. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. 42 POTATOES IN COOS COUNTY " In this section the potato is generally planted on sod land that was broken during the fall or summer of the previous season and given a liberal dressing of stable manure. By some the manure is turned under, and by others it is applied on the furrows and harrowed in. Both methods have stanch advocates. " Hill culture is used altogether. The rows are placed from two and one- half to three feet apart, with the hills from twelve to twenty inches apart in the row. From ten to twenty bushels of seed are used per acre,—
. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. 42 POTATOES IN COOS COUNTY " In this section the potato is generally planted on sod land that was broken during the fall or summer of the previous season and given a liberal dressing of stable manure. By some the manure is turned under, and by others it is applied on the furrows and harrowed in. Both methods have stanch advocates. " Hill culture is used altogether. The rows are placed from two and one- half to three feet apart, with the hills from twelve to twenty inches apart in the row. From ten to twenty bushels of seed are used per acre,—fifteen or eighteen bushels being the quantity used by most growers. Most of the farmers use commercial fertilizers, at the rate of from three to four hundred pounds per acre in the hill. This is thought to be profitable, as it gives the plants a good start. Both the seed and the phosphate are dropped by hand, and then covered with a two-horse hoe, with the wings adjusted for that purpose. "Soon after the plants appear above ground they are hoed, the earth being thrown up around them with the horse hoe, which is followed by the hand hoe, to uncover any that chance to be covered and to cut or pull out stray weeds. About two weeks later the second and last hoeing is given. This time the drills are made as large as possible with the horse hoe. At this hoeing but little hand-work is done unless the piece is very tough or weedy. "After this nothing is usually done, except to ap- ply Paris green once or twice in case the beetles threaten to injure the vines. A very few farmers use Bordeaux mixture for the blight. Some of the more painstaking pull or cut out any weeds that may appear among the vines in August, before their seeds ripen. "The crop is dug by hand, the tined digger being the favorite implement. The average yield is about two hundred and fifty bushels per acre in good seasons. In extra good seasons entire fields sometimes yield as high as four hundred bush
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