Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-05-27
AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN.
Interesting Letters From Hancock
County Farmers.


The tillage number OF the bulletin is
sued by the State board OF agriculture
last week contain. the following letters
| from Hancock county:
BLUEnILI.-To secure good results with
| hoed crops, with the least labor, would
| plant them on sod ground So far prac-
tIcsble, using only commercial fertilizers,
| to avoid weeds Would use my barn
dressing for grain. Would pillow quite
deep, say six or eight inches, IN the fall,
| and roll with heavy roller. For some res'
/ son which | cannot explain, rolling seems
| to give a better crop. gentleman near
/ here tells me he gets good results by SOW
! ing barley and clover on sod with phos-
| phste for the hoed crops The ground
should be thoroughly narrowed, as deeply
possible. Ground well narrowed is
| half hoed. | do all my CultiSattng and
| hoeing with a horse; have no use for
| hand hoe. | drive tw ice in each aisle and
| cultivate one side Of row each time. BY
! SO doing can work nearer the plants.
do not cultivate more than once or twice,
! as | think the injury to the roots OF the
! plant by frequent or late cultivation more
than counterhalances any benefit they
| may receive. II. Il. GRAY.
WEST EDEN=There Is one met hod that
use when | can to lessen the cost OF
! planting potatoes, and that Is to furrow
the ground quite deep, strew my terti-
| Iizer In the furrow as evenly as can,
drop my seed, aud harrow It In with a
spriugtooth harrow. But very few pieces
OF seed are distur bed. 1.-THE ground has
/ not been dressed | Sow a ton OF high
! grade fertilizer after the ground is fur
! ro~ed The harrow will work enough
into the hills TO give good crop. | have
purcha a Z Breed Weeder this spring,
and covered my peas " 1t h that very rap
/ Idly. lind that the weeder drag roots
and stick. on light soft; now what effect
4 is that going to have on the crops when
they come up9 | find by reading that
others use them successfully and ] am
gong to give II a trial.
AMOS c. h. GoTT.
>ort-lh order to u,c a werdcr with success
a. am hocd crop, the land must be- well pre-.
pared before planting Sticks and roots
tIras xei over plants do more damage than small
-tolc> and should bc removed either by hand
OF win a hor-r rake. We have found that a
Eight roltrc with an ordinary field roller before
planting hctI,cd very much 10 Urchk ~ the
clod- and lunches which might have been
dragged over the young piant~, aud believe ii -
he good Pra.tice On EEnt soti.->tcretdrg.
! HANcoCK Potatoes are about the only
hoed crop winch farmers here seem 10
thIuk there i any profit in growing.
Those " no have high, dry land, try to get
Their seed in rs early Rs possible, 80 a. TO
get their crops on the market in July aud
August, " hen at Bar Harhor they Viii
bring top prices, a potatoes that are
grown on our high, dry lands are OF
superior quality. Land that has been
planted the year before has been found
to bring on the crop little earlier than
greensward. The td-tas hlouei met nod
OF opening the burrows qujte deep with
the pio", by gong twice IN H turroN, and
putting tie manure in hills ana the seed
directly upon that is mostly employed.
Superpho- phste is used hy many rs a
supplementary fertilizer to hurry along
the crop; this II $50 most generally put