Show al POTATO arilla if alio llio acl iv ifal t of line cilino XI lino pl antill it is genKa gl nc aljy liy that the uso of a potato planter from r i ean of vf W is iff as a lii la or raver often I 1 w iid the dille renco between fi chees wid failure but tho thop tory is id told of it caruer who ased a potent potato planter cr for some rome time and after making la alrin comparative tests testa decided to abandon ou its further use and plant his eight oi or ten acres of at potatoes by hand band ho claimed to obtain on a rauch much greater reater rc ater yield by eo cc doing hta his method is aiato iato to I 1 fairo bobb ways uw kiflin kho ibo planet jr with maric lug uld and 3 inch plats plate tor for making till tho nariz nn riis z 0 1 I L a ringwell well on in the handles to obtain greater depth of furrow with a largo lareo proportion of loose earth directly beneath the tha row the rows arc 30 i ichim apart each vay tie ile pre ewo rs laggo rubt rr cut to tot two or three eyes to tho the piece with will fertilizer dis broadcast broA cast before planting ile he claims to have been ablo able to latter better than when the planter was used riis nis objection to the latter was that tho the lleces kiei oa had to bo be cut tco small sm 11 II to auit him and for some d reason tho the results so go far as bichl is ia concerned havo have not been becu sa as satisfactory as those received by tho the other ri cirii I 1 1 I od ed following Follo rollo wini whir ii it a reply to tho auw going which w aa submitted to anial now yorker for consideration then is ia tho the shine shiao economy in the TIEL ripe of 0 a planter that is oi viz tin an abi ability 1 ay iy to work fa faster ter nu i save reain al labor there is no t ault that a 11 stout jt mah with v ith a d or to toik k cn can do ilo better vork v 0 oi k in preparing the soil for a crop than any aau an lie ho will do 10 botter ll ter work as far ss as he be guen goen t while lie ho is ia digging boils roils rots tho the pl owiTa will v i 11 cover acres lit in lill all abric agric htiu i implements tho the high eai standi rd 1 I thorough is r eat by tha hand too tool when used with skill and ut A chino moved by bor er canna see or thinh but it does so much mur mor work than the hand tool that in lii ig areas it is ia more economical in III tl tj case of tho potato planter the economy comes in thu faut that a man can plant eight acres or more in one day with toe machine abilo to do it by hard would mean a large larga force of hands bands or several days of hard woth the question 1 i will the tha saving in manual labor at planting n equal the tha increased value ol of the crop due adno to hand band planting P ebere are limes when two or three days raved in planting a large field of potatoes would lo be worth Lund hundreds reds of dollars as a later rain would so BO delay hand band planting ing that it could not ho be finished in time that it is bis to do more thorough work by hand band than by Inac ci achino bino no one can deny eny tao talo an aero acro of corn cora for example if it ii could le worked a lice hoe entirely never letting a cultivator into it wo havo have no doubt a better yield coull ba obtained than by the use nee of any corso tool artt would not tho smaller crop brov bhoj the thoi cors profit after estimating tho the cost oi of baud fraad labor ial cr 1 the sar bamo nowah eiith potatoes most of tho the great yields en record havo have beu been b eu pio deuced by 1 y a jalaa very much liko that viz wide deep furrows laige med eced and fertilizer ti N ato to do not know that these largo yields have been efio most profitable ones onea in ia fact wo think tho the most meet ironey is ia mado in potato growing crowing by those V who ho cultivate many acres and vise vae machinery for planting digging 1111 working voi king ThO Asrin wall planter lias has no brains neither has baa it eyes nor muscles it has tho the best mechanical imitation of tho the finger and thumb joint abat tb at has lf uen en madu made out oat of metal it cannot possibly work as accurately as it a good human hand but it does tho work of four or ire five ordinary hands bands without resting As to whether bether N tho more expensive hand work of furrowing and dropping is more economical can only lie be determined by experiment ono fanner told US ca this season frason that after trying I 1 two or nr three different bigge diggers rs lio lie camo came back to t 0 hand diggins digging ns as tho the least expensive |