Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 6, 1912, Page 12

THE AROOSTOOK ROTATION FOR POTATOES Specially Written for The Bulletin.) been above two hundred bushels. A few neighbors of mine Lappened |the average yield of the county hat to be talking potatoes, the other night. | ot e e Just for sake of comparison, not know. 1 edged over and put in an in- | P! re in Minnesota was ome hun erested half-hour listening dred bushels during the last s o | vears ninety-four bushels Startin; The first thing that struck me was !ihead of Maine the western state hat éach one had his own 7 of |average has fallen off, while Maine" raising the things, and that he was im- | has more tham doubled movably “sot” in his ideas, No one| What's the explanation? seemed willing to admit, for a moment Lk Just hoss-sense and n't mean to say the low's way was even in comparison with hat the other to be thought fel of {bow - grease. s lack of thos peatedly disc harrowed in the spring. The potatoes are planted in rows three feet apart and about fourteen inches apart in the row . Some 900 to 1,000 pounds to the acre of 8,6:8:7 common commerclal fertilizer are applied in the row at planting, Of the nitrogen in this formula one-third is secured from nitrate of soda, for guick use, and two- thirds from dried blood or tankage, for slower golution. The seed is ususally cut to four pieces . About six weeks after planting another 800 pounds of fertilizer is cultivated in. It requires about five barrels of seed to the acre. Within less than a week after plant- ing the field is harrowed with a spike- tooth harrow or weeder, going length- wise of the rows. This is repeated every few days till the potdtoes are big enough to cultivate. Then the narrow-toothed cultivator is put to work and kept at it till the tops cover the ground completely. This is done from four to six times ,according to season. The weeds are kept down and the surface kept muiched, no matter how many times it takes. Only at the last cultivation is a little dirt throwfl towards the rows, to help cover tubets which might stick their backs out in- to the sun. Ridging is not attempted nor desired. s d Spraying is done repeatedly, always | with Bordeaux to prevent blight and also with Paris green whenever the appear, One commen way of ing is to go over the field twice same day, once in the ordinary w and once with the spray mozsles set close to the ground and turned up, so as to hit the under side of the g s 1 e is own. As I haven't any way of my | ualities in Minnesota. But Maine wn,—Just do the best 1 can each time, | has surely used hers more. If a Con- | yose. After digging most farmers nd try to see where I've made Wis- | necticut farmer is really ansious to do | b’ €T BB 0 OPEEAL At ona takes 80 a8 to correct n next crop,~ | Lis best with potatoes, and i8 scout- | o il Dart sbove the ground and the second fhing that struck me was|ing around the universe after 8ug-| o el They are often cheaply oW many practical suggestions an gestions to try out, he naturaily Would | 4,41t affairs, but adequate for the pur- pen-minded outsider could pick up | prefer to look into the Maine methods | poico Sie e, it RECLIBER G F0 T et from hearing these pragmatic chaps |rather than the Minnesota. Connecti- |Bois the rower. » :\ldl hmw)‘{\—sd‘\ that way, halt l.-drw | cut, with its average yleld of a hun- [*1 LS d en ideas which I'm going to think over | dred bushels or so, is still ahead of P P erhaps t o his spring a " L 4 Now | come to the one element in the i g " | make the average Connecticut farmer i S sit up and take notice. As a cold matter of fact, 1 suspest And there's no state in the Uniof | ghoiao put the average cc hat each one of my neighboss was | With more hoss-sense (o the square . Coupon for the Bulletin's Corn-Growing Prize Competition for 1912 M. FOWD . o vivien o ORRERY o1 % e R Enters the compstition to grow an acre of corn according to the plans set forth in The Bulletin’s announcement on Jan, 1st, 1912, the prizes being $100 to first; $50 to second; $25 each to third and fourth; and $10 each to three others; and suject to all the rules and requirements of the contest. of potatoes, raiged this w cent less than §70. Perhaps you've had the idea, in some lower corner of your mind ,that all those Aroostook fellows had to do was to throw a few potatoes into the field and dig an immense crop six or eight TWO FARMER weeks later, You may have supposed, 1 own up that I once did—that the land was so naturally fitted for po- tatoes that it would rather grow them than not. There's another think coming to us, you see. I've seen a good many hundred acres of potatoes In Connecticut and other New England states which didn't pro- duce $70 worth of a crop. The farm- er who gets perhaps a hundred bushels to the acre and sells them at fifty cents can't see himself | spending $ e, next time, to grow more potatoes. But, fellows, that's just what might be the very dhesion | foot than Connecticut. more or less justified in his I'm not so sure wisest thing on earth These for him to do. Aroostook Yanks blow in their $70 an acre as nonchalantly as if it o his own methods. You _thers |about the elbow-grease! was some other fellow's money. Then o so many different farms with so | e they harvest a crop, because of this nany different sorts of soil. tiat 8| <The “Aroostook rotation” is the first | very expenditure in fertilizer and labor, " close knowledge of one Kind |¢hing, This is so nearly universal in|Which brings them in regularly' from on one farm doesn’t alwavs nor 1flvn“1m district that it has taken the|$100 to $125 an acre. To spend $70 salify him to tell another mun hoW | county’s name. It is one of but three | for the sake of getting back $50 would to handle another sort on another | crops, potatoes, oats and clover. Terry, | 1 idiocy. But to lay out $70 farm | the big Ohio grower, has likewise a back $100 is As 1 have so often preacined .the |three years' rotation, potatoes, wheat farmer must learn his own conditions ang clover. But wheat won't grow in just as it is before he can hope to succeed. He | Maine while oats will. | Geographical | vou've got to plant the can’t expect to win out just by Im-|conditions govern the cholce of that |Plamed stuff if you expect it to grow. itating some other farmer Who ma¥ |middle erop. It is only a fillereand | T, work under totally unlike conditions.|nurse, anyway, Potatoes are what the| Now | don’t know that this three- The way to raise potatoes is to raise |farmer is after, and clover is the key | year rotation of potatoes, grain and em, Just how to go at it on a creck | to potato success In both these states, | clover would hit your farm. I don’t bottorn farm of alluvial overflow, and | Out in Carbondale, Colorado .which fs | kKnow whether yowd find it profitable ust how to at it on a hilislde place | another wonderfully productive potato | to put on from 1,200 to 1,500 pounds of wash-y thin soll, are two quite dif- | regjon, the farmers also have a three | PeT acre of a costly high-grade fertil- terent propositions years' rotation. With them it is po tatoes, oats and al a Afalfa take: | izer. But it occurred to me, as Iwa: ! listening to the confab of my neigh 2 s s % he character of my |the place of clover, because it does|DOrs, the other night, that perhaps 4 'I'"r .Wh?f:,vrir,:».ufm e ot Soughy | better, there, and has all the power | there might be a farmer, here and o be interested 'In metting hold of all | Of clover to suck fertility up from the | there, in Eastern Connecticut who isn't g A N so a8 to See if any | Sub-soil and sift it out of the air, |Cconvinced that he knows it all to the of them can be twisted our way $o a8 Rather suggestive, sn't It, that in lagt word, and who might be willing $ Mip v these three phenomenally successful |0 think over the Aroostook way. If should prevail? To come back to Arocostook. They grow about 25,000,000 bushels two-thirds of this 1 Maline, Wha thetise corner of the | there is put on the clover crop, seldor United ing up Into Canada (if ever on the potatoes . They hav like & big sore tooth. When they be- | found that it does the potatoes mor an growing potatoes us a business in | 200d when it is put on the clover, an ty, about forty years ago, the | i8 less likely to produle disease. Th Y yield per acre was ninety- |clover is turned under in the fall, Th ight bushels. [For the last six years |sround is not plowed again, but is re potato sections so similar a rotatio there is such a ch i p, 1 think I've given him the bones of that method. Wheth- er he'll think it worth while to try ¢ | Aitting the skin on for his own experi- mentation is something he and he alone 1 | I8 Interested in. | should say, if any farmer was av- eraging less than two hundred bushels of marketable tubers to the acre, he {could well afford to look into almost " fany serious proposition which prom- | ised better results. | e | d Increase Your Home Comforts No nerve-racking drudgery--carrying coal or clearing out ashes. Get rid of the smoky, overheated kitchen. 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Atlantic Blaugas Company e ~ 381 Fourth Avenue New York City J. P. BARSTOW & CO., Local Agents. 