News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-22
UNCLE HEzEKIAH'S EXPERIMENTS
Little Take OF ON tho Big Stories Told by
the Newspapers.

One night arter all the chores WIS
done, last spring, I tho't, tho'ts I, ez
how I wud try sum experiments on pO-
taters, ez I'd been readin' bout other
farmers dom. Sum Of my agricultural
papers had been teliin' as how they had
raz5d 1000, 1900, and even 1,30)
bushels taters to the acre, or L should
say at that rate, SO why couldn't l? So
[ went to work, found one o'Saly
AIMS old flower boxes cut in the shed
that had Eve separate boxes or apart
ments into it, and took it out into the
garden. Sally Ann spied me. "What
yer dom with my posy box out there,
dezokiah p SEE she.
"Experimentin'," seq I. "I'm Jest
goin' to see how many taters I kin raze
on an acre and prove it. What's the
everlastin' use Of alters scratchin' and
diggin' for twenty-five bushels to the
acre and small ones to boot, when sum
Of our hard-fsted laborers who edit
agricultural papers, and who kin do no
more nor / kin, raze 1900 bushels ?
That's what I want to know" At that
Sally Ann went into the house and l
went TO work
As l sed, the box was five feet long
Inside measure, and exactly one foot
vide. / numbered the plots L. Z, y, L,
5, got some good soil and put in all just
alike, then mixed in, or else put on
AFTERWARDS, several kinds of these yer
later fertilizers they tell so much about
don't give no names, as that might ad
vertise ems little, you know, only on
one pot 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.
You should hev seen them later tops
grow though during the summer.
Looked ike a young hedge, they was
so rank 1t bein out of the question to do
much with horse and plow, I give 'em
level culture with an old trowel. But
now fur the result. Plot 1 had 10 taters,
measured 8 quarts; plot 2. 6 taters
measured 7 quarts; plot 3, - taters or
10 quarts; plot 4, 8 and s, and plot 5,
30 and u quarts. ''There you be, ;" sez
[, call easy fgurin', and fgurs don't
lie."
Let's see, now Altogether [ raised 46
quarts in box containin' 5 square feet.
Accordin' TO old Daboll, in an acre there
is jest 43, $50 square feet. and in 46
quarts there's Jest l. 1875 bushel, that is,
one bushel and so much over. Now if
divide 43, $50 by 5, that'll tell me how
many 5 foot boxes I'd hev in an acre,
which gives s 712 boxes. But in every
BOX thar would Of course be 1876
bushel, so multiply s 7l2 by J375 and
it gives II, 5235 bushel. That's cleer.
Thar you hev it, seq I. tive beet the
world. Tell everybody Uncle Hezekiah
has raised II, 5533 bushels of taters to
he acre, and there's your fgurs. It's
Is plain as the nose on your face" seq I
o myself. But speekin' a leetle too
oud Sally Aun overheard me, and she
,ez, What's so awful plain, Heze-
ziah q
"Why, these yer taters and these yer
figures" seq [.
"Them is whoopers, seq she, 'both
% well, Hezekiah, 'spose you'll plant
hat big side-hill lot next spring and
show folks how to raise 10, 0C0 bushels
On every acre, but you'll hev to Civ your
Individual attenshun to each individual
nil. Now, fore you write out your ex-
loriment, Hezekiah, for the papers,
you'd better make it plain that you didn't
hev 5000 and more boxes like mine all
over your acre patch, AMI that it was at
ne rSts e.f IL, 900 bushels, not actually
hat, for you'd hev all our 'neighbora
tafin at you, Hezekiah jest as they do
at these big yields OF corn and potaters
they read about IN some of our agercul-
iural papers" And so Thought
HEZEKIAH
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