Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-05-28

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5. No. 6. This is decidedly the hand
soonest of Mr.. Bresee's seedlings. 1t wal
originated in 1862. 1t is round, rusty
coat potato, with the eyes on the surface
like the Early Rose. 1t ripens in Sep
TENDER. Some think it will surpass the
Prolific as field potato. 1t is much
sought for, and has been sold for $40 for
potato.
6. No. 7. This potato was also orig
mated by Mr.. Bresee in 1862, from the
Garnet Chill. 1t has not yet been fully
tested, but it promises well.
POTATO CULTURE.
Plow the ground deep, and harrow I'M
til it is well pulverized.
Select well shaped and sound potatoes
for planting. Plant on the surface, and
not at the bottom of furrow. A mark
as for planting corn is all that is neces-
essary. The plea for planting down in
the ground lest the potato will suffer in
dry weather, is all nonsense. A little
recollection will remind any careful OBJ
server that the potato crop never fails in
dry season. No other vegetable will
stand drought so well as the potato.
Cut up your potatoes, as near as you
can, so as to have three or four sprouts
or stems come up in hill. If only a
small piece of ground is to be planted,
plant in drills, dropping the pieces
twelve or fifteen inches apart. If a
large piece of ground is to be planted,
mark it both ways, the marks to be three
feet and half apart.
If your ground is weedy, cultivate and
hoe thoroughly as soon as you can see
the rows. And before the buds for the
blossoms appear, cultivate and form COM
plete hills. This is the essential thing
in potato culture, For if you dig deep
about your potatoes after the tubers be-
gin to grow, you spoil your crop; at
least you injure it beyond remedy. If
hen scratch into hill of potatoes, and
you repair it ever so carefully, it will
never recover from the injury. If weeds
appear after the killing is done, they
must be destroyed but this should be
done with as light cultivating and hoeing
as possible. The weeds near vines should
be carefully pulled by the hand.
| have raised potatoes for more than
forty years. Inever fail of having two,
three, and sometimes four times as many
as some of my neighbors, who manage
after the following fashion: They half
plough and harrow the land then fur
row for the rows instead of marking
then pick up the refuse potatoes that
have been run over by the family all
winter in selecting potatoes to eat f; then
plant them in the bottom of the burrows,
then, after all other hoeing is done, and
after the potatoes are budded, or even
blossomed, go into the field with plough
and plough the soil against the potatoes
and the hoeing consists in uncovering
those potatoes which the plough has bur.
led, and the work is done.
Go into the field where such farmer
has dug his potatoes, after he has founC
the hills amid weeds, and stones, and un
broken clods of earth, he digs little hole
in the ground, looking very much lik
so many woodchuck holes begun, ant
from these holes he draws up about one
third or one quarter Of a crop of small
poor potatoes, and many of them hacke'
to pieces I? Why persist in such profit
less farming2 Why not take littl
pains and receive the ample reward.