Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-04-09

| Plenty Of Murphys if
you Feed the Ground
While South Dakota is not. especial
| " noted for the quantity of potatoes
which it places on the market, it is
becoming more noted with each pass
| ing year for its potato output, partic-
lularly with regard to the quality.
One of Cololado's most noted pota-
to growers, recently paying a visit to
the Grand Valley in the western part
OF the state, was prevailed upon by
a newspaper reporter to make a few
passing remarks concerning the pota-
to as a crop, which may be of interest
to South Dakota farmers
Feed the Soil.
Feed the soil, was his principal
advice for any sort of crop, your
isooli4 10 ilhS a De1Ah dCSoulll, coullIuSu
the potato expert. Mr.. Lou d. Sweet,
Iof Carbonate who has become one
OF the Rocky mountain states chief
authorities on potato raising, You
can't draw checks unless you have de
posits.'
One trouble with Americans said
Mr.. Sweet, ..is that most Of the farms
!. do more than the farmers. There is
nothing new in agriculture z
Mr.. Sweet called attention to Cato's
observation ante-dating the Christian
era by nearly one hundred years.
Cato said that deep and thorough till
ing of the soil is necessary; also, add
ed nutrition; likewise good seed. The
three must go together to get best
results.
! Some Big Yields.
Mr.. Sweet referred to the discovery
1 of the potato in South America by
the spaniards in the sixteenth cen.
| tury, and he said that more than one
hundred years ago a progressive
farmer in Essex, England, where the
potato had been introduced by the
Virginia colonists, had succeeded In
raising 10000 pounds to the acre
while this countryss average is in the
lneighborhood of 5000 pounds, or only
about so bushels to the acre
The Colorado man claims to have
raised $4,000 pounds per acre, which
/ would be equivalent to about 6o(
i bushels. He says that it is possible
with proper fertilization and proper
handling during the growing season
4 to produce $4,000 pounds, or 80t
4 bushels, per acre.
Plant Them Whole.
AT the court house meeting say.
4 the Grand Junction News, speaking q
Mr.. Sweets presence, the gentleman
described the planting method ant
i Experiments which have brought fortl
the famously high grade potato rails
ed on his place at Carbonate. The.
4 plant potatoes whole, and they arr
picked potatoes at that. Department
4 of Agriculture bulletins state that thu
Sweet brothers ranch at Carbondalt
4 was the first to plant potatoes whole
but this, Mr.. Sweet says, is not thu
4 case, as there is nothing new in az
4 riculture."
1 They have found that when the,
\ plant whole potatoes from hills where
about half the potatoes are regularl,
shaped the resultant hills are likel,
to have half or more potatoes vel
/ shaped and the rest like the uneveI
potatoes in the hill from which the
seed was taken. But II they plant po
tatoes from hills in which all the po
tatoes are trIe to type, the result
will be hills of fine even potatoes OI
/ the Sweet ranch as many as 73 pei
4 cent Of the hills have been found ii
which every potato was perfect.
THE LITTLE HEAT PUSH.
The Scientific American gives the
following novel view Of combustion.
What happens when YOU touch /
match to the kindling In your kitchen
fstove? The simple and obvious ans
! wer seems to bet burns This il
/ true enough SO far as it goes, but the
answer does not even suggest the CON
plicated and far-reaehing results tha,
are accounted for the very simple