Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-10-26
AGRICULTURAL CLlPPINGS.

Portage Register James Parks, an
elterprising farmer in Lowville, brought
to us on Wednesday last, two sam pies
of potatoes raised By him this year,
both of very large size. One he calls
the American Giant" which is long
as well as large, and from one pound OF
seed produced 100 pounds of potatoes.
The other is called 1.-THE Mammoth
PEARL" and is round fair potato.
From 143 pounds ofseed he raised / 400
pounds of potatoes. We know nothing
of their value for table use, but should
say they were quite too large, unless
their cooking was commenced day or
two before they were placed before the
consumer
OF 100 acres of corn in Kingston,
Green Lake county, Wis, raised by o.
w. Bow, sixty acres are reported as
not worth harvesting.
Prairie Farmer: The average shrink
age of wheat from threshing time for
the next six months, is estimated to
be six per cent. Hence ninety cents
from the machine is as good as 81 the
next spring, to say nothing about in
surance and interest on money.
Corn will shrink from the time it is
husked from the field or shock in the
autumn, in well-protected cribs, from
twenty to thirty per cent. by spring.
That is, 100 bushels will shrink to sew
enty or eighty, according to how dry
it was when gathered. Sound corn
will shrink twenty per cent, 80 that
forty cents per bushel as it comes from
the field is as good as fifty cents in the
spring.
A New York journal, published in
the interest of those who buy and sell
provisions, says: A great deal of
wheat will be fed to stock this year,
for two reasons-frst, because in many
places it will be mparatively low in
price, and, second, because good deal
Of it is too much damaged to bring q
good market price. In either case the
use of wheat in this way is sensible
and likely to be remunerative. This
is mere bosh; first, because wheat will
not be low ~ compared with the
coarser feeding grains, and, second,
wheat as whole is not damaged by
wet weather, neither is much of it so
damaged The wheat Of the country
was gathered in in more than average
condition. 1t is e. Nd and will pay to
| hold.
The Palmyra Enterprise, says of the
cucumber pickle business in that place:
Twelve thousand and forty bushels of
cucumbers have been delivered at the
pickle station. The amount paid and
to be paid for the product is nearly
s. 900. During the season the cucum-
bers were daily shipped to the Milwau-
kee Pickle Co., at Wauwatosa. This
company, we understand, have re-
ceived at their factory during the
months of August and September,
about %, 900 bushels. This is the third
season that cucumbers have been
raised in this vicinity and we think the
patrons have been we'll satisfied with
the promptness and fairness of the pro-
prieturs in their payments. 1t seems
to us that the business has proved rs
remunerative to the growers AS that of
any other business of the kind, and we
see no reason why the names of a
large number of growers will not be
added to the list the coming year.
E. Lewis Sturtevant, director of NY
experiment station says: The Giant of
Armstadt cucumber is the only English
frame variety that we planted, and of
this but one hill. Notwithstanding the
unfavorable character of the season
this cucumber has fruited abundantly
and has given us a most desirable veg
etable. In quality this cucumber far
surpasses the so-called garden varieties
If one seasons trial can be accepted as
sufficient, it should be more generally
grown for garden crop by those who
appreciate large, crisp, nearly seed
less, fine-havored and attractive cucum-
Der.