Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-03-07

Our own experiment, of about an
acre, was almost failure. The soil be-
ing light sand-extremely dry at the
time of planting and for several weeks
afterwards, and the seed cut into pieces
of single eyes, many of them dried up
entirely without spreading and most of
of the rest sprouted very feebly, so as
to be too late for any yield before frost
came. In 1872 we had small patch of
the late rose which yielded finely On the
same kind of land. and this fact, with
what we had seen OF the variety else
where for several years previous con-
WINGED as that it was the potato our
farmers wanted.
The experiment of Mr.. Isham, of Mad
ison as narrated in our former
article, showing a yield of more than
400 bushels per acre, is sufficient to con-
vince the farmers of that great potato
growing township. Col. Crocker writes
US that he thinks all the supply of late
rose in that township will be wanted
there for seed this spring. He was re-
Gently offered $l.25 per bushel for all
his crop, but declined it. (See advertise
ment.)
PRIZES FOR GROWING POTATOES.
The practice of awarding prizes for
growing the largest amounts of potatoes
from given quantities of seed, is COM
mented on in the following sensible
way by Joseph Harris in his s.Wafks
on5 troI,,s,, =, A.,a,;.o, Aor;u,,,t,.;s,.
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In tnese PTehlu.ii-potato IFials one
man got ooI IDS. OF potatoes from one
pounu OF seeo, anu Ihe ioMSsI yieiu III
Ine ~ ulnereht trials, ny u,nerehI peo-
pie, IN oinefeht parts oI the country
Was 1oo ips. lroin o1e pouilo VI secu.
we usually piant ,an pusneis vi seeu per
acfe, anu get apou. ~ pushe!s-ol Is say
~ pouhus Vi poIaeoes ~ ~ ~. Vi se9u' u u
we coulu grow 10Y tDs; .oo troih l ~. VI
seeu, we shouiu Sec !,ooo ouenels Vi ~ ~
tatoes per acre. or IL we couiu grow oV1
IDS. from one 10. OF SEED, we shonlo
grow e,o4Z pushels per acre. -Ihe
DEACON laugheu quieG laugh anu
sgrugged MS shoulders, out maze no
further remarks. ;,
Inc eAperInencs' DSaooh, re-
Ileu, are ueslgneu " SHOW Ihe Wonc =
der1ul vitality ana productive powers OF
TWO new varletles OF poIrCoes. we
must take the Iacts iof what Iney are
worm. NO FARMER Woulu Inink VI
pIaiCing poIaooes as elese "eIo pialCeu' ','i
w we want 10 raise olg crops per acre.
ihese e1pefimenters trieu now much
1ney couid geI from pounu od seeo'
iney CUT tnelr pouliu VI seeu iil.o nuli- 4'
ureu or 50 pieces' wl.i ftI nesel nule Inan .at
less; Iney piahteu one VI Chese nun
dfed peices IN mn. TOT ahything
that appears 70 tne contrary, eacn nh
may nave occupieu e4uale Iou. - cne
mus ms WgIe rev apaio, sieeo q Nv, Moulu o5
i,lIo nills in an 5on aSe anu II the .i Pounu
oi seeu piaiIeu tVo nliiS, as ..ie lepuls .,l
gives unaerstanu was sonletilues ata 1i tne
cror wopld tnrn ont ahout 10 bushels
ea iha Ie isrSest weld renorted if would he m
be about 12S bushels per acre. The
committee say the hills were invariably
placed considefapie distance apart,
-. f,,.tha,. II thaw ,,ara fon,
feet anart there would he 9. s47 hills in
am acre and If the hundred hills Welded
35O Ibs the WELD ner acre would be
G. .837I lbs. or little less than ia
bushels of go lbs: and the largest Weld
renorted would he 200 .2S47 .e)7 IA 2S11
ia 2S1 lbs. or 2SS bushels Der acre
se,That looks more reasonable, saws
the Deacon. seI usnallv nlant az feet
anart each wav ), 'Tbis WonId Give 2 556
hills nor acre and the smallest weld re-
norted would he abont T43 bushels ner
acre and the LARGEST ahont 36O bushels
ner acre
knew very well that this il NOT do
;,o these yar;atias inst;na They ore
IG7shtIeSs canahIe of nroducino much
laroe,. crons IF moro and 1arger seed had
heen used And as T said before. I hone
that bereaftar the nr;zas will he offered
co.. 80 tho Iar~ast y;eid nor acre r,tber
than for the largest production from
the smallest onanfitv Of seed.
STOCK BREEDING AND MANAGEMENT.
rho f,,,o,;.,o ron,orls hn I,an. ~
y. JONES' Oh beiaWafe' w., are taken
from the american Agricultarist, and
sbonld he read and acted on bv every
-.
"a. nv
II anytbing can pe regarueu as SET
tled III the theofy anu practice Vi Amer
ican agrlcuI!ure 1t Is tiiat, except Ia tns
lmneuiate vicinity vi iaISe LOW ne anu anu
cues, anu possipiy oh che ,icn cVtCon
ana sugar lanus vi the Soueh; I'LL: pusi-
ness caii .ioI ~ oe ,na; ~, feaIi'r ~
IilciuuinS .ho Ssow,s : u - ;s5;s,aSs, 5S oi
s1ooh "iiin: 80 ..a ,o ~ oe ~ fo,..;t; -
ple w .ue .Io y. .to that 10y ~
tne sou anu me suc1e;I ;tht y, 'iat hiah ,.,a
sys.eni Vi at;a', o;,It I,o th d;snstno',s w
nave no Plo.ecIioli a,nsu sno uaSeae noa
encts vi low Plioes anu una y, y, aoiI SD
Sols upon palslouta. s o'ups ot paouuoSs p ,,as.
M Lne opinion, 'ist ist tio, st, "m no s1nu ',a+
any prerails; tnaS seoDhsrcoMinS Isrt nus. .n
De apanuoneu III 'ne 2ioei otates iol a's .ne
reasoll .lat 'lo!1 80 i'ilua o"'. at
not coihpe.e WIN .ilT 0.eapel iaiiue vi
the new ola.es anu teal,.oiioe, taa la MAI
liestiy efloi,eoue s oeoa.so. "na.Sso ..o q
changes may pe quireu III ene prac'ice
o! agriculture III ll!e oiuei secCiohe' ~
view OF the cohpetitioh VI Ile rIcn corn
ana grass lands which ny misIakeil
policy are being 1ofceu INTO occupancy
in advance OF the actual hecessltles OF
the people, IL seems OBVIOUS thaG SO long
as the land Is used lor tne pro
ductlon OF crops tne grazing anu ieedins
OF live stock can not pe dispensed Win
Tins Is demonstrated oy the pfaetiet
OF the farmers OF 0reat Drltiah' VINO
notwithstanding the nlgn price OF lane
and of all varieties OF tlllage crops, pay
more attention TO STOCK Dfeeding tnai