Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1870 — Planting Potatoes. [ARTICLE]

Planting Potatoes.

As to what kind any man shall plant, we have little to say. Each grower thinks his the best—upon the same principle, no doubt, that each crow thinks its own young the blackest J The best soil for the potato is a warm, dry, and rather heavy foam; and if it contains vegetable matter, so much the better. New lands, or those on to which muck has been drawn, generally yield as well as the best . .. If the soil is a heavy clay, it should be drained, or at least plowed deep, and the more complete the pulverization, the bette Vhe best manure, take it all >in all, for potatoes or any. other crop.isthatmade in a common barn cellar—manure that is never wet, and ih which the procew fermentation is never allowed to reach a point Where the material isburnt, as farmers say, but slowly decomposed. Thirty large loads to the acre, twenty of them plowed in, the other ten spread on the surface, and thoroughlyworked in with the harrow, are none too little. Forty would be better than , We always plant, and would advise others to do so, potatoes about the size of hens’ eggs-if they are a little smaller, it is Just “well. Thwe are separated from the larger ones (and smaller) m the tall and put into barrels, so that the eyes are all good, and the tubers always sound. These we cut into two pieces uwttn sometimes four, and after making furrows three feet apart-three and one half on light noils would be better —wo drop them, two pieces in a bill, and two or two and a half feet apart in the row. The farrow should never be over three inches deep if the soil is fairly moist, and when cowed to a level with the ground, the work is over the land afterward to not the surface, the better.— Cor. Hearth and Home. Airrrti boy was relating aMoryhe had heard one day. Hls. ld «** confused in some way, he could find no words to explain bls meaning; at last he aaid: “Well, I.know en°ugE Hgwords, but I don’t know where to put them tn.