side of the fence, and the strip 
between grubbed out. This means con¬ 
siderable work, but the places where 
such careful work is needed are usually 
email and careful investigation will mate¬ 
rially lessen the amount of labor. 
A Potato Contest. —A Garden Pro¬ 
tection Association in England offers 
prizes to the members who can grow the 
largest bulk or weight of potatoes from 
one pound of tubers. The planter may 
cut his pound into as many pieces as 
he likes, but the crop must be planted 
and dug between April 1 and September 
27. The winner this year cut his pound 
of seed into 56 sets and grew 221J /2 
pounds in 143 days. The second prize 
went to a man who cut the pound into 
50 sets and grew 198 pounds. The 
smallest yield was 35 pounds. One man 
cut to 83 sets but only grew 45 pounds. 
The average yield from one pound of 
seed was 112 2-5 pounds, or 2 2-5 pounds 
from each cutting or set. In another con¬ 
test each planter was required to cut his 
pound of seed into 30 sets—no more or 
no less. The best yield in this contest 
was 59 l /2 pounds and the average yield 
27^2 pounds. These Englishmen con¬ 
clude that these results show that big 
seed pieces are not necessary. 
The Argentine Ant.- —Bulletin 207 from 
the California Station discusses the habits 
of the Argentine ant, an insect which is 
slowly making its way through the State. 
As a household pest this ant is a great 
nuisance, and it also does great damage 
in robbing beehives. In sections where this 
ant abounds a hunt for remedies has risen 
to the dignity of a Station bulletin. What 
is known as the “water barrier” is sug¬ 
gested. This means putting the legs of 
tables holding food into cups of water. 
Pure water will not keep out the Argentine 
ant, so enough cresol to make the water 
milky is put in. This plan of making a 
house “ant proof” will interest many East¬ 
ern housekeepers. "The rendering of a 
house ant-proof may be accomplished, pro¬ 
vided there is a level all around the house 
where a trough can be fastened which can 
be kept filled with cresol water, and pro¬ 
vided that the floor is made ant-tight. It 
is even possible to allow for vines on the 
house, and still have it tight by allowing 
a space through which the vine may grow, 
but stuffing it with cotton to prevent the 
ants climbing up the stem. A pantry can 
be easily made ant-proof by a trough just 
above the top of the doors and windows 
and the suspension of the shelves from sup¬ 
ports above this line. We have tried these 
troughs under the most severe conditions 
and they have proven absolutely effective, 
and they do not need attention more than 
two or three times a year.” As for killing 
the ants, the old plan of punching a hole 
into the nest with a crowbar and pouring 
in bisulphide of carbon does not work so 
well in California. The soil is so dry that 
the gas is soon lost. A miscible oil like 
“Sealecide” mixed with water makes a good 
application. The various “ant powders” do 
not stop this Argentine variety, but pyre- 
thrum, while fresh, kills the insect. A so¬ 
lution of corrosive sublimate in alcohol 
painted on the shelves helps for a time. 
The best results are obtained when using 
solution of arsenic and syrup. A sponge is 
saturated with this poison and put into a 
large jar with a perforated cover. The 
ants enter throfigh the holes, fill them¬ 
selves with the poison solution and carry it 
to their nests. That ends them. 
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