Oie RURAL NEW-YORKER 
371 
Garden and Farm Notes 
Late Planted Potatoes 
In many soctions of the country the 
planting of potatoes very late in the sea¬ 
son is becoming more and more popular. 
Tlie growers have learned that those po¬ 
tatoes which are planted in May or 
.Tune in the latitude of Philadelphia 
cannot produce a heavy yield, hecau.se 
tlie burning sun of midsummer destroys 
the foliage. However, those planted in 
late Summer will produce a fine crop for 
market. The illustration given is that 
of a field f>f Peach Plow potatoes 
planted July 17 at E. Vineland. X. J. 
The picture was taken on Sept. 12, 
and the yield obtained at digging time 
wa.s 2S0 bushels per acre. 
To get strong germination with the 
seed potatoes which are use<] in the late 
Summer it is advisable to use potatoes 
which have been held in cold storage 
possible to buy stable manure here, the 
fanners refusing to sell, .and the people 
who had one or two horses, have bought 
cars instead, so we smalt gardeners and 
the sparrows are left. In the Spring 
and Fall I can get the night .soil from 
the cleaning of vaults. Is it of value 
enough to do this, and how should it be 
treated? j, ii. is. 
Brookfield, Mass. 
We should keep up your plan of alter¬ 
nating these crops, so as to have the po¬ 
tatoes on fresh land each year. A good 
plan would he to scatter the seed of a 
cover crop like rye and clover in the 
corn each year, just before the last cul¬ 
tivation, This would give you consider¬ 
able to plow under the following year for 
the potatoes: and fertilizer in Connec¬ 
tion with this green crop would take 
care of the manure question. We .should 
use one of the regular mixcsl potato fer¬ 
tilizers now on the market. Regarding 
A Field of Late Planted Potatoes in South Jersey 
from e.trly Spring until about 10 days 
or two weeks before they arc to be 
pliinted in late Summer. Potatoes for 
seed are sometimes u.sed which were dug 
very early from a very e.arly crop giovu 
that Summer, These, too, arc spread 
out .so that air and light i.s accessible to 
every i)otato, but not direct sunlight. 
These potatoes germinate quite well 
whim planted a few weeks later, and 
another thing which seeing to encourage 
geiinination is to slice oil' a bit of each 
seed jxitato or to injure them, when they 
are first dug. 
Perfect stands are most easily .secured 
when the seed has been held from Spring 
in cold storage. The vine.s grow rapidly 
during late Summer and potatoes de¬ 
velop fast. Even after frost kills the 
vines, the size of the tubers increases 
cunsider.ably. Many large potato grow¬ 
ers are findin.g that the late-grown crop 
makes the very finest' seed for the fol¬ 
lowing year, for either the early Siiring 
or late Summer planting.s, because it is 
remarkably fi-ee from disease, . full of 
energy jind true to name. One rea.son 
why home-grown seed has been so un¬ 
satisfactory where the seasons were long 
was because the grower.s had invariably 
jilanted their entire planting early. Thus 
the home-gi’own .seed did not got dug un¬ 
til two lull iiKintlis after the vines had 
died down. During the meantime the 
seed had laid in the hot soil, losing its 
energy and productiveness. Nothern- 
grown seed potatoes grow vdiere the 
season is short, therefore, they are 
.somewhat green and full of energy and 
of jiroductiveness when stored for the 
Wintei*. Therefore, the late-planted po¬ 
tatoes are proving to be not only a good 
money crop, but an excellent way to 
keeii the cost of the seed at home while 
the grower has something to plant in 
which he can place full confidence. 
K. W. PE HAUN. 
the night .soil, this is generally worth 
about 80% of the value of ordinary 
manure, depending, of course, upon the 
amount of liquid with it, and some other 
conditions. This manure will be far bet¬ 
ter for the corn than for the iiotatoes. 
Our plan would be to mix it in a c*om- 
post, with black soil, old sods, or any 
other trash you can got, .scattering land 
plaster through the compo.st heap as it 
is made up. The value of this material 
is generally over-estimated, .and we 
should not want to use it for potatoes 
and similar crops, but for crops that 
grow above ground it will helj). 
Top-dressing a Lawn 
Will it burn a lawn on sandy .soil to 
top-dress air-slaked lime, ahso a 2-0-8 
fertilizer? The .soil needs both; the lime 
to help the growth of ^ bite clover; the 
fertilizer for general effect. Which .should 
be applied first and is it better to do it 
now or in early Sjiring before growth 
starts? What qmuitity of each should 
I apply iKu- .sipiare yard? j. m. c. 
Tottenville, N. Y. 
The lime should ])e applied at as early 
a date .as possible, and may be used at 
the ratio of two to four pounds to the 
.square yard of surface. There is no 
danger of air-slaked lime burning the 
lawn. The fertilizer can be applied 
about the time the grass starts growth 
in early Spring, and again about mid¬ 
summer, using about two pound.s to the 
square yard of surfaie. By making two 
applications as .suggested above, the 
writer has experienced better results, 
with le.ss danger of injury than when 
the entire quantity is m.ade at once. The 
best Jiuthoritii'S on lawn fertilizing 
reccomend the following foianula as tlie 
best for lawns; Three per cent, nitrogen, 
six to eight jier cent, phosphoric .acid, 
and about eight jier cent, potash. There¬ 
fore, the fertilizer you propose using is 
not far out of the way. and will an¬ 
swer very well. k. 
Alternating Corn and Potatoes 
I have tlu’ce acres of wild land grown 
up to wild cherry ami sumac. In 1015 
I cleared half of this and planted sweet 
corn and potatoes, using commercial fer¬ 
tilizers. In lOlt; I planted the same, 
planting the corn wliere the iiotatoes 
were, and the imtatoes where the corn 
was. Would it pay to change the corn 
and potatoes again? M hat would be the 
be.st fertilizer to use? It is almost im- 
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hi.s_ health good?” “Tain’t much now. 
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“I dunno: sometimes I think fai-miu’ 
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