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the seed pieces in the 
row? 
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would you use to grow 
300 bushels of potatoes 
per acre ? How would 
you apply it? 
4j[ Are you sure that 
your seed potatoes are 
true to name and true to 
type? 
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to prevent “scab” and 
early and late blight ? 
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| The Home Acre. 
Green Crops for Chicken Run. 
Let Villager, page 147, try the com¬ 
mon wild honeysuckle as a soil binder 
in his lienyard. It is easy to plant, 
grows fast and nothing will eat it. If 
his land were moist and cool and fertile 
he might find the English ivy better. The 
former does well on poor, dry, warm soil. 
It stays green all Winter here in the 
mountains. Bunches of wild “creeping 
Charlie” or ground ivy thrown into those 
gullies with a few rocks over them would 
also be let alone by the average hen. 
During the hot weather he could grow 
the “Jack bean” and the “Sword bean” 
right in his lienyard, and the hens would 
not bother them except to cultivate them. 
Nothing will eat them, not even a duck. 
The hens would not even destroy the 
cotyledons as they come through the 
ground—might possibly break oft' one or 
two in tramping them or testing them. 
North Carolina. e. b, ii. 
Replying to Villager on soil binding 
growth for lienyard, I would suggest try¬ 
ing horse-radish. This is one plant that 
hens do not seem to touch, and I think 
if the plants or roots were set out anil 
protected for a time by small stakes 
driven close around to keep the hens 
from scratching them out they would 
soon take care of themselves. Last year 
the writer had a yard 80x100 feet with 
about 100 hens in it. rivery bit of green 
was entirely dug out and eaten up ex¬ 
cept four or five horse-radish plants and 
two wild Asters; these plants all were 
of extra strong large growth, and all dur¬ 
ing the molting season the birds seemed 
ilmost to live under the plants. There 
was plenty of pear and apple tree shade 
but the birds preferred the big broad leaf 
protecting shade of the horse-radish. The 
wild Asters also seemed to be liked by 
the birds, and filled with blue flowers, 
which they carried until late in the Fall. 
They added rather than detracted from 
the general appearance of the yard. I 
had intended trying out a full row of 
the liorse-railish, also one of the Asters 
in the yards this coming season, but will 
not be able to do so on account of moving 
into the city. I realize of course that 
horse-radish grows best in damp places, 
and that swamp places are not best for 
lienyards, but our place last year was 
all right for both hens and plants. 
“TOWN'EK.” 
is 
Irrigation on Sandy Land. 
Charles W. Skinner, inventor of 
popular system of overhead irrigation, 
giving a practical demonstration of the 
value of irrigation on his South Jersey 
farm. lie came to New Jersey from 
Ohio and purchased 30 acres of land in 
Gloucester County; cleared and culti¬ 
vated and put 10 acres of it under irri¬ 
gation the first year. It was said of this 
land that it was so poor that a turtle 
would starve to death going across it. 
This was the opinion of some of the 
natives, but Mr. Skinner had his own 
ideas, which he expected to work out on 
this land; and the first season showed 
that he was doing it. 
One of the best streams in this section 
borders on the back part of this farm, 
and so there is an unlimited water sup¬ 
ply. The power house is placed close 
to tliis stream. All the swamp land ad¬ 
joining the stream is being cleared and 
tihal, and makes splendid celery ground- 
The 10 acres which were first cleared 
had not been under cultivation for 34 
years, so it was rested and ready to re¬ 
spond to the proper treatment. Land 
needs head work as well as hand work, 
and this man had an active brain as well 
as hands. He believes in giving the 
land plenty of food and water, and the 
acres in return give back wonderful 
crops. lie started with a heavy applica¬ 
tion of manure from a nearby city. Celery 
seed was sown in February, and the 
plants put in the field the last of April 
and first of May. This celery was sent 
to market the last of June and first of 
July. It was grown in double rows, one 
foot apart, the double rows being 14 feet 
apart, with the space between the celery 
planted in another crop, such as radishes 
or lettuce. 
