. Gleanings in bee culture. As she held it upshe said, Why, what a funny book this mustbe! Her sister then put in, Why, Alice, whatis the book about? Read us the title. Why, it reads, Farmers with Green Man-ners. At first nobody caught on, and I was sayingto myself, What in the world does the childmean— Farmers with Green Manners ? But somehow the title sounded a little fa-miliar. Then friend Hilbert began to after another they caught on. It was theO. Judd excellent work entitled Farm-ing with Green Manures. And, by the way,friend Hilbert has been reading the book overand over,
. Gleanings in bee culture. As she held it upshe said, Why, what a funny book this mustbe! Her sister then put in, Why, Alice, whatis the book about? Read us the title. Why, it reads, Farmers with Green Man-ners. At first nobody caught on, and I was sayingto myself, What in the world does the childmean— Farmers with Green Manners ? But somehow the title sounded a little fa-miliar. Then friend Hilbert began to after another they caught on. It was theO. Judd excellent work entitled Farm-ing with Green Manures. And, by the way,friend Hilbert has been reading the book overand over, and building some tremendous air-castles on this subject. He says that nextyear, instead of taking four or five acres togrow a thousand bushels of potatoes, he is go-ing to follow the teachings of that book andget a thousand bushels from one acre. I thinkI will have to tell the O. Judd Co. of this jokein regard to the title of their book. May beit will furnish somebody a subject on whichto write a new book on THE GRAND TRAVERSE HAND POTATO page 817, Oct. 15, I described the handpotato-planter used in the great potato localityround about the Grand Traverse region. Letme repeat, there are quite a number of handpotato-planters, somewhat similar to this, onthe market, or that have been peddled around,especially the one with a tin tube to drop thepotatoes in at the top. Now, this tube ar-rangement is not what is wanted at all. Iwas induced to buy one of an agent, and sowas friend Hilbert ; but they are not worthany thing at all. To push the implementdown, even into mellow ground, you wantyour foot right on it as in the figure. In thefirst place, you want your ground markedboth ways ; and I would use the chain arrange-ment as pictured and described on p. 975, You can plant your potatoes, with littleextra expense, so as to cultivate both ways ;but whether you decide to cultivate both waysor not, I would mark the ground both the way, at a rec
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