. Farming with alfalfa bacteria culture. potatoes on land that cost $ per acre. localities where the summer season is long enough for acrop to mature before frost. Irish potatoes can be profit-ably grown in nearly all sections of the United States,including the extreme south, and they do not draw asheavily on the soil as most crops having an equal valuein market or for stock food. To grow a perfect crop of Irish potatoes theremust be plenty of nitrogen and humus in the soil to givethe vines a good start as it is impossible to grow a good FARMING 75 crop of potatoes with small vines and th
. Farming with alfalfa bacteria culture. potatoes on land that cost $ per acre. localities where the summer season is long enough for acrop to mature before frost. Irish potatoes can be profit-ably grown in nearly all sections of the United States,including the extreme south, and they do not draw asheavily on the soil as most crops having an equal valuein market or for stock food. To grow a perfect crop of Irish potatoes theremust be plenty of nitrogen and humus in the soil to givethe vines a good start as it is impossible to grow a good FARMING 75 crop of potatoes with small vines and the other fertiliz-ing elements necessary for growing the tubers will notmake thrifty vines without the nitrogen. Even whereland is deficient in potash and the other elementsnecessary for the tubers, strong, thrifty vines will goa long way towards gathering the limited quantity ofthe elements necessary to grow potatoes. Our farm landin this vicinity, especially on the hills, has all thenecessary elements in very large quantities for grow-. A few of the crates in the corner of a held where the hind hadbeen improved by plowing under alfalfa. ing a perfect potato crop with the exception of humusand nitrogen. When these elements are supplied bysweet clover and alfalfa the conditions are made idealfor potatoes and by proper spraying and cultivation it isnot difficult to get from two to three hundred bushels tothe acre without the use of commercial fertilizer. Potatoes make excellent stock food, either cookedor raw, and can be kept in perfect condition for feedingfor several months. When there are more small pota- 76 FARMING toes than can be fed while they are in good conditionand at times when the market price is below thirty centsper bushel, the potatoes can be sliced, dried and kept in-definitely making the best food for horses, cattle orswine. They can also be ground into meal. Whole pota-toes at thirty cents per bushel have a feeding valuewhen dried about equal to oats at fifty ce
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