The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-21
SWEET AND IRISH POTATOES.
The Value of the Roller on Light Po-
rous Soils-Points About Late Crops.

The Value of the Roller on Light Po-
rous SoiIs-Points About Late Crops.
Editor Morning News Please answer
the following questions in the agricult-
ural department of the MORNING News:
viii the last of June or first of July be
too late toplant sweet potatoes2
What is the best chemical fertilizer for
sweet potatoes, and how must prepare a
bed for sprouts, and also what is best
way to prepare and plant in field after
they are spouted! Will virgin, piney woods
land need any fertilizers first year. il
good Can / buy bunch yam slips now,
and who from, and costl
How should prepare new piney-wood,
sandy land for Irish potatoes, and what
is the best chemical fertilizers to use and
the quantity per acrel What is the best
seed for fall crop Ito plant July u, and
how many Will it take 1.-TWO eyes to each
piece 10 plant an acre.
BY keeping in mind 1 am a perfect
''greeny' about above questions, and
answering as full and plain as possible,
you will do me great favor. The loca-
tiOn these are to be planted is in Worth
county Southwest Georgia.. Soil is red,
pebbly, piney-wood soil, that is rolling
and new.
Answer-We are not aware that any
the date you give. OF course the plants
can be set out at that time with every
probability of making nearly maximum
crop, but we should not like risking on a
large scale the starting of crop from
the potato We can only advise you to
try few bushels and find out. If your
potatoes are sound lit is rather late for
| them to be plump and without sprouts)
you can by copiOus watering soon have
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by Aug. 10 if not a little earlier. We
| have set out plants in Middle Georgia as
late as that and made very good crops,
but we have never belded later than
April >. In bedding lay the potatoes in
we'll pulverized soil two to three inches
apart, having the beds about four feet
wide Cover two inches with fine soil.
Apply water until the ground is well
saturated several inches below the pota-
toes, then put on an inch or so of the fine
soil, then mulch several inches with
straw. Apply more water in three or
four days if it should not rain.
AS a-fertilizer there is hardly anything
better than fine bone (bOne DUST, 800
pounds and hardwood ashes, 1000 pounds
per acre This should not be applied in
lust one furrow, but should be divided
amongst the three burrows or five, that
90 TO make up the bed. If more con-
venient you can use 500 pounds of cotton
seed hull ashes in place of the wool
ashes.
The trouble with such soil as you
describe it is rather too open for best re-
suits After making the bed with scooter
or shovel it should be well firmed by run
ming a heavy roller over it before setting
out the plants, and the cultivation after
ward should be just as shallow as posi-
BILE
You can secure plants of the bunch
VAN. we have no doubt, from c. G. Dill,
DHlburgh, Ala, or j. B. buckett & Sons,
Abbott Clay county, Mississippi. Surely,
there is some one growing the bunch
yam in your county, If not it is time
some one began growing this excellent
variety.
The fall or second crop of Irish potatoes
is usually grown from seed made in the
first crop Good unsprouted northern
potatoes of the early kinds are not usual
iy to be had as late as July. The early
Ohio or Rose or Beauty of Hebron are
good kinds.
| When cut to two eyes it requires from
eight to ten bushels, according to width
of row and distance IN the row TO plant
one acre. The fertilizer that is good for
the sweet is good for the Irish. BY no
means use any rank, unfermented ma
nure for these crops. AS remarked IN
reference to sweet potatoes, the roller is
the chief implement needed OF your soil to
fit it for profitable result. This IS some,
thing vet to be learned by the majority OF
farmers who have land like yours.
In another column we reproduce some
remarks in reference TO this second crop.