Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-03-04
COLUMBUS, O., MONDAY MORNING,
Experience with Potatoes.

L have during the present season had
under cultivation six kinds of potatoes, viz:
Ousco, Mercer, Monitor Early Goodrich
Nova Scotia, Mercer and Early June. = { -
OF the two later kinds l had but few
planted and the result of my trial is not
such as to induce me to retain them in my
list for next season: their quality is as
good as common MERGERS, but they yielded
but poorly even under good cultivation.
and that they are by no means as profitable
as other kinds.
The Cuscos, with three hundred pounds
of phosphate per acre, yielded at the rate
OF two hundred and siXty-five bushels OF
marketable potatoes per acre, and thirty
two of small ones, making two hundred
and ninety two mall. Tie potatoes were
generally large and perfect and free from
faults in the middle. They were marked
out in squares three feet asunder, and
single piece Gas hereafter described) cover
ed at the intersection of the burrows. In
many cases there were six pounds of mark
etable potatoes in hill.
With regard to this potato, the impress
sion seems TO have got abroad that it is in
variably a strong. rank potato, but after
several years. trial have not found this to
be the case but I have -boubtT Tehat if
baFI1yartf manu- re is used ihlarge quantities
the product will be overgrown and strong,
but when raised with moderate amount
of phosphate l have always found it to be
good producer and good eating potato. 1
have no doubt that by forcing with large
amount of manure, crop OF five hundred
bushels per acre can be raised. 1t is in
shape not unlike the Mercer, though it
| usually is much larger and more free from
eXcrescences.
The Mercer is our standard potatoe, but
| from some cause or other we cannot obtain
anything like good crop, not more than
seVt nty to eighty bushels per acre, with
the same care and treatment which, bestOw-
ed on the Monitor, Cusco or Early Good
| rich, will produce from two hundred and
| fifty to three hundred bushels per acre.
1t is the market potato of Rh1ladelphia,
! and as an eating potato will command from
| five to ten cents per bushel more thausany
other kind. This season, with the same
/ care, manure and cultivation, it only pro-
duced one sixth the crop OF Monitors upon
the same amount of adjacent ground, and
hence without we can produce some radl-
cal change in the amount of the crop we
i must try some other kind which have
| proved themselves to be more productive
/ and at the same time of as good quality.
The Monitors, with the same amount OF
phosphate as the Cusco, produced over
| three hundred bushels, per acre,and-Were
rtmarkable- for 2their uniform size sand
\ freedom from small potatoes. In appear
! ance they do not resemble the Mercer, and
! hence will not command as high price in
| the market as an eating potato, though they
are quite as good, II not superior to tie
| Mercer.
! They are remarkably late potato, and
continue to grow in most cases until frost
j though in some situations they attain their
1 growth as soon as the CuscO, but in most
cases they are from two to four weeks
! later Fs7s
The most productive potato of which
have any knowledge is the Early Goodrich
With phosphate at the rate of three hund-
red pounds per acre it produced three
? hundred and fifty bushels per acre of quite
I as good quality as the Monitor OF Mercer
with fewer extraordinary large ones thar
i the former and a smaller number of small
ones than the latter. sst#' #E
7 Sooner or later the Monitor. and Early
i Goodrich will take the place of the Mercer
in the opinion OF the public, and from the
increased yieldswe can produce them at
less cost per bushel.
I Ofthe Buckeyes and Peach Blows know
but little, tor my soil being heavy, is no
Il adapted to their growth, and my expert
ments with them have not resulted favor
I ably; but, L would not condemn them wher
the soil is suited to their growth, for they
I are generally more productive than the
j MercerACOr. SGerneGntOton Telegraph. =