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more In cutting potatoes for SEED
than most farmers think. Some will
cut without looking to see whether
there are one or five eyes on a cut.
l start ON the stem end and cut up,
being careful to get at least two eyes
on piece, and when l get up to
where the eyes are close together !
cut the seed smaller, but have no
less than two or more than four eyes
on a piece Of seed. AS fast as cut
the seed / sprinkle plaster on them
SO that they will not bleed. cut
the seed six to ten days before l
pant.
When l am ready to plant I drop
one thousand pounds of fertilizer to
the acre in the rows, then drop the
seed sixteen inches apart and cover
about four inches deep. If man has
no potato planter, good horse hoe
is very nice tool to cover with.
After planting watch for them to
break ground, and as soon as / see
few coming through l drop five hun
bred pounds of fertilizer to the acre
between the plants where they are
up and sixteen inches apart where
they are not up and then cover up
the potato and fertilizer tightly. AS
soon as the potato shows again I
again cover it. I cover three times,
very lightly the last time, and at the
same time run cultivator between
the rows twice week, for the soil
cannot be stirred too much. By fire.
quent use of horse hoe and cultivator
keep down the weeds.
never use hand hoe, as there is
no need of it. The horses will do
the work best If taken in time before
the weeds get start. After the tops
get about eight inches high I horse
hoe, and again when the tops are
about a foot to fifteen inches high.
Checking bugs and blight-The
most important part is to keep down
the bugs and to spray so that the
potato will not blight or rot. I use
hand sprayer and spray two and
sometimes three times. There are
rot, but we cannot predict those
years SO I spray every year.-A. T.
Gribbfns in Massachusetts Plough.
man.
COW HOLDING UP HER MILK.
One of the mysteries that troubled
my boyhood days was how COW
could hold up her milk, and that
same matter is worrying good many
people yet. The fact is, COW does
not and cannot hold up her milk, but
she does what has the same effect,
she fails to elaborate it. Most of the
milk COW gives is elaborated; that
is, becomes milk after the milking
has been begun. Suppose COW were
shot just at the time of milking, and
her udder cut open, do you suppose
you would get the bucket full of milk
you would have expected had you
proceeded to quietly milk her in the
ordinary way? On the contrary, you
would have nothing but bunch of
milky, bloody glands. The milk is
not there. By some process known
only to nature, the milk producing
system of the COW relaxes when milk
ing begins, the milk glands secrete
very rapidly and the stream flows out
in response to the pressure.
Sometimes, however, the milk fails
to respond to the manipulation as at
other times, and then we say the COW
is holding up her milk. The fact is
the proper relaxation has not taken
place; the glands are not working
with their accustomed activity, and
we fail to get the milk because it is
not there to get. Many causes pro-
duce this effect The COW may have
been chased or frightened in an un-
usually way, she may have been beat
en-, strange mixer may be at her
side, strange people may be in the
yard, her accustomed feed may be
absent, or any other matter that dis
turbs her quiet or prevents her from
feeling entirely at home. may have
this unhappy effect. Some cows are
much worse in this respect than 9TH
ers, because some are much more
easily disturbed than others.
The point is to learn the cows dis
position and make her feel entirely at
home at milking time. You may
break her from undesirable habits,
but you must do so at the expense of
portion of her milk until she gets
accustomed to the change.-Up-to-
Date Farming.