Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-04-25

10 oz-clcan, dry, and handsome, without
spot or blernisb. The first eight hills [oc-
cupyipg four fact in the row produced
busbeI. The produc. Of the best eye or
sct weighing 81 lbs. OF the hills with
two sets (making three feet in the row.
the best weighed lbs. The largest po.a-
to weighed % oz.-JouN WETHERLY,
near Genera, ". y
On the Goth of May last planted one
potato of the California variety, of ordina-
~ size, with 20 eyes-put one eye in
hill. Soil, clay and . mixture of sand.
Put small sboveifull of hog manure in
each hill and dropped the seed upon it.
They came up with good strong stalk
and grew very rank. hocd them twice.
The two rows ran east and west, and the
south row was considerably the best. I
dug from the one potato planted tro and
hree-eighh bushels, weighing l3la lbs
l.. H. ABELL: GSl1es.
Soil, sandy loan, unplowed for eight
years. Broke it up the 10th Of April,
nine inches deep. l narrowed it both
ways, and marked one way As deep As I
could and not disturb the sod. chose .
Merino potato, from which cut GO eyes;
planted the 25th of May, two eyes in .
hi! 5. feet apart, and manured in the hill
with fiue stable manure. As soon as they
came up run the cultivator through both
ways, and dressed them out, but did not
hill them, as do not approve of hilling
corn or potatoes. This potato was planted
in my corn6eld and both were cultivated
alike, keeping the ground well stirred With
the cultivator and pillow. The product dug
on the 10Th Of Oct, was Q bushels and ID
quarts, weighing l24 lbs.-Jos. NJ. How
LAND, Macedon, n. ].
may not have the correct name fer the
variety cbo7o for ,h;. .~mpAtition. They
are longish red potato, extensively raised
here-some call them the Philadelphia
Reds. Soil sandy loan. Manure, pou-
drette, one pint in bill cut one eye on
. piece, and two pieces to the hill Plsu-
ted May Gath, and harvested Sept Goth.
Weighed when dry, and free from dirt.
39l lbs.-A. N. LANaDoN, Verona, N r.
The variety I planted is called the Jen-
ny Lind, or Wood Potato. 1t weighed
two pounds. I cut i: into thirty two pieces,
most of them having but one eye on them;
the hills about three and q half feet. The
coil, sandy loan green-sward, plowed up
the first day of June, and the potato plan
ted the second day, with one shovelful Of
weak barn yard manure to . hill hoed
twice, and dug the 18th of October Pro-
duet 35s lbs, or l9 quarts. My object
was to ascertain how much it would pro-
duce with ordinary rather than ertraordi-
nary culture-JoEL MARBLE, Poridcnce,
r.
1 cut my potato in fifteen pieces put
three pieces in hill planted June 1st;
hoed once; dug the second day of October,
one-half bushel, good rounding measure.
The soil is rather black loam. For the
las; three years have adopted the plan
of marking my potato ground with corn.
marker. drop my potatoes on the ground
and cover them. I have had no potato
rot since left off furrowiug with the pillow.
TT LII .oIo,xoJ r., tbo n,or V,r1 M
tato.-T B. STANTON, Jamesrine, Onon-
daga Co., " Y.
On the Oath of May last, I cut White
Mercer potato in AZ pieces, and planted
the pieces in row about II inches apart.
| manured tbs ground (Which was a sandy
loaml with moderate portion Of hog-pen
manure, dug in with the spade, after which
put sprinkling Of guano along the row,
before planting the potato. On the Goth
Of May, also cut common Mercer in 81
pieces aud planted the pieces about Is in
ches apart on the same kind of ground ~
the other, which was moderately manured
with hog-pen manure and leachsd ashes,
dug in as before, with sprinkling Of gu
ano along the row before planting The
pieces were small, so I planted them shall
low. After the potatoes we're up | divided
the sprouts where there was more than
one in place, and made some addition to
the length of the row, but these were
mostly backward and did not come to ma
turity hoed both kinds of potatoes sew
eral times through the summer with tho
hand-hoe, raising the ground little about
the roots, and twice while the plants wero
small put little liquid manure about
them. dug the potatoes on the 18th Of
September, and had them weighed the
same day-ths White Mercer yielding
26i lbs, and the Common Mercer yielding
27 lbs, of clean potatoes.-NArHAN ELY,
LumJerriHe, Bucks Co., Pa.
The variety chosen was the Merino'
which planted in small spot in the gar
xha ground WAS