Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-03-20
EXPERIMENTING,
thcie Hezsk:aii Tell, the Result of His Ex
perirncc in Rai,ing Potatoes,

ehcie Hez"k-lii Tell, the Result of His Ex-
prrirncc in Rai>ins Potatoes.
One night AT r all the chores wus
done last @prjng | tho't. tho'ts ]. ez
now l wud try sum experiments on po-
taters, ez I'd been rcad.n' bout other
Farmers dom. sum of my agricultural
! papers had been t"llln' as how they had
Raced l,O9l. l.200, and even 1900 bus l.
els tatcrs To the acre. or should say at
That rate. % why couldn't /? SO went
10 work. | found one of Sally Ann :
old flower hoXcS out in the h d that
had live separate boxes or apartments
INTO Il, and took it out into the garden:
Sally Am sped me. What yer doin'
with my posy box out there, Hezekiaho"
ser she.
'ENncr,m"ntin'," >ez l. I'm Jest
gon' to Sc how many taters kin raze
on IN acre and prove it. What's tn.
evcrll t n u~'. If al'crs scratch;n' an
d'%-in for twenty-five bushels to the
acre and small ones to boot. when sum
: O. our harj-iistcd labulcIs WHO edit
! agricultural papers. and who kin do no
more nor ! kin, rae 1900 bushels
That's what | want 10 know" At tha
Sally Ann went into the house and went
to work.
As scd, the box was five feet lony
inside measure. and exactly one foot
wide. | numbered the plots l. =, ;. 4,
). got some good soil and put in all just
alike, then MIXED in, or else put on ar
forwards several kinds of these yer tat +
fertilizers they til SO much about
| Il don't give no names. As that might
adve. 81 en- Title, you know, only
on one plot didn't put none.
Well, then come the question of how
mary YES 20 the hill. so put 'cm in
No. /. oac eve: No. ,. two eve; No. 3,
three eye, and 50 on through the five
You should hcv seen them tatcr tops
grow thoa"h during tie summer
Looked lil>ra young hcd.r. they was
50 rank. 1t h'ia out of the question
To do much with horse and plow. |
give en- level culture with an old
trorel. Bat now for the result. Plot
hid 10 tat"r-, measured 8 quarts;
plot ;, Il tatcrS. measured Z quarts:
pot 3, T. t"t"r> or 10 quarts; plot 4. 8
aid =. and plot ). 80 aud II quarts.
"rnere you b. sz |. AL easy iigur-
III, and figure, don't lie
Lct Sc. now. Altogether | raised
i6 quart, in a box containn' ) square
feet. Accr,ln' TO old Daboil. in an
acr' there is jet i3,jGo square feet, and
N Is quarts there's Jest |. 1870 buslrl,
| that is. one bI>hri AMI so much over
Now if divide f.. .,p60 bv ). that'll tell
how many 5-fo,t boxes I'd hyv in an
acre, which "iyrs SIP boxes. But in
every box tlar would of course be
l.+37j hl~hel, 80 multiply SIP by
l.i3!j and it gives i2,I23l bushels:
That's clrcr. Thar you hey it," sez
|. "i'vc beet the world. Tell everybody
Uncle llez'kiah ha' RAISED l2,j23I
bushels of tatrr> II the acre. and there 5
Your igtrS. Its aS plain rs the nose
on your face. SCI | to myself. But
| sperhin' Il .cete too loud Sally Ann
oIcr.ic 'r'l M. and she srz: What ;
SO awful plain, Hczckiah?'
NV hy, these Yer taters and these yer
| figures. seL |.
! Them is who?pers." sez she. "bnth
tatcr> and iigur,; and now you've done
So wei, HczrH;ah, s'poSc You'll plant
ti'' VI Sh'-H'ii i'l HeAt NHi'HS anu
show folks how to raise l2.00l bushels
on every acre: but you'll hcv 10 Civ
Your individual % tenShun to each ridi-
vidual hill. Now. fore YOU write out
Your experiment, Uezckiah. for the pi-
ers, You Il better make 1t plain that
| YOU didn't hcv 5000 and more boxes
| like mine al over Your acrt patch, and
| that it WIS at the rate OF l2.NU0 bush
els, not actn lily that, for you'd hev all
our neighbors latin at you. Hezekiah.
jet Is they do at those biz Yields of corn
and potatoes they read ab ut in some
# our "agricultrral' papers. And
80 thought !. -Hc:ekiah,' in or
| CQAHirH ROllc