■Uhe RURAl. NEW-YORKER 
647 
Planting Ends of Potatoes 
I own a couple of ■ ores of IuikI just 
oiitside the city, and have made arrange* 
iiients with some of my friends to let 
them plant potatoes, beans, etc. during 
the coming sea.son on different parts of 
this two acres. In talking with f ue of 
these friends yesterday I said that my 
mother, an old Holland lady, .stated that 
in the old country it was customary to 
out off the ends of the potatoes along at 
this time of the year, and .save them for 
jdanting, while the middle portion of the 
potato was use<l for food. Will you ad¬ 
vise me wlu'tlier it would be ])ractical to 
l»ut these seed i)otatoes or parts of seed 
pot.-itoes in cold storage until such time 
as I wish to jmt them in the ground, 
this idea being simply to keep the eye.s 
from growing from tlie potato as I am 
liothered eveiy year in this way? Some¬ 
times these potatoes will make shoots six 
inches long or more and usually get 
broken off before idanting. I have a 
large ice box I use in my residence, and 
which holds from 400 to 500 poxinds of 
ice. and if the scheme were practical I 
could put these potatoes in this box, 
which would act as a cold storage plant 
fnr this small lot of seed. ,T. p. p. 
Michigan. 
It is true that in the economies 
brought aboxit by this war, the jxlan of 
saving the seed end of the potato for 
jdanting has worked out with many. 
I'ersoiially we doubt if the stem end 
would be of any value for .seed jxotatoes. 
With some varix'ties the eyes or buds are 
well scattered all over the tuber, while 
in others they are crowdx'd together at 
the seed end, which is the end furthest 
from the vine. For instance, in varieties 
like the Rural New-Yorker, the bxids 
are almost all at one end. If this end 
were cut off and kept it would make good 
seed. The stem, however, very rarely 
has a live or vitsil bud, and in cutting 
such varieties we are obliged to remem¬ 
ber that, and usually cut the tuber 
lengthwise. In a variety like Irish Cob- 
hh'r, the buds at the stem end would be 
more likely to pi'ove vital, and it might 
l)ay with such varieties. Generally 
sjxeaking, however, we would not advise 
the u.se of the stem end cut from the 
tuber in this way. Your plan of kxH'p- 
ing these pieces in cold storage would, 
we believe, work out, if they could be 
kejxt reasonably dry and thus prcA-ent 
rotting. We should keep a cjuaiitity of 
'sulphur on hand, and sis the ends are cut 
oft’ we .should dust them lightly with the 
sulidiur, particularly on the cut surface. 
With this treatment t.iey would stand a 
better chance of keeping Avell in the cold 
storage. Of course thus plan would not 
work well in families where the supply 
of iiotatoes was pur<*hased tit different 
times, as they would be likely in that 
way to jiick up half a dozen different va¬ 
rieties which would not make a uniform 
idiiiit or tippearance in the field. 
Wood Ashes on Potatoes 
Will you give me your advice? I am 
thinking’ of planting a jiiece of ground for 
jiotatoes, jdowing in a good coat of ma¬ 
nure. and putting wo(k1 ashes in the hill. 
What is your ailvice about it? K. E. .T. 
.Maine. 
'Plus would be about the worst thing 
you could do in planting potatoes. The 
wood ashes in the hill would increase the 
scab and thus injure the crop. The stable 
manure alone would do this to .some ex¬ 
tent, but with the a.shes in the hill the 
tubers would be very poor. We must 
have explained this in print at least l.OEO 
times. We should use the ashes on coin 
and ti'y to use acid i»hosphate on pot;i- 
toes. 
Soot as an Absorbent 
I tow would .soot from bituminous coal 
act as an absorbent to fresh cow manure? 
Wylam, Ala. W. F. r. 
.Vdvising the use of a substanoe of va¬ 
riable composition is always rather risky, 
ami soft coal soot is rarely twice alike, 
but we cannot see how it could harm, un¬ 
less it is rather .strong of creo.sote and 
coal tar. The acids present would hold 
^ome of the ammonia, and .soot usually 
has some ammonia salts of its own. Your 
growing season has begun, why not try a 
small lot on some earl.v stuff? That will 
tell you more than several letters. 
F. p. c. 
I Tii.iziNc: Goai. A.siie.s. —In answer to 
the inquiries what to do with coal ashes, 
1 use them on the manure jiile, sifting 
them thinly all over it. They take up the 
moisture and gases. We do not have 
jiuich, so they do not get sticky or pa.sty 
in the jiile as they do used in the gutter 
behind the animals. V. T. i.. 
Massachu.setts. 
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