New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-10


,,a nm !, y,nnnds, where the soil " nasnra,y
bu. u,u mold the people buying Cabbage
nch ns taS ,bot W, re imported from AIo NY Gu Nv
~ cabb,pcs can be grown az 'hc IT, mr. nro6iablo
acre, wlcn az rbeat Speaking Of wheat II the cruz
Iaire az The next meeting, ~l speas uP'Ih ave
cultivation of wheat u,v a Tint tie Bata'is Ccrea6ca
dlseo, ,bat ruined wheat culture IN FRA, &c many
an ss go i now spreading over canada 10 return
10 gardens Every farmer snvuI INV IN he nm
~ in Aueust and the glass put on; 1t wal heat 20 hot
me ;neects will be destroyed. Glass should come To- a
o;r nj the lower edge, so as not TO collect water IN
globples which act a. Lenses and nlure plants. Very
ses Of the really good farmers of this country grow
,Le finer KINDS of vegetables. They look upon them
as only suited to city usein feet, decacies that they
have nothing to do WITH yet willing enough to eat
them. In Canada, the principal food is pork and
beans-and for change, beans and ork-during the
Winter until people get hungry enough for vegetable
food 10 eat anything green except the window blinds.
Vint,ring Roots-Pota,oes, 8c.-A gentleman re-
lated that his carrots wntercd cafe IN the ground IN
New.Jeney last Winter.
Mr.. Lowe SAID he the same thing in Canada.
Aleo cabbage ard potatoes, but they We're under deep
snow. In Keeping potatoes in heaps, the best plan il
IL put most OF the straw usually used outside the
dirt.
A question was asked: own potatoes keep that
are put up wet"
Judge tIyIYGsToy-Yes, never dry mine, and
have put them up quite wet and they keep well.
a
taocs 10 the light they more injured by that than
any amount OF moisture.
Mr. SEARS, Of the Phalanx, New jersey, said they
had expen epted largely as to the best manner of pre-
venting potatoes from rotting, and found that they
kept best when taken immediately from the field "a
soon as dug and put in Slated bins cellar, where
the air could circulate through the ple but light
ever come to them. He never observed any difference
in their keeping whether put up wet or dry. Their
potatoes grew in dry land, the soil of which did not
adhere much to the tuhers.
Prof Nash of Amherst, Mass, had long been salts
fed that potatoes never should be exposed to the
light Many farmers are in the practice Of summing
their potatoes all day after they dug. 1t is bad
practce-no matter how damp they are, or how much
dht adheres to them. My father used to raise large
crops Of potatoes, and bis method was to have them
put in carts fast dug and hauled to the house
and dumped into shute that led down to the bin in
the cellar In the Spring the potatoes under the shute
found bu'ied in earth, and were always the most
sound and good and yet bad always been in damp
soil. They often found fresh in May as they
were when dug in October. Probably the true ecOnO-
my Of growing potatoes is to plant them in light land
on inverted turf and only calculate upon light crop
They certainly less liable to rot in such land than
in richer soil. would plant them in fourinch fur
rows and cover them with harrow, and just as the
plants begin to look out give them another narrowing
and afterward hoe once, but raise no hills good
afferdressing may be made by mixing four bushels of
ashes bushel Of plaster aud half bushel Of salt
and give twelve to twenty bushels TO the acre.
Judge MEIGs-If the soil is wet, / would hill; if
dry, level culture will DO
Connecticut farmer said be planted piece Of
under drained swamp, half in ridges and one half
fat and that the first produced good CROP while the
fat culture was decided failure
ROBERT L. PELL-Col. Muir Of Scotland has pro-
duced potatoes from clay dug forty feet below the
face This contradicts the idea Of the potato being
indigenous solely to America.
Prof NAsH-Forty years ago the people Of Deer
field Mass adopted the level system of potato Gull
ture because experience taught them far prefer
able; vet so slow are farmers to adopt new systems
that the plan has not spread out fifteen mile, from the
original starting point. / do fully believe that the
loss in billing and potatoes in Massachusetts, dur
ing the 225 years that it has been practiced both in
loss of labor and productiveness, would make q sum
sufficient to purchase the whole State both real and
personal property.
ROBERT L. PELL-I planted potatoes on a drained
swamp aud fonnd that the rows the drains were
far superior TO the Others From further experiment.
became Satisfied that the effect produced by the
circulation of air through the drains and the soil.
raised 425 bushels per acre; used no manure, be-
cause the soil was that of bogswamp. / afterward
put 200 bushels of lime per acre, and then hauled out
and used the muck and found it as good as manure.
Mr.. LOWE said that raw muck put upon sandy lard
makes good manure for potatoes So does spent tan
bark.
Mr.. PELL-Near Glasgow, Scotland, 600 bushels
per acre of potatoes have been raised by liquid ma
nure; but the greatest effect of liquid manure was
upon Ear, Derbys estate, where az the several cut
tpgs twelve feet of grass were obtained that would
weigh nearly 100 tuns, green. Mr.. Pell then read
paper upon farm buildings, and the Club adjourned to
the IL ird Tuesday in May.