Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-03-05
THE FARM---
The Garden...The Orchard.
Potato Culture---N Mo. 2.

Wauy persons nh'- ie!I No'''''|
know which part Of the potato is the best
for seed, whether its middle portion or its
butt or seed end. And this curiosity has
led to the following experiments.
In 1s47, Charles Lee, Of Yates county, /
New York, planted whole potatoes and
also bu,t.eud and seed end cuttings Of the
Long Pink Eyes and large Flesh COlored .
varieties, in hills and in rows Of equal
length on the same ground, manurcd and
cultivated exactly alike, thus, to wit:
row, with Ions rnh-,e,, whole ro'''os, in each h'
do do DO DO DO
90 ,.,.. s..A.o,...s DO ss;.ts .:s. ends go
DO DO DO DO s..ed end. do
Aud he informs US that on harvesting the
crop be was as,onished in not being able
to discover the slightest difference between
the rows in any respect, either as it re-
garded the quantity or the qualify produ
ced by these different paintings. And he
assures US that he on each returning spring
repeated the came experiment and with
the same result until 1850, and then adds;
al. will be seen that when the seed
end merely answered for seed that at least
two.tairds of this valuable esculent is
saved; and may safely say that four
bushels of seed under ordinary circum-
stances, will be sufficieu. to plan, one acre
of ground aud the product will be equal
in amount to ,ha. produced from twenty
bushels of sAAd, ~heu the whole or any
number of potatoes to each hill are plant
ed" (See L. S. Agricul. Rep. OF lS49,
p. l06)
So john Brown, Of Belknap county, y.
Hampshire, planted one row Of potatoes
with nothing but the bu.t-cnds Of the
Pink Eye potato and another row with
nothing but seed-ends Of the same potato
tho seed ends being SO cut as to retain
about the one-tbird part of the entire po-
tato. And he at the same time and on
the same ground planted two similar rows
(,he rows being all of equal length with
the butt and seed-ends Of the Peach Bios
som potato. And the yield of potatoes in
each row in pounds weight was as follows {:
Pink Eyes-buts.ends 2l7 pounds.
do seed-ends l109 do
.Blossom-butt-. ends 225 do
dc seed-ends lse do
Thus showing, that, in bis case, the
bu.s-end seed produced tho largest yield.
much larger potatoes luau .nrs. .s 80
seed end one, and also appeared to riPen
from about week to ten days earlier than
the other-a resul, corresponding exactly
with like experiment previously made
by him. (Sec U.S.Ag Rep 1855 P. 2ls)
And "W. H"of Allegheny county New
York, 10 writing for the Dollar Newspaper
Of Phil.. recently Qs5O says he took
twelve pound Pink Eye potatoes and after
dividing them into Fix parcels as nearly
as be could, cut and planted them as fol-
lows, to wit No l, consisting of two
whole potatoes into two bills, one in each
hill No. ., potatoes were cut into two
pieces, crcsswise, and planted half potato
to each hill. No. 8, potatoes were cut
lengthwise and planted like No. 2. No.
4, potatoes were cut into quarters length
wise and planted two quarters to hill
and six inches apart in the hill. No. 5,
potatoes were also quartered and planted
one quarter to each hill, and No. 6, pota-
toes were cut into twenty pieces and plan
ted one piece to each hill. Aud the yield
Of stalks and potatoes of these paintings
ON the same ground and under the same
culture was as follows, to wit: