The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-07

] good policy, but as rule 1t Is very bi d
! one.
The Fdrmer Review says: We have
carefully watched the results of expert
ments in raising potatoes in the past
two or three years, and summing them
all up, reach the following conclusion,
which accord with our own experience:
First-There is not enough difference
in the vitality and productive quality Of
the eyes taken from different parts of
the potato to warrant the selection of
some and rejection OF others.
Second-Pianting whole seed does not
give increased yields sufficient to war
rant the use of SO great an amount of
seed.
Third-Cutting to single eyes and
planting two pieces to the hill, twelve
to sixteen inches apart gives the best
average results in marketable potatoes.
Fourth-Po Potatoes require a deep.
mellow seed-bed with mellow soil be
low, and on either side as well as over
them.
Fifth-Fresh, unfermented manures
are injurious to the quality OF the crop.
The stable manure used should be
thoroughly rotted and well incorpor-
ated with the SOIL
Sixth-Of special manures, wood
ashes, salt, ground bone and gypsum
have given good results, though on
some soils they might be scarcely per
ceptIble.
Seventh Moderately deep planting
and level culture is better on most soils
than shallow planting and killing up.
Making good starch is a necessary ac-
complishment of house wife. Here
are explicit directions from an ex-
change: Take an earthenware bowl
holding three quarts, dissolve IN it two
large spoonfuls of best clear starch, with
a cup of cold water. Have your kettle
boiling. On this depends the whole
matter; the steam must not only be
coming out of the spout, but do you lift
the lid and see that the water is bub-
bling. Take the kettle from the fire and
pour rapidly on the thoroughly dis
solved starch till 1t turns the color of
cooked starch. Stir rapidly all the
while and be careful to pour on only
enough water to make the starch OF the |
right thickness. 1 take some OF the |
starch out OF the bowl ;and thin it with |
cold water. After dipping the collars,
cuffs, etc., in that / rub some of the |
thicker starch on the wrong side. 1
add a few drops of bluing.
pinch of salt. sometimes |
stir the starch round two or three times
with a candle. always put in, how
ever, turpentine in the proportion of a
small teaspoonful to two quarts of
starch. l can assure you if you follow
he directions given, your clothes Will
ron most beautifully.
You will see by the recipe there is no
reed to place the bowl anywhere near
he fire. Boiling starch ten or fifteen
minutes is only waste OF time and la
Dor. There is another advantage in
he way l have mentioned. 1t takes
UGH little while to make it, and fresh
tarch is so much nicer than after it
las stood an hour. For a large wash
ng you can make it two or three times
+ necessary.
For the best success a series of plant
ngs OF vegetables should be made.
commencing with radishes and lettuce.
Plant as early in the season as the
weather. will permit, always bearing in
mind that 1t is folly TO put seeds in the
'round when it is cold and wet. A
PLANTING of radishes should be made
very ten days until the first of June,
tier which time do not plant again un-
il September, as in this climate radishes
4 midsummer are worthless. Peas
hould also be sown in succession until g
he first of June. Plant few a. a i
lme, IN order that the whole crop may g
e consumed when in the best possible i
it is far better to eat canned
eas than half-ripened ones from the
ines. A planting of peas can be made
advantage alter early potatoes, if the
roper kinds are selected, and for this 5
urpose 'Henderson's First of all. > or L
theirs of that class are best. It is folly
0 plant so late the large, wrinkled var
etles, as crop of miIdew would be Sc
ured IN September instead of delici-
US vegetable. Two paintings of beets
n spring and one in August will keep
p a succession OF this vegetable, tender
M sweet. Sweet corn should be plant
d every week, say twenty hills at a Z
me, from the first of May till the mid I
lie OF July. This will afford an ample !
lPpiy fOrnearly three months. Beans
hould be planted at intervals of three
IeekS, the last planting to be made
bout the middle of July. This crop.
not wanted for snap-beans. can be
sed to goo6ladvantage for picking.
A small planting of strap leaf turnip
aould be made as early as possible in /
ne season, and another on the ground I
acre the early peas were grown. A
tier planting can be made, as well as
ne of ruta-bagas, where the early po-
.toes were grown. In any vacant
laceS, If such there are in the garden. a
nall patch of spinach should be cult
ated, If for no other purpose than to.
i'm under as vegetable manure. 1t
OF the greatest importance to make ;
q early and late planting of tomatoes.
or the first, put out Strong, stocky
Iants; for the second, drop a seed or
70 In each hill of early corn, and as
ION as the corn is done cut the stalks
the ground, and a splendid crop of :
will be secured, which will be
Try useful after the first has ripene d
5 best fruits.
By this method of planting the gar
N will yield more than double its
'ual crop, and the vegetables will be
r better than the Struggling. tough.
things usuallT Gathered.
asides, it will add greatly to the
easures of gardening TO have every
ing look fresh and healthy the whole
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