Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-01

say at that rate, SO why couldn't T:
So i went to work j found one .
Sally AIMS old flower boxes ont in the
shed that had Ave aeparate boxes 8.
apartments into it. and took il out into
the garden. Sally Ann spied mo,
What yer dom with my posy box ont
there, Hezekiah |" seq she. 81
"Experimentin' :, SEE /. TIM Jest
goin' to see how many tatsrs / 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 hardfisted laborers who edit ager.
cultural papers, and who kin do nc
more nor I kin, raze 1900 bushels
That's what / want to know. At that
Sally Ann went into the house and
went to work.
As 7 sed, the box was five feet long
inside measure, and exactly one foot
wide. I NUMBERED the plots 1, 2, g.. 4, 5,
got some good soil and put in all just
alike, then mixed in, OF else put on arter
wards, several kinds Of these yer later
fertilizers they tell SO much about {
don't give no names, as that might adj
vertise 'em little, you know, only on
one plot didn't put none.
Well then come the question of how
many eyes to the hill, so I 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 like young hedge, they was
SO rank It bein' out Of the question to
do much with q horse and plough, ]
give 'em level culture with an old trow-
Ell. But now fur the result. Plot 1
had 10 taters, measured 9 quarts plot
2, 6 taters measured 7 quarts; plot 3,
- taters or 10 quarts plot 4, 8 and 8,
and plot 5, 80 and ~ quarts. "There
you be-" seq I, "all easy figurin', and
fgurs don't lie.
Let's sec, now! Altogether I raised
As quarts in box containin' square
feet. Accordin' to old Daboll, in an
acre there is jest 1850 square feet, and
in rs quarts there's jest 1.4375 bushel,
that is. one bushel and so much over.
Nowif divide 1860 by 5, thatll tell
how many 5~foot boxes I'd hev in an
acre, which gives 8,712 boxes But in
every box thar would of course be
1.4375 bushel, so multiply S,712 by
l.4375 and it gives 12,5234 bushels.
That's cleer. "Tnar you hev it," sew l.,
1--WE beet the world. Tell everybody
Uncle Hezekiah has raised 12,52335
bushels of taters to the acre, and there s
your figurs. It's as plain as the nose
on your face" seq I to myself. But
speekin' leetle too loud Sally Ann
overheard me, and she seq, "Whnt's so
awful plain, Hezekiah?"
"Why, these yer taters and these yer
figures" sez !.
"Them is whoppers, seq she, "both
taters and fgurs; and now you've done
so we'll, Hezekiah, I 'spose you'll plant
that big side-hill lot next spring and
show folks low to raise $4,000 bushels
on every acre, but you'll hev to Civ
your individual attenshun to each in
dividual hill. Now fore You write out
your experiment., Hezekiah, for the pa
per, you'd better make it plain that you
didn't hev 5000 and more boxes like
mine all over your acre patch, and that
it was at the rate of 1000 bushels, not
actually that, for you'd hev all your
neighbors 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," And SO
thought HEzEK1AH.
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