The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1880-01-09

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livca. This TACT may tend IN show what
may bc gained by course ~ rcrscser
Ing industry and economy In The pnr'
enit u agriculture and thc rewards
| which arc offered Tor honest work In
the labor for which our race was first
created the cultivation of thc soil.
porAro CrLrrne A writer In the
English agricultural Gazette sAys:
.Thc crown.cycs u the potato arr the
only oncs which yield vigorous plants;
The produce 81 tie other cycs n feeble
and unrcmnncrativc. II. therefore, pc.
tatocs are cut for Mcd, they should not
fas " nsnal) he cut In their length, Ivy
which tho crown Ia divided aud eyes
of All kinds introduced into tho seed,
but they should bc cut across, the half
containing the crown.cycs planted and
tho other hall consumed IN food. The
very beat results arr obtained when
large potatoes are taken, Ill eyes OK.
ccpting those of tho crown cut out. and
| tho whole remaining potato planted
Htch!cr points out that the potato In M
underground Atcm, and tho crown.
eyes the buds 10 the end of the bianch.
Hut tho terminal buds al branch nrc
always far more vigorous than the lat.
crrl buds, ax any ono may ascertain for
himself by watching tho growth 81
trees and shrrbs. Tho degeneration
o. varieties VI potatoes ID believed BY
some oil the Herman writer's 10 be
largely duo 10 repeated propagation
from small potatoes aud feeble hnds.
Tho two laws of propagation noticed
arc strikinply illustrated BY the expert
mcnts of Franz. His experiments were
carried ont In garden soil; the crop
obtained In given below In tons per acre !:
Inl.rr divided III ,h,ir irnT'h. per acr, ......
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IriMM HALL ~ tMlTf~sssst va
Whole tnhurs. eyes oilar than eroNn r.
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Stcblcr, lsimpan, Janovsky aud
Derschlcr and Fcscn have experimcnted
ON the same subject; all Of them con.
clndc that whole tmbcrs yield much
higher produce than tubers divided in
their length, also, TINT tho crown halt
II the potato yields \ decidedly larger
crop than the half obtained by division
through tho length; bnt they do not.
like Franz, lind that the crown halt Ii
generally supcrios TO the whole tnbers.
Dcrschlcr, from tho results, concludes