New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-27

Mes accommodating, Ano ~ sa'u 10 'H' Us" VIZ :,
s.;rr : potatoes s-soel pots'oes and rev IN nn
-, ew rods Ct great plles OF this nuoS' VINCE
,0,,,.cor had had TO buy the privilege 0i pscmg
=, s,, I.ad, "Your crop woad be better you ssu
o' W -, AZ ,hs. muck, wen rotted and mixed With
,esr tcii .1rshofosp
a. r., wss his answer to our kindly
- ard he bert sgain over bis prohtlesS toll.
d,.'Tc.,red 10 talk Of what me mao neafa osO,e.
o''H''' -I 49,. uuck compressed Ike brick while
eoA "a then dried, burns Ike camel cosl,
,.:,r 80 an ssh highly charged With
A, ma w.lked over the immense pile, e1-
j. broad be-; around the pond, we picked up
a., ,rft A. large a. d mans hat, so light thst we
.s.,11 f,otbau with them. They were made up OF
s....s p.,a Of fbrous roots, which would burn ike
a. v.o. tviss and afford equal per cent Of potash
e., la .hey lie here and decay and waste away,
y. cxns,s Of the poor sandy soil adjoining WI, send
% y.,,no,t or Western New-York for lesched ashes,
@, ,Ls. they have proved good for the land, while
,Lc v,,us OF the muck they have only heard tell OF
hsso,s" They have also heard thtt It rs rizen 70
The ,sns ard therefore viii not listen aud learn bow
e uss AID make it most valuable.
Tupirg away from this pile of wasted wealth, we
Drove uie OF two across the plain to vislt sue
eessft. market truck farmer not garden trucker,
nut oes who grows field crops for market. To-day ne
MAJ dleojpg potatoes-"s very fair crop OF Meroers,
about 10 bushels per acre.. The tops were still very
g,eep and the farmer thought the tubers would have
ucresse< abou, quarter if left rpen, but then they
vou;d rot brig as much. The price to-day - %
bsne, The vines are pulled and tDbers shaken OIL
b.sween two lows ard the remainder forked out with
efye-pgonged fiat tined fork. Then two men pass
sorg picking all the marketable tubers into baske
ths. hods about three pecksthree being counted to
q bsrs-ssying, as they 60 along all the best in a
tnslsr basket to top off with" The best of course,
Always on top"
The snail potatoes left the ground are afserward
picked for pig feed yet sometime they are sold to the
baker, 70 piece out the superfne -four, and make it
e,rry more water, so as to answer the law that re-
uvnetbzesd TO be sold by weight.
Ths baskets being filed loaded upon wagon
flat onrs, solty, withfsed sndfo for man with two
bo,ses who starts in time to reach the market some
fine 10 the night where he sells his load early the
next non;rg and returns in time to rest and load up
again.
Tbs potaoe ground is sown as soon as cleared of
tie crop, to wheat and seeded TO clover.
why TO wheat-that is not profitable crop?'
"No but then we must SOW some grain to protect
TIE olover-it won't do without. know there is 10
profit in growing wheat.
is ttsre in growing Iudau corn, OF do you grow
tha. to eel green ?"
NO We grow il for feed
"Csn you afford to do that"
"We,l, no, don't know can in one sense. l
could buy It for less than it costs 10 grow it, take
one year with another
"Then why do you grow it 2"
"Wei, 1 dent know, rightly, as can answer thai.
We always have, and it kind o seems as though we
ought to grow what We want. shouldn't know how
70 begin to leave off raising corn.'
Whist is in that fields that cabbage"
"No; those are caufOwers for Fall crop
"You grow a Fall and Spring crop-how large =
Generally about FIVE acres. We place great de-
peIdence upon this crop, having been very lucky"
Lucky. is il in luck p"
why. yes, spose so-our neighbcrs say 20. We
have been successful. 1 suppose soil suits these
plants
What do you get for oaulihoweIs?'
owe lave sold some at dollar head-oten at so
OF GO cents and sometimes dezen for that money
"Do you lie them up to blanch them?'
"Nc We only break the leaves over the heads; it
would be too much wo,k to tie them over or shade
them il eny other way"
Wouldn't it make them better?'
ct would make them wbiter, and perhaps eel
little better, but, think, would not pay the extra
labor"
"Your market crop, then, is potatoes, csuiaOwers
ard -"
"Catba1es. Farmers ard gardeners sll have their
specialize and grow the sort of crops heirand s best
adapted TO- perhaps such their owners ara best
adapted to grow"
"Wbet 60 you manure with T.
CITY horses stabe manure, which We buy aud biog
- I.,.s nav m In ali sh.,
nie fiom here"
"DO you ever use muck, or how do you use your
nsnms-n compost ?"
"Nc, We put ii in Just as il comes. We have al
way, found il answers well in that way, and have
never t,sd any other. l have heard of muck, but
don know about it.. We haven't much time for ex-
psiimsnts.'
No doubt Of it, ner fr study, nor thought nor inquiry
abroad ef others, whether there was any better
couIse than this of their fathers; for found the
owner Of these ch acres last hard at work in bis
potato field as one of the rough Ishmen that lie hires
for do'lsr a day.
lie has 20 time TO think, or he would hnk 1t better
to compost or at least pile up the manure in hs barn-
yard from which he has dug drains to draw Oft the sur
plus water to enrich growth o. weeds and coarse grass
that only grows where there is excess OF richness
That LIQUID, drained into cistern filed with that
swamp muck, would make better manure than the
horse Groupings and stained straw bought in the city,
or better still the bsmysrd manure and that from the
city, ard muck from that great pile, all composted
together ard decomposed with the lime and sat mix
tuIe pumping back all the liquid that might drain from
the Pile until all become one homogeneous mass would
give hin his manure at half or less of its present cost
ara Il would contain no seeds Of weeds OF thist!e'
b,ovght h;ther in oats from Canada or OHIO.