. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. 3-40 THE AMERICAX FARMER. or horse-hoe to run in both directions, while experiments prove that the yield of both methods is about the same, the dtills, perhaps, giving slightly the larger crop. If planted in drills and the land is sloping, the drills should be made to run in the direction of the slope, so as to admit of partial drainage, and prevent washing in hea\'y showers. If drill planting is decided upon, and the planting is to be done by hand, the rows should
. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. 3-40 THE AMERICAX FARMER. or horse-hoe to run in both directions, while experiments prove that the yield of both methods is about the same, the dtills, perhaps, giving slightly the larger crop. If planted in drills and the land is sloping, the drills should be made to run in the direction of the slope, so as to admit of partial drainage, and prevent washing in hea\'y showers. If drill planting is decided upon, and the planting is to be done by hand, the rows should be marked with a plow suited to the purpose, making small furrows about four inches deep, the furrows about three feet apart. If planted in hills, the furrows should be marked across the field at the same distance, so that the marking will be in squares. When chemical fertilizers are used, tbej'should not come in direct contact with the seed, but should be mixed with four or five times their bulk of soil before being put in the hills or drills, or should be slightly covered with soil before dropping the seed. The seed should then be dropped, two or three pieces to the hill, or if in drills, a single piece every ten or twelve inches, after which the covering can be done by a plow or hand hoe. Planting is done to a considerable extent in many localities by a potato planter. These machines mark the rows, cut the potatoes for dropping, drop and cover the seed at one operation. The following cut represents one of these implements, —manufactured by Nash & Brother, New York City. The hopper will hold about a bushel of potatoes, and the knife is so arranged that it will be almost impossible to cut pieces without one or more eyes in them. As. rule, the planting should be done early in the sea- son. Farmers frequently delay this imtil so late that the crop does not have suf- ficient time to mature. It was formerly the custom to plant potatoes after the com planting was com- pleted
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