The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-06
Uncle Hezekiah's Experiments.

One night AFTER all the chores wus DONE last
spring, tho't thots | eZ how wud try some ex-
periments on potatoes, I'd been readin' bout
other farmers dom. Sum of my agricultural
papers had been tellin as how they had RACED
1,00e. L 200 and 1900 bushels taters to the
acre. or should say at that rate. so why couldn't
IL So went to work. / found one O Sally
AIMS old flower boxes out in the shed that had
Ave separate boxes or apartments into it, and
took it out iuto the garden Sally Ann spied me.
What yer doin' with my posy box out there,
HeZekiahY seq she.
'Expcrimentn'." seq I. I'm jest goin' to see
how many tarers kin raze acre aud prove
it, What's the everlastin' use of alters scratch
in and diggin for twenty-five bushels to the acre
and small ones to boot. when sum of our hard
listed laborers who edit agricultural paper and
who kin do NO more nor l kin, raze 1900 bush
els9 That's what l want to know" At that
Sally Ann went into the house and / went to
work.
AS / sed, the box was five feet long inside
measure. and exactly one foot wide | num-
bered the plots /, q 8, 4, 5. got some good soil
and put in all just alike, then mixed H. OF else
put ON afterward, several kinds of these yer
later fertilizers they tell so much about Il don't
give names, that might advertise 'em q
little You know) only on one plot | didn't put
none.
Well. then come the question of how many
eyes to the hill, so put 'em in No. l, one eye;
No. 2, two eye; No. 3, three eye, and SO on
through the five
I on should heV seen them taDeP cops grow
though during the summer. Looked like a
young hedge they was SO rank! 1t bein' out of
the question to do much with horse and plow,
| give 'em level culture with old trowel. But
now fur the result Plot had ten tateFs meas
ured nine quarts; plot 2, six taters measured
seven quarts; plot g. twelve taters or ten quarts;
plot a, eight and eight, and plot 8, thirty and
twelve quarts There you be" SEE /, ''aH easy
figurin, and figurs don't lie."
Lets see, now Altogether raised 46 quarts
.voo h,xr ,tV,t Gx-a fnAk J;,t
to old Daboll, in acre there is jest 43, $50
square feet, and in 46 quarts there's jest / 1875
bushel. that is, one bushel and 80 much over.
Now if divide 43, $50 by 5, thatll tell how many
5foot boxes I'd have in an acre, which gives
8, 712 boxes. But in every box thar would of
course be 1.4375 bashel multiply 8, liz by
clear. Thar you hev it," seq l, 1--WE beet the
world Tell everybody Uncle Hezekiah has
raised 12,5239 bushels of taters to the acre, and
there's your fgurs. It's as plain as the nose On
your face" / TO myself But speekin' q
leetle too loud Sally Ann overheard me- and she
sez whats so awful plain Hezekiahg"
why, these yer taters and these yer figures"
SEE /.
Them is whoppers,' seq she, both taters
and figurs; and now you've done so well, Heze-
kiah, 'spose you'll plant that big side-hill lot
next spring. and show folks how to raise IL 600
bushels on every acre, but you'll have to Civ
your individual attenshun to each Individual HILL
Now fore you write oat you experiment, HeDe-
kiah, for the papers, you'd better make it plain
that you didn't hev 8,0o0 and more boxes like
mine all over your acre patch. and that it was
at the rate of IL, 600 bushels. not actually that
for you'd hey all our neighbers latin at you,
Hezekiah, jest as they do at these big yields of
corn and potaters they read about in some Of
our agricultural papers