News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-04-23
FARM AND GARDEN.
sEASONABLE REMARKS FROM the
BEST Authorities
What Variety of Potatoes TO Plant-ValHe of
CnrnstuILs as Fodder-HOw TO Treat
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WHAT VARIETY OF POTATOES TO PLANT.
If you want potatoes rs early as pos
sible, select the best early potato you
can find. The genuine Early Rose is
good enough and early enough. The
Beauty of Hebron is equally good, and
there are a dozen other varieties any one
of which, if you happen to have it, will
ripen as early and give satisfaction. If
any one tells you he has a potato that
will ripen two weeks earlier than the
Rose or Beauty of Hebron, and yield as
much again per acre, tell him that it is q
most valuable variety, and that he had
better plant all he has got and not sell
tuber to anyone else for seed. For early
potatoes, plant in good, rich, mellow soil
as soon as the frost is ont of the ground.
You can hardly plant too early. Until
the plants appear, severe frosts will not
hurt them. When the plants nre up
frost will lometimea destroy the crop, or
at any rate, seriously retard or injure it.
piece of paper or light covering OF
soil will save the plant For winter pc.
tatoes, select variety that Possesses at
least four points, viz: quality, vigorous
growth Of leaves to resist the potato
bugs, good keeper and productivcnees.
When the potato buqs frat appeared,
everybody planted early varieties Of po-
tatoes, in hopes Of getting ahead Of tho
bugs. Now that we know how TO keep
the bugs in check VIC can plant later
kinds. AS rule, tho early varieties
cannot yield rs well as the later sorts,
which have longer season TO grow in;
or if they do in exceptional cases IL Is
probably owing TO unusual richness Of
land. On ordinary land, other things
being equal n late variety will yield bot
ter, and keep better (tbe next Bpring),
than the early varieties A late variety
Of pots should be planted as early ~
the soil can be got into good condition.
IL you do not wish TO plant early-or
perhaps we had better say, if you are
behind with your work and cannot plant
as early as you wish, plant an early va
riety. The later you plant, the earlier
should be the variety planted. The same
principle or rule as to planting, applies
to cabbages, cauliflOwers, tomatoes, Gu
cumbers, melons, turnips, corn, beans,
peas, etc. The earlier the variety, that
is, the quicker it natures, the later can
it be sown or planted. A!gri-
culturtSt.
VALUE OF CoRNsTALKs AS FODDER
Prof. Henry, at the last annual meeting
of the Wisconsin State Dairymen's AS
ISOLATION, gave the results of expert
ments made at the State College Farm to
determine the value of cornstalks as
fodder. Two COWS were fed on corn
stalks and two on hay, each couple for
three weeks, then they reversed and fed
them three weeks longer, so as to min
COWS themselves. The result of that
experiment was that one pound of hay
was estimated as worth two pounds of
cornstalks. The yield of stalks to the
acre being one and three-quarter tons,
was therefore nearly equal to one ton of
hay, and in addition there were fifty
bushels of shelled corn. The stalks were
fed uncut, with a waste of about 40 per
cent The milk and butter yield of the
COWS was the same whether fed on hay
or stalks, both as regards quantity and
quality.
How TO TREAT PLUM TREEs.-After
trying almost every plan recommended
for freeing the trees of vermin with very
little success last spring [ thought of
a plan I had not heard of before. We
got some roll birthstone, melted it in an
iron vessel and dipped strips of cotton
flannel in it. When dry, on the first
calm morning after the blossoms fell we
put few bits of the sulphur rags in
bee fumigator, then lighted it and went
under the trees and pulled the smoke
up through the limbs. We did this for
TWO or three weeks, feeding the chickens
under the trees every day. Our trees
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