Vegetable and flower seeds catalogue : free for all . ill, we get a grand crop of nice large, smooth potatoes. BradleysPotato Fertilizer has given us great satisfaction. There are four ways of fighting the rot fungus: i. Keep out of wet land. 2. Plantred-skinned varieties if possible. 3. Plant early sorts that mature just before the advent of the dog days which are great breeders of In fighting the bugs always mix your Paris green in the Bordeaux mixture. Two eyes every fifteen inches are sufficient seed forvigorous sorts. Whole potatoes are safer to plant than pieces if the weather sho
Vegetable and flower seeds catalogue : free for all . ill, we get a grand crop of nice large, smooth potatoes. BradleysPotato Fertilizer has given us great satisfaction. There are four ways of fighting the rot fungus: i. Keep out of wet land. 2. Plantred-skinned varieties if possible. 3. Plant early sorts that mature just before the advent of the dog days which are great breeders of In fighting the bugs always mix your Paris green in the Bordeaux mixture. Two eyes every fifteen inches are sufficient seed forvigorous sorts. Whole potatoes are safer to plant than pieces if the weather should turn cold and rainy after planting or on the otherhand be exceptionally hot. By running the plow two or three times in each furrow before planting, the crop will be increased about 20bushels to the acre. A soaking for an hour in dissolved corrosive sublimate, we find will kill the scab, or a rolling of the cut seed in sulphurTvill prove nearly as effective. Potatoes keep better in a cool rather damp cellar. THE DELAWARE Valuable It is seldom we find such a combination of size, yield and qualityin any potato. A professor in one of our agricultural collegesrecently told us that he dug a carpet-bag full from a single hill, anda day or two after a farmer stopped me to say tliat it was the, finesteating potato that he knew of. The average form is shown in theengraving. It is medium early; in size it is large, beings; above theaverage ; the skin and flesh are white ; in yield it is a remarkablecropper, while in quality it is first-rate, being dry and mealy. It isone of the few varieties that do well on all kinds of soil. Everyfarmer who has tested the Delaware has become enthusiastic in itspraise. F. A. Gray, Philbrook, Montana, writes: From the 3 pounds ofDelaware potatoes, from you last year, I grew 221 pounds, some weigh-ing IJ pounds.! H. M. Turner, Wentworth, writes: From the 1 pound ofyour Delaware potatoes, from yon, I grew 90 pounds of fine tubers.
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