Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 29, 1899, Page 3

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SomeUp-to-Date Hints About Cul- tivation of the Soll and Yields Thereof—Horticulture, Viticulture and Floriculture. What Variety of Potatoes. Some time ago a farmer sold the writer ten bushels of potatoes which were contracted for before the pota- toes were dug. *They proved to be very small, but yet not so small that they could be refused. On investiga- tion it was found that they were of a variety that is pretty well run out. The farmer said that all of his neigh- bors that were growing this variety complained that for several years they had not been able to get more than half crops. Now, while we do not believe that potatoes run out of necessity, yet most of them are so carelessly handled that they do run out after a time. It would therefore seem that every man should watch his variety and see that it is not growing less productive. For instance, if one variety will produce 200 bushels to the acre and another only 100 bushels, it is evident that the grower could much better afford to Pay a good price for new seed than to grow the old seed even if he got it for nothing. The Michigan agricul- tural college tries a great Many va- rieties and finds it advisable to dis- card hundreds of them, after testing them for a number of years. Their Tule is to discard all potatoes that will not yield 100 bushels to the acre un- der fair conditions. Some of these potatoes discarded are presumably not old varieties, but new ones that do not do well on that particular soil. Some of them might be entirely suitable to other soils and conditions, Readers of the Farmers’ Review will remember the controversy that took place a few years ago in these columns over the Freeman po- tato. Some farmers reported magnifi- cent yields with it and others report- ed that it was with them a complete failure. The facts were that in some localities the soil and conditions fav- ored it while in others the soil and conditions were against it. There is no general purpose potato any more than there is a general purpose cow or hen or horse. There are some va- rieties that are adapted to light sandy soils and others that do well on a clay soil. The farmer that tries to grow a potato on the wrong soil must expect financial loss. Care in select- ing varieties pay It isa mistake to be carried away by a potato fad, as much as it is a mistake to be carried away by any other kind of a fad. What we call a potato fad is for a com- munity to get the idea that there is only one kind of potato they must grow and hang to it through thick and thin, even though their soil may be very diversely formed and construct- ed. Also a man that has newly drain- ed his farm may find that the potato he grew on undrained land may not prove the best on land so constructed that the moisture and air pass more readily through it. Every farm must to a certain extent be an experiment station. A farmer must try a num- ber of varieties before he can know which one will do the best for him. Improving Seed. The Journal sees no reason why seeds cannot be improved by careful selection and cultivation just as horses and cattle can be improved by judiciously selecting and mating the parent animals and properly caring for their offspring, says Texas Stock and Farm Journal. The Kansas Experi- ment Station is continuing an experi- ment on the station farm for the im- provement of corn and have shown that the yield can be very much in- creased by breeding and selecting the seed. The men engaged in the test hope, also, to improve the feeding value of corn by making it more nitro- genous. They find that some grains have more than the average percent- age of protein, and hope by the selec- tion of these to produce a grain that will have more than the average flesh producing quality. Of course the or- dinary farmer has not the trained skill nor the equipment to successfully or scientifically conduct experiments on such lines, but it seems to have passed beyond question that yield and qual- ity ean be increased very much simply by planting the very best seed and giving the seed crop just the kind and amount of cultivation that is re- quired. Such methods might profit- ably be applied to other than corn crops. They would give the same ad- vantage in the garden as in the field. As to some plants climate might have such effect as to cause degeneracy in spite of the best efforts, making it ad- visable to buy each year seed that have grown under all conditions favor- able to them, but the Journal thinks there are few products of either field or garden of which this is true. Cause of Winter Killing. Some thirty years ago I wrote an article on “Orcharding in Wisconsin.” It was given as my opinion in that ar- ticle that the very extreme and long- continued cold of some of our winters was the principal cause of injury, and aow after the lapse of-more than a quarter of a century, carefully noting the effect of the extremes we have ‘passed, I am still of that opinion, says A. G. Tuttle in “Wisconsin Hor- ticulturist.” Every cold winter when we have had many days in succession of very extreme cold, and when on some of these days the mercury did not rise above twenty below zero at mid- day, I have always found injury soon to follow. In every case the extreme cold winters have been those most de- structive. If we place a foliage plant in the open air with the thermometer at zero, it is soon killed and we do not hesitate to say it froze to death. The Baldwin, Greening or Spitzenberg apple kills in a dry atmosphere with about the same degree of cold that de- stroys the peach. That our trees freeze to death I have not the least doubt, but why one kills and another does not, is something I don’t understand and probably never shall. Prof, Budd ‘claims that trees freeze to death by