Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-03
LOCAL NEWS.
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The Farmers' Club.

The Culture and Marketing OR POta-
 EOes-A Free Discussion by the TflIers
 of the Soil.
 The regular monthly meeting of the New Haven County Farmers Club was held in Sheffield Hall yesterday afternoon, President Webb in the chair.
 President Webb, in opening the discussion, said the subject for consideration was s'The Culture and Marketing of Potatoes" It was 8 matter of 0 good deal of interest to him, and he thought it was to others. The best way of planting and the best kind of manure were questions which were important An other question of great importance was how to deal with the potatoes worst enemy, the potato bug. He had found the best plan to be to mix the Paris green with plaster, using 1t with horse water sprinkler. The action of the water sprinkler in moving over tn ground mixed with the ingredients, and there was in this way a great saving of Paris green. He said he came to the meeting to be instructed, and with the expsri- once of the gentlemen present he expected to receive important suggestions. In regard to marketing potatoes he said 1t was plain that those who had kept their potatoes over until now would rot realize as good prices as If they had sold them later in ths season. All these questions were important.
 Mr Morgan said he had had but little ex- periencs in raising potatoes. What he wanted to know was the best kind Of potatoes to plant. In regard to MT. Wsbb's plan in distributing his Paris green, he said he "did not want any of it."
 Mir. Bradley, of Hamden, exhibited model cultivator which he used for hosing potatoes, which covered tho drills in which he had dropped his corn or potatoes. Another at tachment which took the place of the shoysls was used to kill the weeds by passing the cul- tivator between the rows and cutting them of. He said he could kill all the weeds be- tween the rows without any trouble, and never found it necessary to use hoe. Az for the kind of potatoes, he said the Burbank seed ling was the best he had ever used. all things considered. Their yield was much larger than | the early ross, yet they would not bring quite ! as many cents in market. He said his wife ! thought they were good potatoes Bliss' Fri 1 umph and tho Early Rose were both excellent potatoes. The former is better at this time of | the year than Early Rose, and are about two | weeks earlier. Again they do not rot like the l Rose. He said he had tried the Snow Flake, | but gave them up.
 In reply to question MT. Bradley said he ''worked" his potatoes as long ss he could | ''get breath" l
 Continuing, he said that for fertilizers he ! used barn yard manure almost exclusively. l He used little plaster, and thought little l salt with the plaster was good thing. The | "Davis Seeding" was also shown. Mr. | Bradley said it was an excellent potato, | would grow on poor ground, and yielded | largely The ''Beauty of Hebron was also | ted If fba and Patrick" and American" were highly spoken of
 Mir Morgan took up the discussion regard ing Mir. Bradley's cultivator. He said he had seen it in operation, and was never more taken with a tool in all his life He said he thought it was the best machine of the kind he had ever seen, in the hands of man who had got brains to use it. He said the tool had cheated him more than any tool he ever saw, and he had gone to work and made one just like it during the past winter.
 For potato fertilizers the 'Stockbridge" was highly spoken of. Some had used $15 worth to the acre and others $2O worth. It was stated that on poor soil it worked admir- ably.
 As to the seed some put in two eyes to a hill and others three. The best way to keep potatoes from sprouting WAS to keep moving them.
 In regard to marketing, MT. Olmsread said he thought if the farmer could get a fair price for potatoes Tn the fall he had better sell than to keep them over.
 Mir. Morgan said he did not raise 6 great many potatoes. but of what he did raise he calculated to sell about half in the fall and half in ths spring. He thought he would hit it at one end or the other.
 MT. O. B. Foote thought the best way was to keep the market well supplied rather than to store them, with an idea of getting larger price in tho spring.
 Jesso Cooper said You may cook all the new kinds of potatoes in the same pot with 'tEarly Rose" and these will be eaten while the new kinds will be left.
 NIT. Bradley said 'Esrly Rose" was not good enough for him. The Burbank Seed ling" WAS far preferable.
 Most of the farmers present were opposed to using manure in the drills when planting potatoes.
 It was voted that at the next meeting Dr. Rose be invited to read paper on ''Tubercu- losis in Cattle.'
 President Webb said this was a very impor- tant subject to farmers. It was disease that every farmer was liable to have in his cattle ard great deal of time was spent in trying to cure them, which was time thrown away. He hoped there would be full attendance at the next meeting.
 The meeting adjourned until the third Fri day afternoon in April at o'clock.