The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-24

facts to the Baltimore American Farm
er, which, he SAYS, can be attested by
the sworn testimony Of two of his la
borers About five years ago he re-
ceived form New Jersey q peculiar
kind of a red potato, under the name of
Siberian red. It proved TO be a very
prolific beCrer, and of a monstrous size,
very mealY and wholesome for the
table, though some purple streaks
would occasionally run through the tu-
bers. Last summer he planted them in
hills four feet apart, between young
grape vines which stood eight feet by
eight feet, and raised on one acre a lit
tie better than one hundred bushels of
ma 2nificent potatoes. He fertilized
the hills By mixing lime with ten per
cent, of salt, and mixing old COW ma
nure with about ten per cent. of said
lime and salt compound. He used q
good shovelful of It in every hill, and
embodied It with the ground (clay SOLD
by digging. The result, he says, was
astonishing. When the potato bugs
(Which had then appeared IN myraids)
had eaten of a vine; presently two or
more vines would shoot up, keeping on
growing until the November frosts
killed them. Most curious of all, they
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seed balls) on the vines. One remark
able hill yielded forty-fve average
sized potatoes. Ali his other kinds, as
early rose, peachblow, early goodrich,
though treated in the same manner,
were an utter failure.
CORN IN HILLS AND DRILhs.
at the Michigan Agricultural college,
In 1868, two plots Of land were set
apart, substantially equal in character
of soil, each measuring forty-eight rods
IN width. The ground was plowed
May 3, and manure was spread evenly
and worked In by cultivator and har-
row. Yellow Dent corn was planted
May q, In rows four feet apart one of
the plots being planted to hills, the
other In drills. The plots were Guilt
waited and hoed June 10, and again
July z the plants being thinued so as
to leave the same number of stalks on
each plot, including an equal distribu-
ton of plants throughout the sub divi-
sion of the plots. AS nearly as possible,
each of the two plots received the same
amount of labor In cultivation. The
stalks were cut at the bottom Sept. II,
and stocked In good order. Three
weeks afterWard the corn was husked
and weighed. The stalks then again
carefully stocked, and were hauled and
weighed, in good condition, Oct. II.
The corn on the portion planted in
hills was better in quality than on that
planted in drills. But the drilled por-
ton produced seventy four and one
sixth bushels OF shelled corn and three
tons of stalks to the acre, against sixty
five and half bushels of shelled corn
and two and two-third5 tons of stalks
per acre produced by the portion in
hills.
HORSE TRAINING.
Observer, in The Michigan Farmer,
thus concludes an article on the frot-
ting horse: Kindness is the leading
instrument to educate and improve the
horse. Force begets resistance. It
compels the oppressed to fight back to
protect himself from oppression, and
he contracts the habit of REBEL on.
1t destroys the mutual confidence be-
tween the horse and his driver that
must exist to have the former respond
to the call IN every emergency. Pa
tienoe and perseverance viii accomplish
wonders. It has brought many young
trottefs OF modern promise to the high
est round ii the temple of fame. The
sk1llful trainer uses reason for his
guide, and steers clear of those breakers
that have wrecked so many Young
horses. BE adopts intelligent instruc-
ton to educate the trotter. He has
added incalculable value to the breed,
by developing the full powers of some
OF their choicest cions. Few persons
ever heard of Hambletonian till his
sons, Shark and Dexter, appeared upon
the turf. The Inherited trotting powers
of the colt can. be developed TO their
utmost extent by kindness united with