Milford chronicle., 1910-03-11
MILFORD GRANGE.

The topic Of interest at the Grange,
last Saturday, was Growing Of White
Potatoes"
Nh John Short said he should use
clover sod for white potatoes and manure
it heavy, plowing it in the fall and then
work it up with harrows, getting it in
good shape for spring. He plants with a
planter and uses from 500 to 1900 pounds
of phosphate. He advises cultivsting as
soon as planted and to continue as long
as possible. He finds scarlet clover sod
good for white potatoes and has raised
good crops Of late potatoes after it was
cut for lay
Mr. Hazard has grown white potatoes
on a small scale. lie ruus the rows ont
in the fall and ills the drench with
manure, in the spring be runs pillow
down the furrow and back, plants the
potatoes and covers them he finds be
grows better potatoes in that way.
Mr.. Harding generally manures his
ground heavily, broad cast he runs out
the rows and sows fertilizer ia the lows.
He drops the potatoes by hand, and drag
harrows the ground a little to kill the
weeds, then cutivates all that is possible
until the tubers get a good size.
Mr.. J. II. Rosa said they used timothy
sod for potatoes when they had H. Last
year they plowed up timothy sod and
manured it all over with stable manure,
plowing in the fall and cutting it up with
a harrow in the spring placed the ferti-
lizer in the rows, and planted with a
potato planter. They cultivate after
planting, as soon as there is a heavy rain,
to keep it from baking hard, and il one
does not harrow, the potatoes would not
amount to anything They have harrow
ed them when they could pick upenough
for dinner. The next thing Of import
ance is the bugs. They certainly have TO
bc kept off or the crop of potatoes is lost,
as potatoes cannot grow without leaves,
arsenate Of lead is cheaper than a crop
OF potatoes. When potatoes are at IS to
20 cents a basket, dig them for sale. III
one expects to grow four or five acres, he
would advise every man to get a digger,
if they cannot buy one, hire one. They
would save enough the first year to pay
for part of it. They have a Halet digger
and it was worth five times what it cost
last year. Practice level cultivation as
much as possible.
Mr. Armour said several Of his neigh
bors had good success in planting small /.
potatoes whole for late crop. They use
the potatoes about the size of walnuts
and find they come up splendidly.
Mr.. Barker said he bought some pota
toes, last year, from PhiIadelphia, the
Green Mountain variety they were solid |
and seemed to be all right When he had .
those planted, he found be had a few
baskets Of seed potatoes up in the barn
be thought it was a waste of time to
plant them, but the tenant planted
hem. Not one half Of the Green Noun
ain variety came up, but those planted
rom the barn produced so much better
nd were better potato.
The subject for March 18th is Butter
Making by Mr. Cook and wife. This
hould bring all members out next Satur-
ay, as it is the experience Of those who
nd it necessary to buy butter, that there
great room for improvement.
a vote was carried, at the last meeting,
bat each member this includes the
-omen also) start out, this coming year,
18th definite purpose to produce some
hing for exhibition at the harvest meet
lg Of the Grange, next fall