Yhe practicA Farmer.

From the New-England Farmer.


POTATOES.
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.dsa Perley's account Of raising POTATOES
from the seed contained in The green 0an.
In the autumn of 1922 collected four or
five clusters of green balls from the potatoe
vines, and in the spring of 1928, on the i9tn
of April, sowed the seeds which ooealsea
from them the bed in which sowcd them
was prepared in a manner similar to the one
which is usually prepared tor sowing car
rot or beet seed. The bed was eight teet IN
length. and two in width, and produced nine
different kinds of potatoes, which measured
one pint They were very small, some OF
the kinds were ripe early, others continued
to grow until nipped by the FROST


= In 1924, April 9th, planted the potatoes
raised from the green balls in a bed richly
manured, the bed was twelve feet in length
and three in width. planted them in rows
crosswise of the bed, and one foot apart, and
was careful to plant each kind by them
selves when they were about two inches
high we'd them, and was particularly care
ful to keep them free of weeds through the
season, and occasionally watered them
After the vines were dead, dug the pata-
toes; some were of middling size, others
were small, some kinds yielding quantity
threefold greater than others the whole
measured one peck and a half.


April 9th, 1925, planted one peck of the
largest which took from the several kinds,
in seventy-seven hills, three feet apart in
one direction and two and half in the other
The soil was loamy, the manure was spread
on the ground and ploughed in. The pota-
toes when they had attained suitable height
were wed and every attention paid necessary
to bring them to maturity


Sept. 80, 1926, ,.ug and measured the
potatoes there was one and half bushel,
and three quarts ! boiled few of each
kind, some of them were remarkably good
favored others appeared watery. ! think
that as many as four or Ave kinds are
worthy the attention of the farmer, not
merely on account of their productive quail
ity, but for being mealy and of good flavor,
among which are the small mealy ones ripe
in June. the largest Kind ripe in August
and those which are in a growing state
when pulled, and the kind which resemble.
the blue noses ripe in JULY.