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We call special attention to the advertisement
of Mr. J. B. Stickle, of Marlboro, Ohio. Mr.
Stickle makes a specialty of pure bred Light
and Dark Brahmas, Buff and Partridge Cochins,
Brown and White Leghorns, Silver Gray Dorkings
Houdans. All his stock is warranted to be pure
bred.
Do not fail to read the advertisement of A.
L. Banks, Mount Kisko, New York. Mr. Banks’
specialty is Brown Leghorns, and his stock is
second to none in America.
W. H. Todd, Vermillion, Ohio, will furnish
first-class birds, bred from his Prize Strains and
winner of 854 prizes in three .years at the great
State and poultry shows. Write him for price
list.
Ellis House, Poultry Fancier, Bricknel, Ind.,
Breeds Berkshire Swine, Buff and Partridge
Cochins and Light Brahmas. His stock have
taken first and second premiums. Read his
advertisement.
We call special attention to the advertisement
of Mr. F. A. Stratton, of Worcester, Mass.,
breeder of fowls. He warrants all his stock to
be of the first class in every respect, and pure
breeds. He makes Houdans a specialty.
Ln another column will be found the adver
tisement of E. P. Lawrence, manufacturer of
Lawrence’s Patent Exhibition Cage. This Cage
has been adopted by the New England Poultry
(Hub, and by various other clubs throughout
[he New England States, and highly recommend
ed by the National Poultry Association. Any of
our readers in need of one, would do well to
send to him for price list and sample cage.
Mu. G. W. Cleveland, of Millington, Mass.,
is a breeder exclusively of Dark Brahmas, and
having devoted his whole attention to that breed
feels confident in recommending them as being
of pure breed and perfect in feather. He gives
particular attention to having his birds for
breeding well treated. Read carefully his ad
vertisement in another column.
Notice in another column the advertisement
of Mr. J. B. Davis, of Northboro, Mass., dealer
in pure bred Light and Dark Brahmas, Brown
Leghorns, Partridge Cochins and Dominiques
Mr. J. B. Davis has devoted much care and ex
pense to the breeding of these birds, and war
rants them pure bred, and perfect in feather.—
Semi for circulars, etc.
The attention of our readers is called to the
advertisement of Rufus Holman, breeder of
choice poultry, Leicester, Mass. Neither time
nor expense have been spared in perfecting his
superior breeds. Mr. Holman has made a
specialty of breeding Plymouth Rocks for eight
years, an 1 feels confident in reoomending his
stock, as being fully up to the highest standard,
ami warrants them as such.
Brown Leuhorns, a specialty. Mr. W. J. '
Wheeler, of Worceestor, Mass., breeder of pure
Brown Leghorns. He makes the Wheeler breed
a specialty. The attention of breeders and
dealers in choice poultry is called to his pure
bred stock. Send for particulars, etc.
Mr. E. C. Aldridge, of Hyde Park, Mass.,
makes a specialty of Houdan Fowls. He breeds
no others—and feels confident that having de
voted his entire attention to the breeding of one
variety, that he has perfected that breed to a
higher standard than can be attained by breed
ers of a variety of fowls. Send to him for
Eggs and try his excellent breed.
F.-uecial attention is called to the advertise
ment of Mr. F. C. Furbush, of Westboro, Mass.,
breeder of superior Buff and White Cochins,
Silver Duckwing,ami Black-Red Game Bantams.
Mr. Furbush has taken great pride and spared
no expense to perfect his superior stock of pure
bred chick*. He warrants all his stock to be of
the be«t and truly handsome. His stock of Buff
and W hite Cochins, and Bantams, he warrants
as having no superior.
Game Fowls, second t<> none-, they will stand
steel ; for courage an i beauty they are superior
to any. Satisfaction guaranteed. For further
particulars see advertisement. Write Mr. A. W.
Mudgett, Warren, Me.
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Mr. John H. Hague, of Providence, R. 1.,
who, by-the-way, is one of the best taxidermists
in the New England States, presented to our
corresponding editor, Mr. J. F. Riday, a very
fine pair of preserved quails, they being stuffed
in a very superior manner, and presents a very
life-like appearance. Mr. Hayne is a dealer in
artificial eyes for birds and animals, and will
preserve your pets in a very satisfactory manner.
The Domestic Monthly, a journal of fashion,
current literature, and art. This magazine is
just what the title indicates. Domestic Monthly,
Publishers, New York.
Peter Hendreson &Co., Seedsmen, 35 Court
landt street, New York. Send for their illus
trated catalogue and try their seeds. They war
rant them fresh and true to name.
The Golden Sheaf of Sunday-School Music,
suitable for Sunday-schools, Bible classes and
the home circle. By Asa Hull and R. G. Staples.
We believe that the general want of Sunday
schools is well-provided for in the Golden Sheaf,
and that the grains of gospel truth gathered
and bound into this Sheaf need but to be faith
fully impressed upon the susceptible mind of
youth to prepare them for garners in the great
, storehouse of Heaven. Published by A. Hull,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Fits cured by Dr. Chas. T. Price. See adver
tisement.
