Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-04-22


Early OHIO and Triumph are most in
demand. For the southern market the
Triumph is used exclusively.
After the early market, the white
varieties, the Burbank, Rural New
Yorker and Carmen are by far the
best sellers and a farmer not making q
speciality of supplying the early
market, or growing stock for southern
trade should grow one of these three
varieties. These varieties not only
command the best market but they are
among the best yielding varieties.
COOPERATION IN POTAT
GROWING.
To sell potatoes to the best advantage
they most he sold In carload lots and
for q carload to sell well the potatoes
must be of the same variety: Thus
the importance of growing the same
variety throughout the community.
| Cooperate IN buying seed. Last
spring the Experiment Farm sent out
four carloads of seed potatoes, all Of
the same variety, and they were al
bought in cooperation. Instead OF
each individual farmer sending in an
order for a few bushels, all the
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wanted seed potatoes, dubbed together
They secured cheaper freight rate in
this way, it simplified matters great
deal IN shipping and it not only
resulted in q better potato crop but
1t gave the farmers little practice
in co operation, In doing business
| together. The Producers Co.opera-
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further development of the CORPORA
ton movement to enable farmers to
sell their potatoes and other farm
produce to better advantage.
This association will provide better
Northeastern Minnesota has had here
tofore and 1T is important to grow tor
this market only first-class products.
As good potatoes can be grown IN
Northeastern Minnesota as can be
grown anywhere IN tae world and il
the farmers are not Offering such for
remedied.
WHAT A GOOD POTATO CROP
DEPENDS UPON.
LIST. The seed: A standard variety
sound and free from scab.
End. A rich mellow soil, well
drained. thorough cultivation and
protection from blight, bugs, etc.
3rd. Assortment before putting on
the market. Keep the small potatoes
at home,
On the Northeast Experiment Farm
the growing of potatoes has been
given special attention. Last year on
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five bushels of potatoes were grown.
This was about what the average yield
has been, but the yield per acre has
| been increasing each succeeding year
as the fertility of the soil has been in
creased, which is being brought about
\, by an increasing number of stock on
the Experiment Farm, (more stable
manure.
The field that produced this crop OF
potatoes Was in fodder corn IN 1908,
IN clover in 1907 and in wheat in 1906.
It was MANFRED for the fodder corn
and again for the potatoes at the rate
of ten loads per acre.
This series OF crops constitute a
tour-year rotation, potatoes being
grown on the same field but once IN
every four years.
THE BEST YIELDING VARIETIES.
Sixty-five different varieties of
potatoes have been grown on the Elk.
pertinent Farm as test of their yield
and quality. AS a result of this test,
covering several years, the Carmen
potato is now grown exclusively as a
field potato on the Experiment Farm.
Its yield has been higher than that
of the Burbank or Rural New Yorker
and while probably not so well known
on the market as these varieties, 1t
sells we'll, and in the judgment of the
writer is better potato in every way:
The Carmen IS white potato, oval
in shape and medium to late in matur-
Ing. It grows very heavy vine that
covers the ground between the rows,
acting somewhat as a mulch. The
large vine also tends to keep down the
weeds IN the row. There are two
varieties of Carmen, the No. 1 and
No. 3, but in appearance, yield and
Equality they are practically the same.
The Carmen No. 1 IS grown on the
Experiment Farm as the field crop.
There is greater difference in the
yield Of different varieties Of potatoes
than generally supposed. The variety
test on the Experiment Farm shows q
difference of from twenty-five to one
hundred bushels per acre. It pays to
get a known variety.
Potatoes, perhaps more than any
other crop, tends to vary, and unless
care is Used in tho selection of seed
every year the best variety will run
out. III
It is common practice to plant small
potatoes, believing that it the whole
potato is planted or only cut in two.
9 that as good results will be obtained
: as if larger seed were selected. Thll
q il positively fatal to the good qualities
= of any variety. Unless good size
; and good shape seed IS selected thu
!, variety in few years VIII be ikl
, the seed used. Small potatoes will
produce small potatoes. Like WI
|, produce like. Pick ont the kind 1o
seed you would like to get when 70,
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