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pieces. Then I fake a spade and drive it 
down into the mellow soil, push it ahead 
so as to open a little hole, drop a seed 
piece behind the spade, and with a quick 
jerk pull it out and let the soil fall back 
over the seed piece. In dry soil I would 
then step on the top to firm the soil 
around the seed piece, but this soil is 
and such firming is not needed. 
We plant in this way, about 18 in. apart 
along the line, and I have seed enough for 
three rows. That is a quick way of 
planting a small piece of land, and where 
the soil is mellow and rich I get a larger 
yield in that way than by any other 
method. I am also going to plant more 
of that blight-proof potato—Northern 
Spy. We have fresh seed from Nova 
Scotia this year. For three years this 
variety has proved blight-proof; that is, 
it has kept green and growing up to 
frost, while other varieties fell down and 
surrendered to blight. Last year this re¬ 
sistant quality proved unfortunate. I 
fertilized heavily with chicken manure, 
and Northern Spy kept right on making 
vine until frost killed it—apparently 
never considering the plan of making tu¬ 
bers. The result was a collection of 
vines six feet or more in length, but no 
tubers larger than a hen’s egg. Along¬ 
side of Northern Spy, Cobbler and Green 
Mountain went down with blight, but 
they seemed to consider the futility of 
life, and started in early to make good 
tubers, and while they died before their 
time, their works live after them in the 
shape of a good crop. The Northern Spy 
seemed to take no thought for the mor¬ 
row ; with an abundance of chicken ma¬ 
nure and reasonable moisture they con¬ 
cluded to “eat, drink and be merry,” so 
as to show the world what great vines 
they could produce. They kept this right 
up till frost without considering that it is 
the life object of a potato to work under¬ 
ground as well as above. I shall give 
them a great test this year. Out back of 
the woodshed is a perfect blight trap. 
The sun beats down on it on hot days, 
there is little circulation of air, and on 
muggy days there is a full mug of dis¬ 
ease germs. I’ll put Northern Spy in 
there with only a moderate feeding, and 
give it the supreme test. It must get 
over the idea that it can safely wait until 
Christmas before starting to make tubers. 
H. w. c. 
(To P»e Continued) 
Garden Alfalfa Variety Test 
At the suggestion of our Farm Bureau 
I planted three rows of Alfalfa side by 
side, each row 40 ft. in length. The va 
rieties were Argentine, common or stand¬ 
ard, and Grimm. This latter I procured 
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rieties were planted Aug. 18, 1922. The 
rows were 15 in. apart. 
There were four cuttings in 1923, the 
last on Oct. 17. The total weights of 
these cuttings were, Argentine, 26% lbs., 
common, 3314 lbs., and Grimm, 43 lbs. 
The rows were kept well cultivated, and 
were mulched last Fall. At this date. 
May 1, 1924, the Argentine looks very 
brown and unpromising, the standard 
just fair, while the Grimm stands up like 
a sturdy green hedge. 
The reason this demonstration was 
made is because there is such a great 
quantity of this southern seed shipped 
into this county, and offered at an at¬ 
tractive discount in price, so that it is 
both sold and sown with great loss to all 
who use it, and who often do not know 
bow , unfit it is for our climatic condi¬ 
tions. The total loss to the whole agri¬ 
cultural business from this source is an 
added burden to our already overtaxed 
people. h. E. cox. 
Monroe Co., N. Y. 
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