| Show experience in potatoes s mr G P serviss of montgomery county countr N Y in a communication to the country gentleman and cultivator says some three or four years ago I 1 planted about a quarter of an acre of potatoes with a view to try experiments they grew finely and when the potatoes were about half grown and before I 1 could discover any appearance of the disease I 1 cut off the tops of two rows close to the ground about two weeks later I 1 saw that the tops of those that had not been cut b began to show signs of dying I 1 then cut off the t tops 0 eran egan of a number of rows leaving the remainder to take the course of nature the result at d aging time in the fall was the two first lows rows spoken of above had not a rotten potato in in them the rows that had their tops cut 0 off ff some two weeks later were nearly all rotten and so were those left to take the course of nature but this is not all ail this last spring I 1 planted about an acre with june potatoes as early as asche ehe the ground would admit they grew finely and I 1 anticipated a good crop they were nearly ripe when the news came from different parts of the town that potatoes were bottin rotting very much so feeling a little suspicious s about mine I 1 took a hoe lioe and went through the potatoes potatoes to examine them I 1 du dug about a dozen gills hills one here and another bere there and so on through the whole and finding them all sound covered them up again where idue them but not many days after I 1 found my potatoes were rotting as bad as my neighbors I 1 then let them take natures course till late in the fall when the digging dig ing edg found them two thirds rotten except those those doxen or fifteen hills that were were detached from the vines at the first ex which were all sound bound with a very few exceptions now this fact is conclusive that had I 1 dug my potatoes or even detached them from the vines I 1 at the time I 1 made the first examination I 1 should have saved the most of them there are various opinions as to the cause of the potato rot but let it be produced by what it may inay by the atmosphere or by an insect as is thought by some or from some ther cause certain it is that the tops are first attacked and then the potatoes and there is but little doubt in my mind as to its being good policy to detach the potato from the vine as soon eoon as the first symptoms of the disease appears let them be in what state of berf perfection ec they may be now my opinion is that it if farmers would get the earliest varieties of potatoes and make a practice of planting them not in the moon in the ground as early in the season seasor as possible chereb thereby ant giving them time to mature or nearly so and then detach them from the vines aa as soon lorjust or just before bein being attacked by a disease called the potato rot w which lich seldom makes its appeared appearance app earence nce in much before aug there would be thousands of bushels of potatoes saved which under the present general system of arrangement are lost bedding for cattle cattie all stock that is fastened in stalls should have bedding of some kind A bed of loam or sand is better than timber of any kind but when cellars are made under the stalls plank floors are wanted and these should be covered with something a more compact than straw sawdust is a good article for bedding and when it is nigh by it is more convenient than loam as it is lighter and may be procured when loam is frozen sawdust alone is not valuable aa as manure but as a retainer of the excrements of cattle it is a good article for vegetable growth the feet of horses must not rest on dry planks the forefeet in particular should be kept moist that the hoofs may hold the nails better belter when a farmer keeps but one horse a antl anil nd has room enough he may have a stall ten feet square with no floor but the natural soil then throw on any kind of straw or litter enough to keep his horse clean and the them stable need not be daily or weekly cleaned out but a good lot of such manure may be found under the horse it will not heat in case he stands 01 on it since no air can come to it ploughman new mode of grafling grafting Grai Gra sting fLing ing the french aie ale arfe aree practising practicing a deiv new method of grafting a knowledge of which may prove valuable to american horticulturist inasmuch as it can be performed at any season of the year when sound bound matured buds can be had whether the sap is in a flowing state or not itis ed by removing a small pi piece ece eve of barkand barkard wood leavin leaving leasing a smooth an and a flat surface to which a milar similar s I 1 pi piece e ce containing the budy bud which is to form the future tree is fitted which is sealed over immediately with this forms a strong impervious cuticle which secures a free circulation of sap on the approach of warm weather and a perfect union of the parts hints on shingling mr sir emerson of hollis mass says that shingles soaked in a thin whitewash made with brine water will last much longer than when nothing ia is used no matter how wide the shingle is he would not place the nails more than two inches apart it if nailed near the edge and the shingle is green shrinking causes it to split it if the shingle ingle ia is dry and becomes wet and ewels swei e the nail if on the edge is crowed out olit of its it nace ace ile he does not drive the nair nail quite in inbur but leaves eaves sufficient to keep the shingle that covers it sufficiently elevated to allow of the ciraula irada of c air atra and rapid bryin drying |
