Show 4 WI JR t 1 IRA lra A 1 10 1 EARLY POTATOES there is a large class of 0 persons who value good well weli ripened earl eari early po potatoes more than any other vegetable the potatoe is a universal favorite we have never met more than halt a dozen people who did not like it it la is easily raised cheap and has just about the proper proportions ot of buk bulk and nutritious proprieties to make it one of the most moat whole bome some articles ot of diet that comes upon the table tabie in cases of sickness where the patient is convalescent a roasted potatoe that is mealy and eaten as boon sorn as cooked is highly relished and is as harmless per perhaps hapsas as any food that can be taken As a common everyday every day fond foid of the table the potato stands next to bread when well cooked most children will take hait halt their entire food of the potatoe pot atoe ne especially it they can have a little milk or cream with the mash and will become vigorous and free from humors after a years use of them cooked in various forms every family in the country at least should have them plentifully by the girst first of 0 august and by taking some pains palm may bein begin to use them by the fourth of july the first thing to be considered is the soil it should be a comparatively dry and anby soil rather than a wet black blacy lom loam A fresh or new soil is greatly preferable one recently covered with grass or what hat bat is still better scrub 0 oaks a ks sweet fern blackberry and bucki buckl huckleba huc kleb elerry erry bushes such a soil when well plo ved and harrowed will be light and will abound with the alka iles liei and alkaline earths that the potatoe requires the situation selected should be an open but a warm one along the side of an old fence or wall where bushes have been for halt a century or less and exposed to the morning sun on such a soil and in such a situation the plants will start early and come to maturity rapidly and it the variety planted panted be a good on the tubers grown will have a sweet and agreeable flavor some of the v used for early planting are the jackson white white chenango Che which come quite early the early blue and others burr sa rays says y 9 the ash asb leaved kidney is one of the earliest of nf the garden potatoes ot of fine quality and one of the best for forcing early corps if it the ground was not prepared last fall it should be made ready aa as soon eoon as the frost ia Is out BO iso that it can be plowed six inches dep and the potatoes planted in order to rad fad irate th crop some persons set get a barrel of seed b by the he kitchen stove about the middle of march h w where here they remain until sprouts have started hait half an inch in length in this case the top of the potato po tatos a must be covered with loam or a cloth to beep out the light others lay a bushel or two of seed upon grass ground in some warm spot and cover them with horse manure sufficient deep to keep them warm they will sprout readily in this condition it they are ate kept moist and warm and can be got at to plant more easily than from a barrel others othera still who ondre ony require a few start them in hot beds planting should take place just as soon as the soil is dry enough to admit of working winking it plants plant if there is a dry surface sufficient to cover with even if the frost is a foot deep below before planting plan tine prepare liberal holes and fill them with a of horse f table tabie manure cover this with a of fresh damp mold and pace paca p ace the set or seed on tb thib this s and cover three inches deep mr air J knight says that if it the sets are i their leading buds upward a few and very strong early stems will wil I 1 be produced but if the position be reversed many weak and later shoots will arise an t n t only the earliness earli earlin neBi esq but the quality of the produce be depreciated by putting the above in practice every ener eneT parson person reon may expect a fine dish of nearly ripened r ap pota potatoes toes for his fourth of july dibner dinner with his roasted iamb lamb and green peas and an abundant supply after the 20 b h ot of the same month how can the farmer add to the com fa jit fat dit t and heal h of his bis family in a be ter way was N E farmer |