Connecticut western news., 1885-03-25
FARM AND GARDEN.
SOME INTERESTING NOTES ABOUT
 THE FARM,
Mir. Rose Gives ITS Information Concerning Rn Enormous Field He had from One Pound of Seed.

Mir. Rose Gives us Information Concerning
 Rn Enormous Field He had from Ono
 Pound of Seed.
 How A LARGE PRODUCT OF POTATOES WAS GRowN.-Mr. Alfred Rose gives to the Rural NeaO Yorker the following statement as to the method of culture by which he produced his extraordinary yield of potatoes, viz, 2,349 pounds from one pound of seed: "1 selected one pound of Dakota Red, consisting of three tubers. They were cut to single eyes, and all that were large enough were halyed and even quartered, dusted with plaster, and spread on boards in my cellar. In time, in the cut flesh part below the eye, bud started, and soon afterward buds on most of other eyes started on either side of the first. In time I out these apart, in many in- stances making seed enough for four hills from one-fourth of single eye. The land used was a strip between rows of grapevines, 8 feet wide and 15 rods long. The soil was sandy loam inter mixed with mari. Iplowed it twice 10 inches deep, then sowed broadcast 400 pounds of Bradley fertilizer Gas the using of this was part of the condi- tion of the contest) and narrowed it in thoroughly and deep. Next, I opened furrows g inches deep on each side of the centre and graded them to inches. The sets had now started to bud, and planted one to each hill by hand, care- fully covering them about inch deep. In time they came up, and soon laterals started; pushed these as far from the main stalks as possible, and drew soil to the hills, covering them up. This I continued until the main stalks had reached sufficient height, and the soil was drawn about them to a level with the surface of the land. Soon the lat erals came up from to 10 inches away from the main stalk, and as those were now well rooted I opened slight furrows near the rows and ran my hand under the shoots or branches, out them of near the main stalk, and transplanted them to prepared rows. Not one died or even wilted. In this way I obtained from two to five shoots from each of most of the hills. At the first hoeing I scattered more of the same fertilizer in and around the hills. They were hood three times, and soon after hilled up u1S Snh Tn on ha1 when dug and carefully cleaned and weighed there were 2,349 pounds, or 39 9-60 bushels. Many of the tubers weighed two and one-half to three pounds. Four of my best hills, with two shoots each, yielded 42 pounds, or at the rate of 2,524 bushels per acre. From a second pound treated in the same manner I grew 1880 pounds, or 33 bushels. In this case I failed, on account of a heavier soil, to get as many offshoots, and so, of course, had not as many hills. I should be pleased to have others try my new mode of cutting seed and culture, believing that for an entirely out-of-door culture it will produce yield superior to all | others"
 How TO MAKE HENS LAY.-Never stint poultry in the variety or quality of their food. Good food is positive econ- omy. The best and newest corn is the cheapest. The best food is that which gives most of what nature demands for the formation of muscle, bone and fat. Fine bran or middlings is richer in two of these important ingredients than any other one kind of food, but being defi- cient in gluten it is not warmth giving, and is better when combined with whole grain, which, when washed, forms a most wholesome and nutritious diet. Barley is much used, but should never be the only food in the poultry house. Oats are good as 8 change, but inferior in nutriment. If they are Drowned or roasted and given freely, they prove a good producing food. Buckwheat is said to be good, although I never used it. Sun flower seed is also produc- tive of eggs, and is very strengthening to laying bullets. Soft food should never be given cold mornings. The grain should be ground and warm water should always be supplied them every day. If farmers should care for the hens as they would for good horse or COW, there is nothing to pay better. Gravel and old broken dishes pounded up fine should always be kept in their house, and meat or fish given them once g week. Turnips and refuse cabbage leaves chopped fine answer for green food. which they must have to lay h1 the winter season.