the expansion of the sap cells caused by severe freezing. This is an old theory and one I could never accept. That portion of the tree con- taining the sap vessels is as easily frozen as a potato, and I can see no reason why the sap should not be as thoroughly frozen and expanded with the thermometer at zero as at thirty or forty below, and yet with the mer- cury at zero we suffer no injury. It is not necessary for us to be able to explain why one variety kills and an- other does not; the fact is all that is necessary for us to know until we are able to go back in creation to the great first cause and explain the phenomena of its existence. We shall find many mysteries in nature we cannot solve. Science can only reveal to us a few faint glimmerings of that effulgent light that shines beyond the reach of human vision. Only in another state of existence, if ever, shall we be able to comprehend the wonderful myster- ies that nature withholds from us here. Let us accept the facts as they pre- sent themselves rather than adopt a theory and spend all our energies to make facts conform to it. I made a thorough examination of my shrubs and vines the first day they were thaw- ed after the severe cold; the injury was as apparent then as it was a month afterwards. The ewidence was as con- clusive to me that they had frozen to death ag it would nave been had I found a person who nad perished in a, Dakota blizzard. I would as soon have entertained the idea that the per- son died of sunstroke or fever as that thawing killed the trees. Vines, shrubs and small fruits can be pro- tected, but our ochard fruits should be sufficiently hardy to withstand any amount of cold we may be liable te have, i} ! a A Stlo. A silo is a convenience which every dairy farmer should have, says the Canadian Commissioner of Agriculture and Dairying. It need not be an ex- pensive structure. It requires to be strong enough to hold corn fodder when cut into lengths of from one-half to one inch. It should be fairly close, so as to exclude the air after the en- silage has settled. The main features f ak = are strength to resist the outward - = Be 8 * pressure of its contents, exclusion of U IC inion is air by the construction of the sides, and a fair depth of holding capacity, in order to permit the ensilage to set- tle into a compact mass. Sufficient never ar wron strength of sides can be obtained in most silos by the use of 2x10 inch or 2x12 inch studs, placed from 18 inches to 2 feet apart. A clay or earthen You can cheat it for a time, but only for floor is most economical, and as good as any that can be put in. The inside a time. The average life of a patent =e of the walls of the silo may be fin- ished ty a single Iining of 1umber,| 1 medicine is less than two years. They nailed to the studs horizontally. The lumber should be tongued and grooved, are pretty well advertised, some of them, and dressed on the inside. If each al- ternate board be allowed to extend at| but it isn’t what is said of them, but the corners, so as to make a lock- joint, that will give additional strength what they are able to do which carries = to the structure. The corners of the Is the best any too good for you? silo on the inside should be filled by the use of a board or plank 10 inches them through the years. wide, set on end. The triangular space behind it should be filled with sand or inch or 2x12 inch, with one ply of 9 sound tongued and grooved lumber, -_ nailed horizontally on the inside, are i! sufficient for an efficient preservation of the ensilage. Additions to that] § method of construction may be ad-| § it vantageous in a few cases for conven- ience. To build one with the least e outlay of cash, the farmer who has some standing timber may get out arsa a i ] 6 | | _ be put in a mow in the barn, and lined on the inside with one thickness 2f 2 lumber, tongued and grooved, and : . nailed on horizontally. This big bin, (which made Sarseparilla famous) or silo, should be constructed with the corners interlocked by every second » . as never recommended itself to do what it = ed on the corner post. That effectual- q h a . . ly prevents the spreading of the silo! | knew of itself it could not do. It has never at the corners. If a portion of the en- . silage around the sides becomes frozen, been known as a cure-all in order to catch that is more an inconvenience than a . loss. It should be mixed with the all. For half a century it has been the . . slo, before it Is ofered or sed to the} fF one true, safe blood purifier, made in the ce . Chill Room,—In building any room o@ 5 . . Thousands of families are using it where perature, there are certainly indis- ] . ° pensable requirements, The room| f their fathers and grandfathers used it must be made air-tight, and the floor, . . walls and ceiling insulated so that out- before, and its record is equaled by no side temperature will affect that within myer as little as possible. In planning for other medicine. a chill-room, every one must consider q his requirements as to size of room, location, and adapt his plant to these environments. It will be apparent that, when the temperature has been re- duced to a minimum, the room should be opened only when absolutely neces- sary, and that fruit to be put in should taken directly from the field in a clear, hot day, and placed in the chill-room. It is better to leave it over night in a room that can be opened and cooled by the night air, and take it from there to the chill-room early the next morn- sawdust. I consider that studs 2x10 timbers hewn on one side. These may board passing through and being nail- warm ensilage, from the middle of the . . best way out of the best ingredients. for maintaining a uniformly low tem- kind of fruit to be held, his available be partially cooled outside and not ing.—Ex. CURE YOURSELF? 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