The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-05-18

Select sweet upland: a sandy loan. If you
have it, is perhaps the best; rather stiff
loan will answer, or even q somewhat clay
ey soil. if not wet; black swamp lard
VIII do, if drained beforehand, and pretty
heavily asbed in the bill at the time Of
planting. We have known some of the
best crops TO be grown on peaty swamp
land thus treated. But supposing your
choice to be of upland, il may be stubbie
after almost any crop, or an old pasture, OF
mowland, provided it be not too much ex-
hausted on the one hand, or on the other
was not highly enriched for the previous crop.
Plow early TO a depth of Six or seven
inches; after a few days exposure to the
sun, harrow down smoothly and furrow out
to depth of four or FIVE inches. 1t is well
to furrow both ways, and if done with a
small double mold pillow, it is well. Three
feet each way, or little lees, is suitable
distance. One potato to hill. of medium
size or little smaller, and uncut, is prop
er seeding. Drop these at the crossings. if
you furrow both ways; oE if you furrow but
one way at three feet apart, then two and a
half feet will be proper distance for the hills.
With each hill, put handful, say half a
pint or a little less, of unleached ashes, or
twice the quantity of leached ashes, or
handful of unleached ashes and oyster-shell
lime in about equal proportions. choosing
either of these three applications, according
as you can procure them most easily and
cheaply, where you are. The object is not
to enrich the ground, but to furnish the
specific food for the potato-that which its
nature requires. and with which it will be
far less likely to be affected by the potato
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better prescription for the purpose is the
following: Twelve bushels of unleached,
or twenty-four bushels of leached ashes;
four bushels of oystershell lime; one bush
el of plaster and half bushel of salt, mixed
thoroughly together, and thrown upon the
seed in way to scatter considerably, aud
not wholly in contact with it, as otherwise
the Stacking of the lime may produce SO
much heat as to prevent The seed from
sprouting. If oyster-shell lime is not 10 be
had conveniently at your place. you may
omit this. and still all the wants of the crop
will be nearly as well provided for. Do
not understand US, that all the ingredients
for even a small crop are contained in this
homeopathic dose of but from ! 5 to 90 to
the acre; but rather that the alkales con-
tanned in it act upon the soil. causing it to
furnish food to the crop, which it otherwise
would not. AS we have suggested several
applications for the potato. in way, per-
haps, to confuse the reader. We will repeat,
arranging them in order, but reserving to
the last that which we would most highly
recommend:
/. Unleached ashes, handful in a hill;
2. leached ashes AT the rate of two handfuls
in hill; g. Unleached ashes and oyster
shell lime in about equal proportions. from
one to two handfuls in hill; 4. A mixture
of g bushels of leached "a bushels of
unleached ashes, bushels of oyster-shell
lime, / bushel of plaster, and a half bush
ell of salt, for an acre.
Now if you will choose either of these
dressings, as circumstances at your location
favor, we believe you will be satisfied with
the result, but would recommend more
highly the last, because it furnishes, with
the pulp derived even from a meager soil,
all the ingredients required for medium
crop of potatoes. It renders the crop very
sure. not only for one year, but for sue
cession Of years, as long as you choose to
raise potatoes on the same ground and will
make the application yearly. Potatoes
grown by it are far more nutritious and of
finer quality than those grown by the ap-
plication of barn manure.
Having dropped the potatoes and manur-
ed them thus in the hills, you mag cover
them in the old way with the hoe. if you
dislike new things; but it is precisely as
well to run over the ground with bush :
harrow. such as one horse will draw easily.
and will not take quarter as much time.
This will fill the burrows. and allowing that
you furrowed to the depth of four or FIVE
inches, will, in case of feasible soil cover the
seed from three to four inches below the
level of the field after narrowing.
In the after cultivation, do not hill the
potatoes more than once, for every billing
causes a new setting of tubers, and the result
will be, you will have too many potatoes in a
hill, and too many of them will be too small to
be of any worth. The way to have pota
toes of good size and nearly uniform, is to
weed soon after they are up, thirteen days
or so after, to hill moderately once only,
and not to disturb them afterward. Nearly
all the work may be done with the culLiva
tor or horse hoe. Potatoes should not be
dug till the tops are dead, and then by all
means leave the tops on the ground, espe-
cially if you mean to grow potatoes in the
same plot another year. When dug they
should be removed from the sun and air as
soon as may be to a cool CELLAR
We do not commend the foregoing as a
way to get large crop. but as very sure
way to secure a middling crop, of excellent
quality, and at small expense.-N Y
World.
MARRowFAr BEANs.-A correspondent of
the RUral american says: From obsesva-
fion I an, foroihIr imrroSSod that tkoro ORC