THE WISCONSIN FARMER.



A Kaw who Kaws b" beet hnteets, Xa,
          Sundry Others who Don't.
  PUBLrsHmas FAnSIhX:-Enclosed please find
$8 00 to be applied as follows: * * * *
  I would write an article for the FAauzm but
that I have nothing of much interest to write,
save that farmers in this locality  re -too
poor " to advance their agricultural interests
by subscribing for the FARxEa! that business
generally, and farming in particular, is at rath-
er a low ebb, just now; and that the excuses
that have invariably met my frequent endeav-
ors to obtain -ubscribers ahould have been their
greatest incentives for patronizing it. viz : "the
war,' and "1 hard times."
  A great many are disaffected toward the
"Indian land." because it is so sandy. I sup-
pose it will not produce as much grain per
acre as the prairies, but every country has its
drawbacks and for my part, I am very well
satisfied witb our part of the country. If the
soil is not so productive, we have such beauti-
5ul qof. water, and for the healthfulness of our
c.limate. this scction cannot be excelled.
  ' e c n raise good fruit, too, if we try.
iast year soacr farm produced Nt bushels of
wheat per acre, and we had an average prairie
yield this yeart You now and then, see a well
regulated. productive farm on the "sand,"
even: and why '    Its proprietor takes the
FARuER, and profits, as far as his limited means
will allow. by its teachings.
  Some farmers complain that they have to
cultivate 4(0 acres to get what ought to be the
product of ten.  Now, if such men took the
PARaMaa, they would know that the fault lay
more in the cultivator than in the land, and if
they improved by the reading. as they ought,
they would save enough extra labor in a few
years to supply themselves and families with
all the reading that would profit them-more
would be useless. Every man should patron-
ize the FASnUR, whether rich or poor, Who
would promote the agricultural interests of his
State, s also to show to its pains-taking editor
that his labors in that direction are appre-
ciated.                   H. J. KIENDALL.
  outdo, A[Mate Ce, Doe. 1l, 1'S2.



            Cur hfr Potato 31t

  The 8ciestoc Ame ic- says, lime applied to
potatoes after they are dug, will prevent them
from rotting. It applies the lime as the pota-
toes ae put into the bin, say about a bushel
of lime to 40 or 60 of potatoes.
  The other day, while calling on a neighbor
of ours (Dr. U. Potter), he look us into his eel-
lar and showed us his potatoes, all limed, and
some covered with sand. He saw his potatoes
were affected, when he put them into the chear,
and soon after began to rot badly. He then
applied the lime.
  The lime had absorbed the moisture and
most of the rot, so that the potatoes were dry
and nice. The rot was arrested, and the pota-
toes were better in quality, more mealy-the
result of the lime.
  We know lime applied to the soil will im-
prove potatoes: and here it is demonstrated
that it will benefit them after they are grown.
I have had ocular and experimental evidence
of the truth of this. A very commom potato
may thus be improved.
  This is of importance. If we can improve
coarse, watery tubers by the application of a
little lime, to say nothing of the prevention of
rot, a very great point is gained.
  Another thing.  Potatoes should be left in
the ground till late.  This is the practice in
some parts of the country. If left till winter
compels them to be removed, those intending
to rot will do so, and will soon be among the
missing ones-absolutely decayed, gone into
the soil, and only sound ones remain.
  This is better than to bother with them after
they are secured.  To be sure, there are less
in a hill and those not of the best qualiy, for
the best always decay, especially the ripest.
That probably accounts for those remaining in
the hill (left late) being generally small, and
more or lens unripe. Dig a potato before it is
ripe, and it will not rot; hence those dug very
early will be sound. Have we not here a hint
toward the discovery of the rot?- Val. Farter.

  CLOVmw AS A FRITILIZS .-John Mears says
in the Boston Cultivator, that a gentleman of
Livingstone Co., N. Y., in 1889, in conversa-
tion with him, stated " that a lot of land came
into his possession, which by bad management
had produced only six or eight bushels of wheat
to the acre, Ile put it in clover, sowing two
bushels of plaster per acre. This crop, when
brown from ripeness, aras turned under. The
process was repeated, and the lot put to wheat.
which yielded 40 bushels per are for four
ares together. While one of the clover crops
was on the ground, he measured off two feet
squar, or four superficial feet, digging to the
depth of one foot, and removing all earthy
matter. It gave over one pound per foot, or
more than 22 tons of vegetable matter to the
&am."



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