The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-05-08

say at that rate, so why couldn't 1?
SO l went to work. / found n o
Sally AIMS old flower boxes out in the
shed that had five separate boxes or
apartments into it, and took it u into
the garden. Sally Ann spied me,
"What yer dom with my posy box out
there, Hezekiah!" seq she.
Experimental" seq 1. 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 hardisted laborers who edit ager-
cultural papers, and who kin do no
more nor I kin, a z 1900 bushels?
That's what I want to know" At that
Sally Ann went into the house and I
went to work.
As sed, the box was five feet long
inside measure, and exactly one foot
wide. I Numbered the plots l, 2, 3, a, s.,
got some good soil and put in all just
alike, then mixed in, or else put on arter
wards, several kinds Of these yer later
fertilizers they tell SO much about Il
don't give no names, as that might add
vertise EN- a little, you know, only on
n plot [ didn't put zone.
Well then come the question of how
many eyes to the hill, SO / put 'em in
No. l, one eye; No. 3, 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 a young hedge, they was
so rank! 1t bein' out of the question to
do much with q horse and plough, l
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,
10 taters or 10 quarts; plot 4, 8 and 8,
and plot s, 30 and IL quarts. "There
you be-" seq 1, "all easy fgurin', and
figurs don't lie"
Let's see, now! Altogether I raised
46 quarts in a box containin' 5 square
feet. Accordin' to old Daboll, in an
acre there is jest AZ, 1850 square feet, and
in 46 quarts there's jest l.4375 bushel,
that is, n bushel and so much over.
Now if I divide 43, $50 by S, that1l tell
how many 5-foot boxes I'd hev in an
acre, which gives 9,712 boxes. But in
every box thar would of course be
1.4375 bushel. so multiply SIP by
1.4375 and it gives 12,5234 bushels.
That's cleer. "Thar you hev it," sew I,
1--WE beet the world. Tell everybody
Uncle Hezekiah has raised 12,523AA
bushels of taters to the acre, and there's
your fgurs. It's as plain as the nose
on your face" SEE I to myself. But
speekin' q leetle too loud Sally Ann
overheard me, and she seq, whats SO
awful plain, Hezekiah?"
"Why, these yer Eaters and these yer
figures" seq I.
"Them is whoppers," SEE she, "both
taters and fgurs; and now you've done
so well, Hezekiah, I 'sposa you'll plant
that big side-hill lot next spring and
show folks how to raise IL, 700 bushels
on every acre, but you'll hev to Civ
your individual attenshun to each in
diyidual 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 II 900 bushels, moi
actually that, for you'd hev all your
neighbors latin st you, Hezekiah, jest
as they do at these big yields of corr
and potaters they read about in some
of u agricultural papers" And sc
thought HEzEkIAH.
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