Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-09-21
rnIsu POTATO CULTURE.
Nr. Ford Gives ii- Experience In
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Detail.
I. 20 you put dirt Ia tho boxes aud bar
reia to snrout potatoehg
y DO YOU plant tho old potatoes with
xprouted cncsg Yes, plant them all 10.
Eethsr. Let the bunch Of potatoes fall
Into the mriow and part rtayn Oh the
haik, which makes row about fourteen
O. s,S,esen Inches square across The tey.
like other potatocEg Yes, the TOP or bush
grows eight feet and sOmatimcs ten
( feet high, and the. size OF a mans finger
or thumb. Tho richcr the land the highcr
/ the tops,
1, How many bushels OF potatoes 90 YOU
IT,, or pant 70 .s one acre. n.c ny
taio has as my eyes az iafsc one and
sg Sd w 'SsI y sESDp 0l n tc On ya", ny
tho eyes gct fewer, hut take the com.
mon potatoes Of the country and II Will
bushels 70 !he acre 10 have seed to pN,
! twenty or thirty seed POTATOES 20 the hill
g, What degree ~ heat do you heat the
/ spruut houseG Summer hoat. or u or 80
degrees Tho charcoal kmokr lgoes into
the room. but does not hurt anything,
| q. ! have no phutogrhuhs TO Hcll, Nou
can get one from r. II. story, photos-
4 i have received cirhty.six letters and
cards asking how keep POTATOES from
give space. aud Tho readers OF fhs ioat
will do as directed, they can keep pota-
toes twelve months and no mistake. Thia
Ia no theory as | have been raising i,uta-
toes In Texas forty-olNht years. aud !
go snSt II ,a ssSs ~ Y sss dS q a
thoroughly maturcd 10 keep. wait ulltit
my Wines or tops are dead TO dis, An
dug In dry time. and tho potatoes well
| summed and dried, THE sun Will not iniurc
them, I Keep my potatoes under . ahod
time through tho hottest summer monthb
and tho sun shines on them every, morn
ling and evening The potatoes lay ON
the ground, which Is sandy, Keep gocd
many cattle and I have Fhedn Tor Them
TO 10 under IN the winter aud eptlns, and
IA tho summer ! nut my ppigtoeh ur'er
h6uas with double wallis ilicd With saw
dust which In frost proof with a noot
twelve inches high from tho GROUND, all
tho potatocs Here IL the nclrot OF
banking potatoes--thcy must be hept geol
by the air passing w through taem, ihs
walls of tho house so down TO ilc gtnunu
all around. and on the south side have
la door twelve inchos wide hnd two or
three fcet long to open TO iet thg nv
top. and In cold freezing weather ] shut
the door. The air VIII pass M through
bank OF p9lei,o,cs ~ &c, hgn ss ana aoi no
toes both this way and ! now have po-
tatncs that grow last year In my house
/ TnNN never 40 fnlt NuA WlA hls
Of ali tho dirierant kinds OF potatoqn
the host 10 keep " tho Triumph. u VIII
also grow and make q good crop IN dry
weather when other kinds would he near.
potatoes to the acre. with the Early Rose
than any kind over grow. ! put my pc
| tatpOs six to twelve inches doen under tho
shod In summer aud six feet IN tho house
lin winter Potatoes well mnturOd, aug
dry, well summed and In frosty weather
Well ventilated will Keep twelve months
! and M trouble.
me amount Of potatoes grow TO the
aero can hardly be- believed by aoino, eev-
my aettlement and eoveiM persons from
dffercnt parts Of the county came 70 my
house the day before TO be- al the grange
the next day, md was digsinE my po'
tatoca Rt the time. They came to my no
tato patch and all Of thom naid that inere
wero more ro, pS, ro ,h ns grons may fSeeyy
wanted 10 dig and measure u row thgy
did 40 and measured and nEured ahdsnnde
a calculation ard ono Of them said "Thh
viii not do a, ALI surely no pcrron can o.
will believe II. aH II " not reasonable
Md no II ~ with some ~ the readers OF
The Post about the 5000 bushels per acre.
10 got thu largest amount OF POTATOES
from the small amount OF ground You
grow your potatoes In pens. IN the year
iTO commenced 10 grow Irish potatoeA IN
peim. and win give the readers ~ The
Post my experience, as u viii soon bo
time 10 commence 20 plant IN pens, have
rnnc fodder and crushed cane. The rlh.
hon or sugar cane fodder N the best,
nut the fodder IN rail pens when pulled
of tho cane and about every twelve or
eighteen inches I put potatoes, about one
to every square foot and 10 on until thH
| pcn IL az nigh a. you can mt tho onnc,
| which N about eight or ten feet high The
cattle eat whnt fodder thoy want through
tho winter and the rest stays IN tue rehn.
| leave tho ton of the fodder, 10 that II
Will catch all tho fall and winter rains
hnd ia tho AprinR the potatoes commence
TO Hprout and ,grow' and AZ the lower
down tho weather noes 70 the potatoes
rprout aud grow ana some times " takes
three months time 90 gct the whole pen
| OF potatoes TO growing, which II OIL the
better nr YOU have freHh young potatoes
longer, and the potatoes are much winter
thar those crown In the ground, ANA
with some potatoes they nre nearly N
white when pulled out OF the pen ns tur-
nips, I nH0 eight feet rails, which make
| a non about seven feet square. inside
about thirty squHre feet. and eight 20
twelve feet hlgh will grow never less than
| 100 bushels, and uH many ~ 200 very
wet ysnr. There " nothing 10 make the
POTATOES grow hut the wet. rotten fodder,
aud II " the best way to grow potatoes
II one has tho straw or fodder. Suppof.
Ing that you only make 100 buahola. which
! IL d very low calculation, you could make
over 300 bushels Of potatoeA In pens on
an acre Of ground. O. 10, Ford.
Rusk, Texas.