25 Water St., Norwich, Conn. But one word of caution: When- ever you try some new suggestion, do |it gingerly. Don’t pull all your po- | tatoes on one chance. The open-mind- ed and progressive farmer is always anxious to do better, if he can: but the sensible farmer doesn't buy pigs in pokes, nor try to jump ditches blind- fold, nor abandon the old ways till he has definitely proved that the new are' better. And, last but not least, don’t, for heaven' sake, just because potatoes are scarce as hen's teeth this spring and worth about as much as gold dol- lars—don't jump in and plant your whole farm to them, thinking they’ll be just as high another season. The chances are that a whole lot of short- sighed greedy-guts will do that very thing, 1 cause an over-production with co onding low prices. It's going to be a good season to try out new ideas, but not to overdo the thing . Feel of the water with your | toes, but don't D plunge into the pond with all your clothes on! THE FARMER. Tolland County Miss Alvord Returning from California —Good Programme at Grange, Annie M. Alvord left Californis ! » she has spent the winter, last ay fer Connecticu On her way | She will visit ' relatives in St, Louis | Albert Parsno, who has been living | on ithe H. Petér Johnson farm, has | moved his family to Manchester,where he formerly lived Mrs. George Loomis fat Mr. | Morse, of spent the first of the with frogs, whicl 1 some day Wednesday ever morning, when the registered only 20 above | programme a. the Bolton grange last week was furnished by the mar- | ried members. The following commit- tee, J. Wesson Phelps, Ralph C. K | Mrs. Clara A P iM. Pinney, furn 1 a | gramme. " The subject of this week's | programme as prepared by the lecturer zabeth and FElila Sumner their vacation ‘with rela- tford. STAFFORD :le Farm—Crowd at Concert by Bates College Gles Club. Miss Luey Matthews of Hartford | was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. I B, | Hough over Sunday, Mr. rd 3, William Fuller of Hetl were guests last Sunaay ef r. Mra, Ausin Witt, W. A, [Liack, w student at Pratt in- stitute, New York, is spending his | Kaster vacation with his mether, Mrs. W, H. Hiack, August Gigle has hoid his farm to a | purchager in Pennsylvania whe will take possessinn the first of May Mr. and Mrs. Gisle and family have moved to Hariferd, ployed Nothing ever given in Memorial hall where Mr, Gigle is em Baking Powde 1 ABSOLUTELY PURE Makes delicicus home- baked foods of maximum quality at minimum cost. Makes home baking a pleasure The only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar No Alum — No Lime Phosphates Irah B. Sheffield were reappointed teachers in Hope Valley school. | Probate Ceurt. | The probate court heid its monthiy | session Monday afternoon. The peti- | tions of George F. Charnley to be ap- pointed admimstrator on the estate of his deceased wife, Mary L. Charn- ley, and of Willlam E. and Fannie R. so large a crowd a cert given by Bates Coll last Saturday ing. Wwas exc re the large audience. ev concert enjoyed by HEBRON Local Guests at Canterbury Golden | ¥ PO 0 Jacht Robert E. Gardiner, Wedding. @ male minor child, and change his | nan E, Bitgood, were re- Mre, Mary . Prick and Miss Chris- | hame to Hobest &, Dits | terred to May 6 mext. Session of Town Council. The town council granted orders to | pay bills to the amount of $448.51. | They avpointed Nathan G. Wilbur, Ev- | erett P. Palmer, George N. Crandall, s closed t Friday for Henry Wheeler and Alexander C. < vacation. Kenyon appraisers of damage done by J. Strand has gone to his home in | dogs; Paul M. Barber, Silas E. Barber Srattleboro, Vi. | and Bmory C. Kenyon, committee on Miss Sara Doyle has gone to spend | Memorial day exercises; Charles N. her vacation with her parents in Un- | Ken) town forest warden and James jonville. C teson and George W, Fenner forest wardemns. The list of EAST WILLINGTON tine Frink spent the week in Canter- bury to attend the golden weddng of | Mr, and Mrs. Chauncey Frink. Mr. Glass bas moved back to New ter living one year on a farm bought of tch Jones. e ———— I, one aistrict persons qualified to perform jury duty was made accorving to law. ki Districl Judge Oliver H. Willlams Mrs. A. G. Baldwin's grandchild,|#nd Town Sergeant George H. Bar- Grosvenor Dawe, has been elected del- | ber were business callers at the town e to the state ention at New | hall Monday, His father iness man-| Registration of dogs has begun at the § reial con- | the cffice of the town clerk. Straw Ride. Twenty young people from Ashaway enjoyed a straw ride to Hopkinton Ci Monday night and spent the eve- ning at the hoge of William N. Av- ery. | Walter ¥. Mills lost a valuable team se Sunday from heart disease. . HOPKINTON Board Reappoints Teachers— | Council Appoints Memorial School Town bl he #unshine club held an enjoya- le meeting with Mrs. George H. Law- | ton of Oak street, Ashaway, Wednes- | day evening, Electric lights shaway were put drawing Day Committee—List of Jurors Pre- pared. rterly meeting o ool committee was held at the town hall Monday morning. In the absence of the superintendent, his quarteriy re- port was read by Chairman E. P, Ma- thewson, Bille were ordered paid to 5 the amount of $11.92. On their ap parior. cation, Martha T. 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