The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-01-12

p'ant'ng, c1'tivatio3, etc. etc, have
rtFE ez3ta-'s-f.-I :. "a roT Nv
10 selbie 10 ut Of view, yet notwiih-
standing all this, even in the nogth
W nt reiati' ely " Few tnat have
profited ty the results OF all b ese
years OF planting; so even on adjoc.-
ing farms. soil and climatic condi-
lions being the same. we End one
farmer getting 500 bushels to the
acre, and the one who don't know
how getting go bushels downward
Like Ell things e'se, potato raising do
ponds on knowledge and the practical
application of it.
Now for few things bearing on
the vegetable itself WITH esnecial ref
erence to southern Nconditions-the
south is ideal for potato growing and
the market which can be reached, far
ahead of what the northerner has 10
contend with. To get yield of good
sized and even tubers, with practical
ly no small ones in the hill, is de-
pendent upon the seed potato used
and the manner of cutting it for plant
ing, and the distance between mills
and rows. In no case SHOULD a small
potato be planted nor a whole one,
every Potato should be cut, and sesfy
advice to tie contrary is based uson
a radical misunderstanding of the
laws of growth which govern this
vegetable. In cutting the vegetable
for planting lies much of the skill
TO bring about desired results, soil
conditions necessarily being correct.
| have seen many directions given
in farm journals and truck raising
text books upon L is cutting process,
which were so much ct yarience with
real facts that trey would be laugh
able We're it not that so many farm
ers have been led astray by such di-
REGIONS. Now the eye of a potato is
nothing more e IN tud and the veg
e'able itself nothing but a reversed
instead of above. and as on a stem
or trunk there are certain offshoots
which are of no productive value, 50
in the eyes Of a potato there are those
which are useless, only half produc-
tive or fully so.
Though it is often said the north
is better than the south as a local
ity for the best results, this too, is
wrong and the province of the north
today is, from the broadcast point Of
view, more to furnish the south with
the proper seed potato, the results Of
200 years in the hard school of ex-
perience.
AS to seed potatoes, there are a
wide range of varieties, each with its
merits or otherwise: hut With the
ideal seed taken, properly planted, at
tended to through the growing time
is they should be, and allowed to le
main in the ground until fully ripe
before harvested, there is no reason
why the average yield for the first
snring crop si}ould be not less than
400 bushels per acre, and the sell
| sor crop very nearly the same.
Such questions as fertilizing soils,
etc. | have not touched upon, but the
point have tried to bring out is this
that given the proper seed tusers,
which, as noted above is n matter
of actual knowledge and experience.
and with the proper instructions as
TO planting and caring for the same,
the south can more than duplicate
the best results obtained in the north.
Personally. it would be a pleasure
for me. and no cost to them, to give
such as are interested some sound
advice on tie selection of their pota
toes, and methods of growing, that
would not fail to insure them a crop
that might surprise them
DIR. d. p. ORDWAY.
Portland Me.