Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-15

be selected than is believed NAV be
wanted for planting, so when planting
time comes, a second selection can be
made. In doing this all that do not
have good, strong eyes should be re-
jected. If the potatoes have been kept
just as they should be, at planting
time the eyes will have started just
enough to show their strength, and
yet not enough to cause them to be in
injured by careful handling, which
should always be done with seed po-
tatoes; to handle them as though they
were stones is wrong, especially If early
potatoes are desired.
The first sprout that starts is not
only the strongest, but will produce
the earliest potatoes. When the
sprouts are several inches long at
planting time, without the most care
full handling they will be broken off,
but when handled with great care, and
planted so as to preserve the sprout
without injury, it will not only secure
g. crop one or two weeks earlier,
but it will also secure a much
larger crop than if the sprouts
are broken off. This we have proved
by actual trial. If farmers would give
little more attention to their seed
potatoes they would not so often be
at loss to account for a small crop.
There is more in having seed in good
condition than most of farmers think
In very rich soil it does not make so
much difference, as in poor soil; but
even in a rich soil it makes a. difference,
whether the seed is in the highest con-
dition or not.-Ploughman.
Hlgh-Priced Seeds.
In many Offices around and in the
big Produce Exchange there are num-
erous little shallow boxes piled on
window-sills, tables, and desks. The
boxes are generally filled with corn
and wheat and other grain, samples of
the stocks held in the big elevators
and stores along the river-fronts and
in the fleets of canalboats in the
Brooklyn basins. A grain-dealer was
running his hand through sample OF
No. spring wheat, when a young
man said:
"Good as gold"
eyes, but, unlike some other farm
products, it is not worth it's weight in
gold"
"Squashes, for instance?"
'Perhaps you would like to know
something about high-priced farm
products. There is a new variety OF
oats called the Clydesdale A meas.
ured bushel weights fifty-one pounds.
While they will not retain their full
weight in this country, they willdouble
the market value OF the product OF
an oatfield. The enterprising farmer
pays SIS a bushel for the seed There
is the new Fife spring wheat, which
sells for So a bushel, and the new
style OF field corn, known as Chester
Mammoth and Golden Dent, sells fol
about the same.
Gin the matter of garden seeds, the
farmer must pay prices that make
him squeal. Last year Newark man
brought out what is known as Hen
derson's white plume celery. Unlike
common celery it does not need to be
banked up to whiten the leaves, and
what is more, these leaves are as
much like ostrich feathers as anything
you can imagine. During the Ameri
can Institute Fair the plants on exhi
bltiOn were torn to pieces by guests
who used the leaves for buttonhole
bouquets. The seed man who is in
Producing the plant paid $3.50 for g
small truck-load of the plants, and he
now sells the seed at $40 pound.
"a new French bean is now selling
at SO cents quart. The new Eclipse
beet seed sells for $2.50a pound, while
the seed of the new lettuce called OAK
Leaf sells for So nm ounce. Even 8
new variety of parsley is high priced
the seed of the style called Emerald
selling for 50 a pound.
"You sarcastical]y mentioned the
squash. That was because you didn't
know all about squashes. There was 8
specimen OF new squash on exhibition
in this town last fall for several weeks
that weighed 223 pounds. It's flavor
was as excellent as it's size was enor
nous. The seeds obtained from this
big squash sellfor three cents piece, OF
So an ounce.
"But when you want to buy farm
products that are really worth thei1
weight in gold you must take thu
flower seeds raised by the farmers
wife. This year there is a great varie
ty of new flowers. 1t would bewildel
you to name them. The seeds are al
ways sold by the packet at from Is tc
SO cents. That sounds cheap, but
there are new styles in daisies, LADY,:
slippers, petunias and pansies, tn.
seeds of which are worth in the market
by the ounce sum that will take YOU
breath away. Thepetunia grandihors
is a sample. 1t is an exceedingly
beautiful flower. Thepackages ofseeds
contain 800 or 400 seeds each, but tn,
seed is an impa]pable powder almost
it is SO fine. The package retails al
IS cents, but by the ounce the seed i.
worth $500. An ounce will make 5,
600 packages. You can see what tn
retail price of flower seeds and the re
tailer's profits are from that state
ment. New York Sun.
Would He Squeeze Her to Death
A novel case was lately before {
London police court, where a woman
anDlied for a. writ AGAINST her husband