Attention. —We would respectfully call the
attention of advertisers and advertising agents to
the Methodist Advocate, published at 110 White
hall street, Atlanta, Ga., by Hitchcock & Walden.
The Advocate has a circulation of three thousand
copies weekly, and more names coming in daily.
It circulates in every State of the South. Send
for specimen copies and advertising rates. It
will pay you to advertise in the Methodist Advo
cate. Try it and be convinced of this truth.
The Atlanta Daily Evening Commonwealth, of
fice in Southern Publishing Company’s Build
ing, corner Pryor and Mitchell. The Daily
Evening Commonwealth is the only evening paper
published in Atlanta, ami is the most lively,
spicy, cheapest and best advertising medium in
the city. Try it, and satisfy yourself. Terms,
$5 per annum. Col. B. F. Sawyer, the proprie
tor, is well ami favorably known as an industrious
and intelligent man, and as an editor there are
few who excel him. Wm. R. Hanleiter, the city
editor, is also a gentleman of fine talent ami
great industry. With such men at the head of
a such paper,the Commonwealth is bound to win.
The Great Cause of Human Misery.—We
i direct the attention of those interested to the
advertisement, under this head, in another col
umn. Send on your stamps and procure the
Lecture.
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Dark Brahmas.
Atltnta, Ga., April Ist, 1875.
Mr. Editor:— You are authorized to say that
I will give, in the fall, a trio of full-blooded Dark
Brahmas to any one who will send you thirty
subscribers at SI.OO each, within the next nine
ty days. Atlanta Poultry House.
The Sunny South.
We have examined its articles with care, and
do not hesitate in pronouncing it the best
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tiful specimen of artistic typography ever issued
from the American press. We consider it the
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Positively the Last Notice.
The Concert and Grand Distribution of $250,-
000 in Gifts will positively take place Monday,
May 31st, 1875, or the
MONEY WILL BE REFUNDED.
The Texas Gift Concert Association, in aid of
public improvements in the city of Denison,
Texas, stands to-day the first and foremost of
such enterprises. Its managers are men of
characteristic energy and enterprise, and have
the unqualified endorsement of the best citizens
of Denison and Texas. Their list of gifts to be
distributed is unequalled. $200,000 in cash,
and $50,000 in valuable improved real estate,
will be distributed. Their capital prize is $50,-
000 in cash. This is most emphatically an en
terprise for the people. Tickets are put at the
low price of one dollar to allow all an opportu
nity to take a share in this Texas “ Bonanza.”
The time is short. Send in your orders for
tickets at once, so the numbers may be carefully
rogistered. If you cannot buy of a local agent,
send orders direct, or send for special rates to
clubs. See advertisement in another column.
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POTATO CULTURE.
Shall We Plant Large or Small Potatoes.
We call the special attention of our farmers
to the valuable and interesting article read by
J. V. IL Scoville before the Central New York
Farmers’ Club, May 15, 1874, on potato culture,
and we would be glad if our farmers would try
the experiment and report the same to us for
publication :
“I shall confine my remarks almost entirely
to the cultivation of the potato, as one of the
most important staple products we raise, and
when, as during the past season in this country,
the crop fell short of the usual yield by about
17,000,000 bushels, may it not behove us to study
with some care the best method of seeding and
cultivation ? The first crop I usually raise on
the inverted sod of my pastures and meadows
is potatoes, my location not being suited to the
successful raising of corn. The meadows are en
riched by a previous manuring, usually by fine
stable manure, drawn directly from the stable,
in the winter, and spread broadcast upon the
fields, though the ground may be covered with
snow. I usually plow about eight inches in
depth. Never more than two crops of potatoes
are taken from the same field, when a grain
crop and seeding follow; but when plowing for
the second crop of potatoes, the plow should be
put down a little deeper than it was the first
time. For the fitting of green sward for planting
I have never found anything so effectual as Nish
witz harrow or pulverizer, for the rapidity with
which its work is done, and its use is becoming
more general for the covering of grain instead
of the old-fashioned harrow.
These pulverizers give a lifting motion to the soil
by means of the disc (a wheel of thin iron about
ten inches in diameter), which revolves on an
axle and runs on an angle which may be varied
at pleasure. With this implement it is better
to go diagonally of the furrows. The finishing
may be done with the fine harrow. The rows
may be furrowed out with a light plow, but a
horse-maker, which will mark out four rows at a
time, will answer every purpose, and I think it
an advantage that the person covering them
should press his foot upon the potato before
covering it with dirt. lam not prepared to say
that deeper planting might not be an advantage,
but surface planting might render the labor of
digging much less laborious, which is a matter of
considerable importance when the digging must
be <lone by hand. I think it better to mark out
the ground both ways, and I prerfer to have my
rows three feet by two feet nine inches, which
gives upon an acre 5,280 hills. When I have
occasion to plant upon a side hill, I mark out the
ground only one way, rows three feet apart length
wise of the hill, not up and down, and pay no
particular attention to distance ofthe hills apart,
and cultivate them only one way. This prevents
the dirt from washing down the hill in heavy
showers. But I preferground which will admit
of working out both ways, and m soon as the
rows can be seen, run the cultivator through
them. With the second hoeing pulverize the
ground thoroughly, and run a biller between
the rows, and finish with the hoe. I append
the results of some experiments instituted to de-
termine the best method of preparing seed for
planting. The variety expermented with was
the Oneida Peach Blow, a seedling of the garnet
Chili, originating in this immediate locality.