Most of the 100,000 plants were 
mulched with manure direct from the car 
February L'1, 
from a nearby station. The team and 
wagon could be driven astride of the 
double row of celery, the manure thrown 
off and placed between and around the 
plant”, by hand. Some of the celery was 
mulched with refuse from potato and to¬ 
mato crops. The celery thus mulched, 
and with rain and plenty of irrigation, 
did well. The varieties grown were 
Winter Queen, Giant Pascal, Snow White 
and Golden Self Blanching. The main 
reason Mr. Skinner puts his double celery 
rows 14 feet apart is to get plenty of 
earth to pull up to the plants to blanch 
them with, and this works his top soil to 
a depth of IS to 20 inches. 
The one-lialf acre of Bonnie Best to¬ 
matoes were also mulched, as the soil 
was sandy and believed to be too poor to 
grow weeds. However, with the manure 
mulch and plenty of water, the tomatoes 
yielded almost 10 tons on the half acre, 
and a fine crop of radishes and good let¬ 
tuce was raised after the tomatoes, the 
Big Boston lettuce and radishes were 
sown at the same time. S to well's Ever¬ 
green corn was planted three and four 
feet apart, and mulched and irrigated; 
in fact everything on the cleared land 
is covered by the irrigation system. After 
the corn was cut, a fine crop of lettuce 
was raised on the ground. 
There was one acre in potatoes, Irish 
Gobbler and Early Fortune, 28 inches 
apart in the rows. The yield was 400 
bushels of prime potatoes. Two-thirds 
of an acre of red onion seed was sown in 
April and taken off in August. Celery 
plants were put between the rows in July. 
A crop of endive was also grown, which 
was banked and bleached and sold for 40 
cents a pound. It averaged about one- 
fourth pound to a stalk. In a dry season 
the thrips often ruins an onion crop. This 
was overcome by the use of nitrate of 
soda in solution, put on through the 
irrigation system. 
One of the prettiest crops was the 
cantaloupes, 48 hills in a row, and 48 
rows and of as fine quality as Jersey ever 
grew; 2,S00 baskets were sold. A good 
leaf growth is necessary for a sweet 
cantaloupe, and the effort was to pro¬ 
duce this growth. The aim was for 
quality and not for quantity. 
The future development of agriculture 
in the East lies in the utilization of every 
resource, in which irrigation is an im¬ 
portant factor. We know what irriga¬ 
tion will do, and we need now to study 
the systems and apply them where suita¬ 
ble conditions can be found- Mr. Skin¬ 
ner has rebuilt his house and barn and 
the same water supply and power that 
waters his farm is used in the house and 
barn- c. J. s. 
Controlling Potato Bugs. 
I had an unusual but pleasant ex- 
porience last season with my potatoes. 
I would like to know how to continue it? 
I haven’t had a potato bug during the 
whole season. While the previous year 
on the same ground I had many quarts 
of them. I caught them in a pan con¬ 
taining kerosene and burned them. Can 
you tell me how to continue my good luck 
in the future? w. x. 
We should look for good luck, as you 
call it, where you found it before. You 
cannot expect to be entirely free from 
the potato bugs except now and then 
in some season when the weather condi¬ 
tions will destroy the eggs. You must 
prepare to fight these bugs one year with 
another. On a small patch your plan of 
knocking them off into a pan of kero¬ 
sene will answer. In larger fanning, 
of course, such work will not do. The 
hugs must be killed in some way in a 
wholesale manner. This is usually done 
by spraying or dusting the vines with a 
carrier which contains arsenate in some 
form. The liquid spray is made by mix¬ 
ing or dissolving the poison with water, 
and spraying it over the vines, just as 
the potato bugs appear. In the dust 
method the poison is mixed with plaster, 
flour, lime, or even road dust, and sifted 
over the vines while they are wet with 
dew. The object in either case is to in¬ 
duce the potato bugs to eat the poison 
as they gnaw at the leaf of the plant. 
As these hues are leaf eaters this method 
of killing them answers. With the suck¬ 
ers, or insects which bore into the leaf 
or stem, and suck out the juices, the 
poisons will not answer, but a spray of 
oil or some caustic substance is needed 
to kill them by contact from the outside. 
