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Show "FARM NOTES. A potato ought not to be larger than en ostrich egg, or a nice-sized apple. Tomatoes may be a second crop if the plants are Bet in the rows where lettuce has grown. ' Sweet corn makes a good supplementary supple-mentary crop where strawberries are Bet in a garden. Earlv potatoes may be followed by late cabbages; snap beans will be out of the way for late cabbages also. There are about 10,000 hills on an acre of potatoes planted in rows feet apart and 14 inches apart in the row. A week or two before needed for planting cut large potatoes lengthwise and across, allowing two or three eyes to a piece. Ninety-five per cent, of the beekeepers bee-keepers in the United States keep the Italian bees, so you will not miss It if you, too, start with them. Cucumbers, squashes or other vine-producing vine-producing vegetables may be planted among the sweet corn, the stalks of which are cut as the corn Is used. The lowly peanut has received con- It two weeks, when although no rain fell, he could plow It with ease and prepare a nice, moist seed bed. The disking put a dust mulch on top and prevented the further evaporation ol the moisture that continues to rise to the surface, even in a dry time, though more slowly, until the ground wa moist and mellow. One of the strongest reasons In fa vor of fall plowing is that it givei greater control over the winter sup ply of water. The farmer would better bet-ter spend the time, iu spring, in harrowing har-rowing than plowing. Whether it be a wet or dry season, he has the advantage ad-vantage over the man who leaves his plowing until spring. siderable attention from the bureau of plant Industry, especially from a forage and oil-producing standpoint. . Select rich new timber land for potatoes po-tatoes If possible, next to tnis, sod. The ground should be well manured, plowed deep and packed with a heavy roller. Few field crops are more difficult to follow as to volume and price trend than clover seed. Maize, tobacco and potatoes are the three great products of the soil which America gave the world. On large farms where the owner has a traction engine it Is a simple matter to hitch a number of wagons together and have them hauled to market by the engine. Humus opens up and mellows heavy soils and serves to materially diminish dimin-ish the loss of fertilizing elements by drainage, thus permanently improving, improv-ing, in the best way, the light soils. |