Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-04-01
Farmers Column.


BURNERS ~suDs
Regular meeting of the Cedar VAL
ey Farmers Club, on Saturday,
March Goth, 1870; Vice.President
John Tennyson in the chair.
The committee on garden seeds re-
ported rs follows: Beans, dwarf
wax and early Rachael for early
Giant Wax and Boston Market Gran
berry for late. Beets, early Blossoms
and early blood tnrnip for early, and
long smooth dark blood for late;
Cabbages, little Pixie and Winstaldt
for early, and Fottlers early drum
head aud marblehead mammoth for
late; Carrots, long orange; Corn,
Crosby's new early sweet and Trim
ble's improved sweet; Cucumbers,
early frame aud Boston picking !;
lettuce, white, Paris, gas and dru IN
head Musk melon, new white Jap
an; Watermelon, mountain sweet;
Onions, Dauvers yellow and large
red Weathersiield; Early Peas, Car
ter's first crop and early Tom Thumb;
Second Early, LaXton's prolific, hong
pod; Late Peas, Champion of Eug-
land and large marrowfat; kadish,
early long scarlet, and for winter,
black Spanish American Turhan
and hubbard; Tomatoes, General
Grant and Boston market; Turnips,
early red top and and sweet German
Field Corn, early Sanford. A motion
was made that the Club recommend
the early rose and buckeye potatoes
to the farmers of this vicinity for
planting this season. Mr.. Bancroft
moved as an amendment that the
early Goodrich be added to the list,
which was carried.
1t was decided by the Club to post
pone the discussion on flowers aud to
discuss the best method Of raising po-
tatoes. Mr.. Speer thought that the
potato should not he planted on old
ground-would prefer sod-.plants the
eyes of we'll matured, medium sized
potatoes, and has had good success in
doing so; has heard of some farmers
who plowed their land and in every
third furrow dropped their potatoes
and covered with the next furrow,
end had heard that method we'll
spoken of. Mr.. Parker said the
ground should be we'll plowed in the
fall, and MANFRED good plows three
burrows, drops his potatoes, covers
with the next, and plows in such a
manner as to form a ridge to plant
III; after planting harro~s it to make
the ground level, and also to have
tho potatoes near the surface; recon-
mends the Buckeye for all times of
the year. Mr.. Anderson p'ows in the
fall and again in the spriEg; plants
In the furrow. Mr.. Felmly plants
good sized potatoes; distance four
feet each way, and finds the best po-
tatoes i'm the bottom of the hill
plows' his out in the fall; prefers that
way of harvesting. Mr.. Parker takes
good large sound potatoes; cuts
them lengthwise, leaving 3 or A eyes
in each piece; plants in drills. Nh.
T. f. West plants the eyes in hills so
that he can cultivate them both
ways. Mr.. Tennyson plants four feet
each way; marks the ground with
corr marker; takes up portion of
earth; drops his seed and covers with
the shovelfull he removed; does not
hoe his potatoes cultivates with a
pillow. Mr.. Bancroft plants shallow
and uses medium sized potatoes for
seed.
Mr.. Speer made a motion that the
chair appoint n committee to- make a
list of flower seeds and shrubbery
suitable for the farmers i'm this part
OF the country. Carried. Committee
appointed, Messrs. S. III. Rownd anu
S. A. Bishop, to report at next meet
ing.
A discussion on feeding work
horses was then taken up by the
Club, occupying about three quarters
ofan hour. Adjourned.