The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-01-23
ExPERIM ENTING.
Upele Hezekiah Tells the Result of His Ex-
perience In Raising Potatoes.

| peTience IN Raising HOtatOeS.
One night AFTER all the chores WI.
done last spring tho't, tho'ts /, e.
how l wud try sum experiments on pc
taters, ez I'd been readin' bout othel
farmers dom Sum of my agercultera
papers had been tellin' as how they had
RACED 1000, 1-200, and even 1,3O0 bush
els taters to the acre, or should say al
that rate, so why couldn't IL So went
to work. | found one of Sally AIMS
old flOwer-boXes out in the shed tina,
had five separate boxes or apartments
into it, and took it out into the garden
! Sally Ann spied ME. What yer doin'
with my posy box out there, Hezekiah?'
, SEE she.
Experimental" SEE l. 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 Manifested laborers who edit
agricultural papers, and who kin do nc
more nor | kin. rae 1,30O bushels
! That's what L want to know" At that
| Sally Ann went into the house and went
! to work.
/ As sed. the box was five feet long
inside measure. and exactly one foot
wide. l numbered the plots 1, 2, 8. 4.
! 5. got some good soil and put in all just
alike, then mixed in, or else put on ar,
forwards several kinds of these yer later
fertilizers they tell so much about
| q don't give 10 names, As that might
advertise EN- little. you know, only
on one plot didn't put none.
Well, then come the question of how
many Eyes 20 the hill, so | put 'em in
No. |, one eye; No. =, 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 bcin' out of the question
to do much with 4 horse and p!ow,
give 'em level culture with an old
trowel. But now for the result. Plot
l had 10 :aterS. measured 3 quarts;
plot =. 6 taters, measured quarts;
plot 3, II taters or 10 quarts: plot 4. S
and 8. and plot ). 80 and II quarts.
There YOU be- seq |. AL easy tigur-
in, and figures don't lie"
Let's see. now! Altogether / raised
46 quarts in box containIn' square
feet. Accorlin' to old Daboll, in an
acre there is Jest IS. 500 square feet, and
in IS quarts there's Jest 1875 bushel.
that is. one bushel and so much over.
Now if | divide Is. $50 by ). that'll tell
how many 5-foot boxes Id hev in an
acre, which gives SIP boxes. But in
every box thar would of course be
l-4375 bushel, so multiply SIP by
1.4375 and it gives 12,523I bushels:
That's clecr. Thar you hev it." seq
|. 1--WE beet the world. Tell everybody
Uncle Hezekiah ha; raisel l2,523l
bushels of taters to the acre, and there )
Your tigurS. Its as plain as .hc Dos5
en- Your face SEE | to myself. But
Speekin' leetie too loId Sally Am
overheard me. and she scz: What :
so awful plain. Hezekiah?'
why. III lose yer taters and these yer
figures. SCI |.
Them is whopperS. sez she. "bo:h
Eaters and tigurs; and now you've done
so well. HezeIiah. l s'pose you'll plant
that big side-hll lot next spring and
show folks how to raise 1900 bush. :
on every acre; but you'll hev to Civ
your individual a.tcnshun to each .ndi-
vidaal hill. Now, fore YOU write ont
your experiment. Hezekiah. for the pt-
Iers, you'd better make It plain hat
YOU didn't hcv 5000 and more ioNC<
ike mine al over Your acrs patch. and
that it was at the rate OF $4,000 bush
els. not actu ,lly that, for you'd hey Il !
our neighborS latin at you. Hc,c ,iaI,
jet as thcy do IT those big fields OF corn
and potatoes thev real alb Ut i'll some
II our agricultural papers. And
80 thought L-Ec-eEiGh,' IN or
COYatTg LIOHIC.