Year: 1875

Whitewater, Wis, was read before the American farmers club: I herewith transmit to you the result of my labor and experiments in raising potatoes. The soil in which I planted was sandy O am, upon which no manure had been put fer two years. The last crop before thls was potatoes. The variety which I planted was the Peerless. The rows and hills were three and a half feet apart each way. There were twenty-three hills in each row and six rows, each of which was treated differently, as will ap- pear hereafter. There were three pieces of potatoes, with three eyes on each, put in hill, and the land was shaded by trees, etc., after four P. M. l cultivated them thoroughly twice and hood them once. Planted April A and dug Sep- tember 4. At the time of digging the tops were still green, though touched with frost. In row No. I put in each hill and worked into the soil thoroughly good double handful of unleached ashes before dropping the potatoes the yield was 122 pounds. Row No. IA large tablespoonful of salt was thorough ly mixed with the soil before dropping yield, eighty nine pounds. Row No. 3.

 

 tablespoonful of salt were mixed thor oughly with the soil before dropping ; yield ninety-two pounds. Row No. A. A single handful of plaster was put in each hill yield, ninety-two pounds. Row No. 5.-A tablespoonful of sulphur and single handful of plaster were mixed and worked into the soil before dropping yield ninety-four pounds. Qrxrz Mo e A .1o f,,1 <E and same of plaster were mixed with soil before dropping; yield ninety-four pounds. The most handsome and smooth potatoes were found in rows where sulphur was put. The best in size were found in rows No. 1 and No. 6. The Colorado beetle we have very little trouble with, using as preventative to its rayages heaping teaspoonful of paris green of good quality in twelve quarts of water. One thorough sprink- ling of the vines with this preparation after sundown will be sufficient for the entire season, unless it should rain with in twenty-four hours, in which case a repetition will be necessary. For this section for quality for summer and win ter use Thorburn's Late Rose potato is the potato par excellence, and yields about three times the amount that the Early Rose does. A friend of mine has a peculiar faculty of raising large yields of Peach Blows on oak openings with clay soil. He raises 600 bushels per acre. The soil is manured with green manure, and plowed in fall in spring plowed lightly, and thoroughly dragged and planted, as early as the soil can be worked. For evenness of size they beat all ever saw, except where sorting ' was resorted to.

 aH -z,l Useful Hints.

 The best fattening material for chick. ems IS said to be Indian meal and milk.

 Biborate of soda dissolved in water, used as lotion, will remove prickly

 The best and most durable insulation for electric wires is to tin them and cover with pure rubber. .a

 To preserve soap grease, fill cask half full of good strong lye and drop all refuse grease therein. Stir up the mixture once week.

 Yellow stains commonly called iror mold, are removed from linen by hydro

 

 acid. Wash well in warm water after ward.

 To fasten emery to leather, boil glue very thin, add little milk, raise the pile of the leather and put on the glue with brush. Then sprinkle on the emery, and let it cool.

 A remedy for caterpillars, which if used on large scale in France, consists in solution Gone part in 500) of sulphide of potassium, sprinkled on the tree bJ means of a hand syringe.

 Javelle water, used for turning white the dirtiest linen, and removing stains is composed of bicarbonate of soda fou1 pounds, chloride of lime one pound. Pu the soda into kettle over the fire, ado one gallon of boiling water, let it boi from. ten to fifteen minutes. then stir il the chloride of lime; avoiding Jumps Use when cool. This is good for remov ing fruit stains from white underwear.

 How to Can Corn.

 Mrs. Emma Moody, lady assistan steward of Mount Vernon Ind.) grange communicates to the Hoosier Potro, the following plan for canning corn.

 l. Get the best sweet corn, scald i on the ear, and cut 1t off while hot pu 8 pan over kettle of boiling water t. keep 1t hot until you get enough to fl can. Have some weak brine boilin. in porcelain kettle. Fill your cal within an inch of the top with corn cover the bottom with brine, leaving room for 1t to swell seal the can whil boiling hot.

 2. Dissolve one and one-fourth ounce of tartaric acid in one-half pint of water cut the corn from the cob put it in vessel over the fire and bring to boilin, point to each pint of corr allow on tablespoonful of the solution. Boil one half hour, stirring occasionally the put the corn in quart cans and seal tight ly. When wanted for use, put the cor into bowl and stir in two-thirds of teaspoonful of soda to each quart c corn. B Let 1t stand one hour befor cooking. .....

 g.. Gut the corn off the cob and pac closely in quart cans; then solder s that every particle of air is excluded set the cans in kettle of cold wate and bring to boil :; let the corn boil tw and a half hours in this sized can Qargef cans will require more time when done, pour cold water into tn kettle to cool the cans and enable you t remove them carefully.

 .iiTJC Putting up Pickles.

 The following is good recipe fo plain pickles. Small cucumbers, bu not too young, are wiped clean with dry cloth, put into 8 Jar, and boilin cider vinegar, with handful of salt poured on them. Boil up the vinega every three days. and pour it on thel til they become green; then add ginge and pepper and tie them up close fo use. Or cover them with salt and wate Gas above) in stone jar, cover this an set them on the hearth before the fl