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fHE RURAL NEW-VORKER 
March 0, 
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These cuts are made from photos 
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trees from Spring of 1913 
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(Continued from page 331) 
a matter of fitting tlie soil properly. The 
planting will average four inches deep— 
seed pieces 13 inches apart in the row 
and rows three feet apart. The fertilizer 
is applied after plan-tiny and is used in a 
strip 14 inches wide on the row and har¬ 
rowed in thus putting the fertilizer 
above the seed. The rule is to use 100 
pounds of high-grade fertilizer to each 
bushel of seed. 
Starting in 1901 Mr. Fagan raised 
three .acres of potatoes which gave 000 
bushels—tints showing that the farm con¬ 
tained good natural potato soil. There 
was a gradual increase of acreage—1901 
11 acres and 2.400 bushels with heavy 
loss from rot. In 1907 15 acres gave 
4.500 bushels, and 1912 15 acres again 
2,SOI) bushels a very dry year. Another 
dry season came in 1913, and 11 acres 
produced 2.000 bushels. 
Then Mr. Fagan made up his mind to 
break the record, and he decided to go to 
of powdery scab in seed potatoes, to find 
the number of farmers who had cut down 
on the amount of potatoes grown. This 
was especially true of the market garden 
district around New Haven, where some 
of the farmers were not even planting po¬ 
tatoes for their own use. Now, just as a 
lack of moisture during July and August 
may prove serious to a potato crop, so 
may an over-supply be equally as bad. 
This is because continued rainy and mug¬ 
gy weather during these months brings 
on the late blight. If the blight does not 
develop early enough to kill the vines pre¬ 
maturely and cut down the yield, it still 
may do much damage by rotting the tu¬ 
bers of an otherwise satisfactory crop., 
Such a period occurred during the years 
when the writer first came to the State, 
about 1902-1905. During the past sea¬ 
son, however, the amount and distribu¬ 
tion of rain was such as to develop a 
big crop of potatoes, the best for several 
years. At one time it. looked as if th- 
rain of the latter part of July and early 
August would develop the blight, blit ap¬ 
parently in most places the blight did 
not get a good start. We had a few 
A POTATO (’HOP ON CANADA PRAIIHI). 
school. You ask him to name the wisest 
potato teacher in the country and ho will 
say without hesitation Prof. (J. P. Clin¬ 
ton of the Experiment Station. The crop 
was grown under Prof. Clinton’s advice 
and suggestion, and Mr. Fagan did just 
what it<‘ was told whether it agreed with 
his experience or not. As a result ho 
raised (5.0(H) bushels, most of which sold 
at 70 cents or better per bushel. We 
will now lot Prof. Clinton toll how the 
crop was handled to keep it free from in¬ 
sects and disease, and constantly grow¬ 
ing. The result of this crop ought to 
make the country for miles around Farm¬ 
ington a noted potato section. We hard¬ 
ly know whether to call Mr. Fagan the 
“potato king” of Connecticut or notv 
Medical Treatment for Potatoes. 
Connecticut Conditions. —I would 
state that in my opinion Mr. Fagan’s 
large crop was due. to two primary fac¬ 
tors. namely, excellent attention by a 
good farmer, and sufficient water supply 
on the part of the good Lord. As most 
farmers know, Connecticut lays no es¬ 
pecial claim to be the leading potato 
State of the country so far as big yields 
are concerned. We road of 400 bushels 
and upward per acre as being raised else¬ 
where, but rarely litis a Connecticut fann¬ 
er the audacity to claim much over 200 
bushels. I remember the official figures 
of the Government some years ago gave 
iltt' average yield for the State as about 
100 bushels per acre. When a farmer 
wants to brag, however, he says that lie 
grew 200 bushels. If we do not grow the 
biggest crops, we certainly do grow fine, 
mealy potatoes, as good as grown any¬ 
where in my opinion, and certainly much 
superior to the soggy potatoes I used to 
see grown and sold in Illinois some years 
ago. 
The Moisture Supply. —Water, per¬ 
haps more than any other single factor, 
is what determines the yield of potatoes 
in this State. During the past four or 
more years previous to this season, there 
has been a lack of moisture for the po¬ 
tato crops during the critical growing 
months of July and August. Consequent¬ 
ly, serious injury by tip-burn and early 
death of the vines have resulted, with 
subsequent small yields. The effect pro¬ 
duced upon tilt* crop has been so discour¬ 
aging that 1 was surprised last Spring, 
when I made an inspection trip in quest 
complaints of rotting tubers which evi¬ 
dently were caused by the blight, but on 
the whole there was no serious injury. 
Treatment For Blight. —During the 
past nine years the writer litis carried 
mi spraying experiments for blight tit the 
Station Farm near New Ilaven, and 
while blight has not caused any particu¬ 
lar injury during that time, and has only 
rarely been found on the leaves, still tho 
sprayed vines have always given a great¬ 
er yield than the unsprayed. We have 
always held that this was due to the les¬ 
sening of tip-burn, as the sprayed vines 
remain green longer than the unsprayed, 
tin average perhaps of one or two weeks. 
We have also held that this delayed tip- 
lmrn was due to the spray sediment on 
the leaf surface preventing the excessiva 
loss of water. Recently, however. Dr. 
Duggar and Mr. Cooley of the Missouri 
Botanical Carden came forth with lab¬ 
oratory experiments that seem to show 
that, if anything, the sprayed leaves of 
plants lose more water than the im- 
sprayed. But, whatever the explanation, 
we know from experience that the spray¬ 
ed vines give an increased yield even 
when no especial injury is caused by 
either early or late blight. 
Spraying. —Now, its to Mr. Fagan’s 
potatoes. I knew that he usually sprayed 
his potatoes; indeed, no one in the State, 
ns far as I am aware, hits sprayed more 
thoroughly with Bordeaux mixture than 
he. We hear much about spraying with 
Bordeaux as being the common practice 
in the Aroostook potato district of Maine, 
though it seems to be the exception in 
this Stiite. Therefore I did not hesitate 
to recommend spraying to Mr. Fagan, 
and be did not hesitate to spray as often 
as necessary. I believe in homemade 
Bordeaux, because it is less expensive 
and apparently more efficient. So till I 
did was to show Mr. Fagan how to make 
stock solutions so that he could spray his 
potatoes with Bordeaux mixture of the 
4-4-50 strength. In these stock solutions 
we merely dissolve copper sulphate at 
the rate of a pound per gallon in one 
barrel and slake the lime in another bar¬ 
rel, finally diluting it so that it also con¬ 
tains a pound to the gallon. From these 
the Bordeaux is made up as needed. I 
believe Mr. Fagan went over the field 
about nine times, using a traction power 
sprayer. One cannot do as good work 
(Concluded on page S-'/fi.) 
