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with these machines as by hand, so more 
sprayings tire required. He made the 
first spraying about July 1 and immedi¬ 
ately went over the vines in the opposite 
direction in order to cover the foliage uni¬ 
formly with the spray. Thereafter, when 
spraying, he went each time in the oppo¬ 
site direction from the previous spraying, 
for the same purpose. 
Treating For Scar. —Mr. Fagan was 
somewhat apprehensive of the powdery 
and the ordinary scab, so he asked mo to 
come up and show him how to treat his 
seed, as he had not been in the habit of 
doing this. As lie plants about 20 acres, 
I at first thought of using formalin fumes, 
as a less cumbersome method, but as I had 
never tried this, finally decided against 
it on account of the apparent danger of 
“pitting,” recently described by Stewart, 
of the Geneva, N. Y., Station. I was 
afterwards glad I did not try it, since 
by means of five barrels of formalin so¬ 
lution Mr. Fagan was able to treat 70 
bushels in one day. The way lie did this 
The Final Yield. —At the last dig¬ 
ging the winter measured off one hundred 
feet of the rows in two different fields and 
weighed the potatoes from them, which 
were nearly all firsts, and on the basis of 
these measurements and weights Mr. Fa¬ 
gan’s potatoes gave an average of 334 
bushels per acre. This is possibly a lit¬ 
tle high for the average yield for the 
entire 20 acres, since he estimated he 
would harvest somewhere around 6,000 
bushels altogether. Now, no one can 
claim this as a record-breaking yield, but, 
as I said at the start, it does very well 
for Connecticut, and was entirely satis¬ 
factory to Mr. Fagan, especially when 
compared with tin- results of the last few 
years. o. p. clinton. 
Disposing of Stones. 
AST year The R. N.-Y. asked for in¬ 
formation concerning a tool for clear¬ 
ing stones, the size of a large hand, 
from about six acres. The inquirer is ad¬ 
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of which is to “plow out a deep ditch and 
then rake or throw the stones into it.” 
From personal experience, I would not 
follow this plan again. If the ditch is 
dug, it shod Id he where no crop will over 
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was to use oho pint or pound of formalin 
to 30 gallons of water for each barrel. 
This allowed room for two bushels of 
potatoes, in a coarse gunny sack, to be 
treated in each barrel, and these were 
left there for from 1*4 to two hours and 
then removed to the barn floor to dry out, 
and the operation repeated on a fresh lot. 
As the water in the barrels was used up, 
it was replenished from an extra barrel 
containing the formalin solution some¬ 
what stronger to allow for evaporation. 
In this way the same water was used 
several times during th<> day. but a solu¬ 
tion was made up fresh the next day fot 
similar use. No injury at all resulted 
from this treatment, and the method did 
not prove as tedious as expected. 
Growing Conditions. —To the factors 
already mentioned as contributing to the 
excellent yield of Eagan's crop, namely, 
a favorable growing season as regards 
moisture, the treatment of the seed to¬ 
ilers, and tin 1 repeated spraying of the 
vines with Bordeaux mixture (containing 
poison for the beetles when required), 
may be added two others; high fertiliza¬ 
tion of the fields and their careful and re¬ 
peated cultivation during the growing 
season. Mr. Fagan does not hesitate to 
apply plenty of a complete artificial fer¬ 
tilizer. but does not use much manure, 
as it is not available. lie also practices 
rotation. His fields are partly on low, 
level, rather moist and rich land, and 
partly on higher, more gravelly land, apt 
to dry out during droughts. On both 
kinds of land the potatoes did well this 
year. 
Conditions In Storage. The tubers 
did not rot either before or after harvest, 
except in one ease, due to bad storage 
conditions. 1 visited the fields during 
October, when the last were being dug, 
and saw only two rotten tubers dug out, 
and these were rotting from the late blight. 
The potatoes that rotted in storage were 
injured by bacteria. Mr. Fagan has poor 
facilities for storage, but cannot market 
all his potatoes as soon as dug. lie at¬ 
tempted to store those first dug in a long 
pit out of doors, covered with straw and 
earth. This was late in September. 
While such a method may he feasible in 
seasons when the early Fall is cool, it 
certainly was not last year, when late 
September was the hottest on record. 
The heat and moisture held in by their 
covering caused these stored potatoes to 
decay badly. 
he grown again, or else be so deep that 
all stones will he below the frost 1 iin*. 
Ten years ago I helped clear up a piece 
of stony, stumpy land, which was covered 
with deep pits, supposed to have been 
where the wild Indians stored their pota¬ 
toes during the Winter. These pits were 
four or five feet deep, and seemed to he 
ideal places in which to dump the stones 
so that they would never he seen again. 
In fact, they kept out of sight for eight 
years, but two years ago the plow began 
to strike the top stones, and now I have 
seen a great many of the same rocks that 
were buried four and five feet deep 10 
years ago. The freezing and thawing of 
the ground brought the stones to the sur¬ 
face, and the same thing will happen 
whenever they are above the frost line. 
In some places in New York and Michi¬ 
gan stones would have to he buried pretty 
deeply in order to escape the heaving 
caused by the alternate thawing and 
freezing. 
We tried most of the stone-rakers rec¬ 
ommended. hut did not find any of them 
very satisfactory. I also believe that a 
tool made like a hay-rake with heavier 
tooth, would answer for st tr.es the size 
of a large hand, but 1 have never s n en 
such a tool or the advertisement of one. 
With stones of that size, the problem of 
disposing of them is not very difficult 
unless they are especially numerous. 
Rending down to pick them up becomes 
very tiresome before night, and one must 
tighten his belt pretty often. We found 
that the best way to pick these stones 
was with a team and two men. each man 
armed with a short-handled dungfork. 
The fork saves bending over. Fork-pick¬ 
ing is much easier than hand-picking, and 
as long as the stones must be removed 
with a wagon or stone-boat anyway, 
throwing them directly onto the wagon 
saves an extra handling. 
Most of our stories were used in build¬ 
ings or wore sold to the township for 
road construction. However, where this 
was impossible, some of the farmers piled 
up the stones, planted grapevines around 
the edge of the pile, and while a roek- 
pile is not the best form of grape trellis, 
it serves the purpose and keeps the stones 
from becoming unsightly. Any other vine 
may be used in the same way. 
Michigan. i. J. mathews. 
In London: “Waiter! Vienna steak, 
please!” “’Ush, sir; we calls ’em Petro- 
grad patties now, sir!”—Bystander. 
