Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-19


others; some grow best on loamy soils,
while others will do well on clay lands.
The cooking quality should be care
fully examined into. The selection OF
the variety means half the battle. Do
not neglect this important matter as
Is so often done with disastrous re-
suits.
In a test at the Maryland station
IL was found that home grown seed
made a yield or "a bushels more per
acre than that obtained from Maine.
At the Rhode Island station IT was OBJ
served that nine out OF IA varieties
of potatoes imported from northern
Maine produced an average increase OF
IL bushels per acre; whereas, FIVE
out OF IL varieties OF homo grown
seed produced an increase of 20.94 BUSH
els per acre. While the source OF seed
thus has an influence, this data would
indicate that local strains can often be
used to the best advantage, and this
seems to be the consensus OF opinion Of
many growers in the south who now
use second crop seed for spring plant
ing.
AS TO the best varieties to grow, that
viii depend largely on the locality,
though there are a few standard va
rieties which give good results over a
wide territory. Among the best stand
ard early varieties are Bliss Triumph,
Crown Jewel, Early Northern, Early
Rose. Irish Cobbler and Eastern Purt-
tan Among the best late varieties are
Green Mountain, Gold Coin, Beauty OF
Hebron, Burbank, Eureka. Carmen No.
1 and Freeman.
DISEASES OF THE POTATO.
Potatoes are subject TO various dis
eases. the most important Of which is
the late blight, caused by the parasitic
fungus, phytoptora infestant. The
ravages of this fungus are so serious
that much attention has been given
to its control, because IL is not worth
while to carefully prepare land and fer
tilize IL heavily. and then allow the
crop to be destroyed by this disease
when IL can be effectively controlled
by spraying with the Bordeaux mix
ture which may be prepared according
to the standard formula as follows:
Sox pounds OF copper sulphate, four
pounds of fresh stone lime and 40
gallons Of water. The lime should be
slaked and diluted with half Of the
water and the copper sulphate dis
solved in the other half, and the two
diluted solutions poured into a third
vessel at the same time while the
mixture is being constantly stirred. II
desired to destroy bugs and other leaf
eating insects at the same time, one
half pound OF Paris Green may be
added to the mixture.
The benefits from spraying with the
Bordeaux mixture as a result OF ten
years Investigations at the New York
station may be summarized as fol-
lows: Five sprayings increased the yield
233 bushels and three sprayings, 191
bushels, the gain being due chiefly to
the prolongation Of growth. The spray
ed potatoes also contained one-ninth
more starch and were OF better quail
~ in every way. The gain from spray
ing on A farms was 5S.5 bushels per
acre, the profit on field operations from
spraying was in the neighborhood OF
$22 per acre. Similar results were OBJ
tanned at the Vermont station where
an increased yield of 124 pounds per
acre resulted from timely spraying with
Bordeaux mixture. At the Maine sta
ton spraying resulted in not only pro-
longing the life OF the plants, but
increased the starch content by 1.6
per cent The protection Of the potato
from the attack OF pernicious insects
and fungus diseases is so vitality relat-
ed to its successful cultivation that
1t has been deemed wise TO incorporate
the above information in this paper.
TREATING A COUGH IN HORSES.
8. O. c., Whitehall, Ca, writes: have
horse IL years old. He has a bad
cough and nothing I give him seems to
do any good. When he takes a long drive
he is worse than at other times.
The following is a good prescription
for a chronic cough in the horse:
Fluid extract Of belladonna, 4 drachms
Muriat OF ammonia, 1 ounce.