Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-04-28
farmsr's department,
NEW SUBSTITUTE ron THE PorAroEs.


translates IRON 'ne nee"e & S.o'''eSae Sae.otarv
of tbe Earmer,s Club. NY.
n,osoorr, p,r,r,. fu,noce of c5;nol
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New observations reia.i.e 70 It
we i've a. .linc wnen !. Is 1os necsssy s:',s;ayy
10 strugeie 'oreVer sea,nse % pvPu'ar, p,.Jeo''e
Us 10 ne" Gnu useiu' .nlns ~ y =, onsno
IL SOME ,ess.ance Is PI,oJ ,nnn - aro now
.ry Populauon, y. s,,hono ens ., mn onoonrono
nulncIuse .ao r,, ~
"e" anu useiui P,""'
The great amelioration III our state py the
use of the most perfect types OF race, oor-
rowed from our neighbors and elsewhere, are
incontestible proofs IN advance. Culture,
drainage NC, are SO many happy reforms IN
our domestic affairs, ana In our comforts ana
manners.
We do not Halter ourselves with making
popu,ar Nv 'He iL's' @ onse.' .ne .ynome = Cn'.
w pI' We ny, uH nope .na. Tvs il',oaut.iou "
Sos sor nso,,. t,co S,,,,,,pg ,,eo,.r ". III
nas iol ..".g , ~ ~: "ana.1e yes ..s li'ui'-
oy msn, assall 'nis new DosNaS' pu, perhaps
si soa ~ ''"' W. ""' "0"'e'oi'n "o' ieaf
'''',.iue' E;''a A.. g.. r..
rive years ago the hrst D,oscored bdtatas
was oroug1r 10 Us. III mas attracted atten'
s'on ~" u'lnos. everywhere, anu the caiis
,ot .. 'HeNi W pi"l' "fe huserous from I'LL quar-
WI
~ ','' " .'',a'"s '"en
:. towards the mlddle oil April, when L be-
heVed mat We should have no more frost, l
planted some OF them IN pieces and whole, IN
good light garden beds, at the Museum OF
Natural History. set them about twenty
lnches apart every way: this was wrong
they should have been set much nearer to-
gether. Ihe future alone VIII teach us what
tIecC our climate NAV have uDOn II, All
tnat can now say is, that my plants have
TINS year 1924 grown well, their long shoots
Seing very vigorous and covered with tnlck
iolage' Ihey produced many howers (aii OF
"hich were male) ABOUT the beginning oi
SuguSt. AT the END OF August, the growth
VI " s.alkS ana ieaves ceased ana they assumed
'nat yeliowlsh hue which indicated, after the
mluaie oil september, the approaching matur-
~! VI the tuoercies.
set apart some square feet Of the plants
for other experiments, while two of my lots
were covered, one with strong poles about ten
feet long, the other with poles about seven or
eight feet long. The branches and stalks of
the lgname twine around these poles as beans
do, and soon run beyond the length of their
poles.
In the third lot let them have their own
way and the vines did not root at their joints,
and twisting together, grew nearly as long as
those on their poles.
The tubers which 1 planted whole. gave
remarkably vigorous plants, each of which
gave new tuber-of these, two were quite
large. when pulled, one weighed nearly
three pounds, kllo. SOU the other l kilo
iGo. Ihe third was injured by the insect
Hd"neton. The original batatas which l
Rlahted were stili on, very much wrnkled.-
Inc oeds oil cut tubers did not produce well,
weighing on an average not over quarter OF
pound.
vi tne whoie, tho result was from twenty
elgnt plants each gHing one tuber-on an
average tne tupers weighed about hye ounces
each' $40 qrs. 49, we found the whole
from hity-seVen plants, seventeen kilogram.
mes or nearly iorty-three pounds weight OF
'u9ers.
Inc result OF these experiments shows,
,cat hectare can produce 5000, kllogramme
oi ighame, OF tnat an acre may yield some
ssnihg IKE Two hundred bushels. we think,
from what we have seen OF the growth, that
ten inches apart every way Will be room
enough ior the ro0t-ior TINS plant seems 10
nHe nH upon tne am 1y It's vines ana ieaves.---
In, Inc product Oh tuoers was nearly double our