The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-10

sprout potatoes this season and the eNpeil
ments have cost me at least hitsen pushe'b ~
potatoes; but you need not 90 70 enp' ,t va
pense was better able 10 lose them ihan
anyone else for raised them myself eau
waste paper now in descrlhihg me TOUT va
successful ways | tried for spfohuhs pots
toes but have another paper at nome NV
,Iournnl--through which ite fortunate reaueis
may learn to avoid the unsueaessiul Ways ~
they wish. Tint method which regard hs the
most successful is M follows; rIapai ',ot !,
nlaoo OF eufiictent size on good mellow, wen
drained ground. Cover this at least lool
deep with hay or straw ana let II remain w
III you want TO put out your potatoes 70
sprout The potatoes for seed should be w
smallest you have up TO nice size Tor the
table Before putting them out 10 sprou.,
treat them for mn hour and nall OF W.
hours 10 a solution OF one ounce OF corrosive
sublinate 10 nine gallons OF water, IN u
wooden vessel. The coroaye sublimate, deaaiy
poson may be dissolved Ia gallon OF NOT
water much quicker than IN cold After be,
ing thus treated and dried, choose cooJ
time. carly In the morning or on CLOUDY
day. remove the mulch and place your pota.,
toes down about two or three inches deep and
pretty close together then MI all the inter-
s,ices, or spaces between the tupers WIN
cool earth from under the mulch leaving .ne
tops OF them scarcely uncovered NOW. re-
place the mulch over the potatoes same depth
/ as before. Unless the earth and mulch a.s
i dry. there will be no need OF watering tnen
artihcially All this should be done before
sunrise while the earth, potatoes ana mnlcn
are cool They should be examined apout
once a week and whenever the tarth ~ ~
! foiently moist and there nre sproutfa po.s
/ toes, plant all that are sprouted ana no otns's
| Az soon as development and lite appears " .
pntato eve II will grow, but hah better pe "e
veioped more before planting
/ II the land Is sandy with goon naIuIss,
drainage the planting may be done on heaIy
| fat but we'll drained, land Open the grounu.
whether bedded or Nat. with buli-tonsue
lust enough to catch the potato nlceiy, mn
drop the whole tuber about Twelve or IouIsts. a.
inches apart In rows thirty-sx or iorty ihsn hn
apart, and cover them about four incnsn s us
1 AZ soon as the ground Is In gooa conu.iol
sftey the hrst rain put In q cultivator ana ,a
throw the cath towards, but not over .no
niants II weeds start before rain CONF ,,,.i
rniiva,e tust the same. After the nrst cuiu,
y.tinn Z, II remains dry. put In wide shower
Nov. throwing the earth from the center pp p,
wsys 10 nrotect the plants against poss'pl..
dry spell. II only light frost comes; nS'
SUFFICIENT to kill the stem. let me-, Men - he
+ but as soon as the vine - IN S' Even with.
: i,ttls below, the surface with a sharp
hoe This will prevent the poison IN KS
frosted vine from inturing the tnnet " y,
nu ,i,ne after this that you need them o.
: van, 10 nrotect them from freezing, ,...,.
! fertilzed my potatoes with DIME so'u sos,
, pane. available the frst season ,his cu ~
about "a per acre planted my peta''ss IA "a 4
4 Triumph variety, this fail. sep,enps, , a" ,w,
anu Thee are very nne and OF good sixe
7 aers ia a fair sample. tgxhiblts sempie,,
i haye an acre Of these potatoes ann tns s.s Ian
y is T." r.rfect and the patch beautiiui VA
vou h ace II. Here II is. tExhin'u pno'o
a sraph OF the patch.l ,
J. y certified all but two rows. ana thete
o quite . marked difference IN FAVOR ~ ~