The Chili has long been raised in this section,
and still continues to be the main dependence
for general use and local marketing. But I
refer to the Oneida Peach Blow, because I
think they are superior to the Chili as a table
potato, a better looking potato, and more pro
lific in yield.
SEASON of 1873.
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No. 1. One eye to a piece and only
one piece in a hili. .... 2% 136% 3or 4 186%
No. 2. One eye to a piece and pot’s
two pieces in a hill 6 189 7 196
No. 3. Two eyes to a piece
and one piece in a hill 6 191% 10 201%
No. 4. Two eyes to a piece
and two pieces in a hi 11.... 12% 257 16 273
No. 5. Three eyes to a piece
and one piece in a hdl 8 1-5 214 7 221
No. 6. Three eyes to a piece
and two pieces in ahi 11.... 15 5-6 259% 14 273%
No. 7. Four eyes to a piece
and one piece in a hill 11 4-5 232% 14% 247
No. 8. Four eyes to a piece
and two pieces to ahi 11... 21 1-6 295 17% 312%
No. 9. Five eyes to a piece
and one piece in a hill 14 258% 16% 275
No. 10. One large potato.... 43% 305% 43% 349
No. 11. One large potato cut
in two, one piece in a hill 21 1-6 263 20 283
No. 12. One medium potato 25% 289 18 4-5 317
NO. 13. One medium potato
divided, two pieces in a hill 27 300 27 327
No. 14. One medium potato,
four pieces in a hill 28 1-5 269 33 302
No. 15. One medium potato
cut in two, one piece in a
hill 15% 262 12 274
No. 16. Seed end 10% 259% 10 269%
No. 17. Stem end 21 1-6 289 20 209
No. 18. One small potato.... 11 5-6 205% 28 273%
No. 19. One small potato di-
vided, two pieces in a hill. 11 5-6 272% 16% 280
No. 20. One small potato di-
vided, one piece in a hill.. 6% 230 1 5 8 1-5 238 21
No. 21. One medium potato
cut to single eyes 30% 262 70% 382%
No. 22. One good sized pota-
to, eyes dug out (30 hills
missing) 33 134 16% 150%
No. 23. One good sized pota-
to, eyes dug out, Garnet
Chili’ (22hills missing).... 35% 155% 10% 166
No. 24. 58 hills planted with
the parings of single potato 195 37% 232%
No. 25. 38 hills, Garnet Chili,
planted with the parings of
single potato. These hills
were, throughout the sea
son. later and less vigorous
in their growth 171% 40 211%
No. 26. 74 hills were planted
out of the 76 potatoes,
thickly pared as noted
above, and of these, ten
hills grew, but were later
in coining up, and the crop
was 19 potatoes, weighing
11 pounds '
Except as noted above, one row of each kind
was planted, containing seventy-five hills, and
the result figured out as if by the acre.
The cuttings of the first nine rows were rolled
in plaster, and in the remaining rows, with the
exception of No. 10, about a tablespoonful of
piaster was thrown upon the potato in the hill
previous to covering. The culture was ordinary
field culture.
At harvest time, “ No. 1,” planted with one eye
to a piece, several hills had only one good-sized
potato, several with only two, and very few with
three in a hill, and in this row there were only
three or four small potatoes. The difference in
yield, as presented in Nos. 1 and 2, between
one and two single eyes in a hill, is sixty bush
els.
The same comparison between Nos. 3 and 4,
having two eyes to a piece, and one or two
pieces in a hill, shows a difference in favor of
the latter of bushels. As between Nos. 5
and 6, having three eyes to a piece, and one and
two pieces in a hill, the difference in favor of the
stronger seeding is 53jf bushels. The same diff
erence is as strongly marked in Nos. 7 and 8,
with four eyes to a piece, in favor of No. 8 by 65 j
bushels; while between this and No. 9, with
only one piece in a hill, is a falling off of 37|
bushels. Concerning No. 9,1 would here remark
that care was taken that no piece should be
planted having more than five eyes, and from
my memorandum at the time of planting I find
this note: “Requiring much care in cutting,
and but few of the seed ends left in.”
The largest yield was that of No. IG, and, if I
remember rightly, no plaster was put in these
hills ; yield 349 bushels, requiring 43| bushels
as amount of seed used, and presenting
astrong contrast beeween Nos. 10 and 11, of
potatoes equal in size except that the latter were
cut in two lengh wise and yielded 66 bushels less
per acre. Again, a difference in simply cutting
seed is shown between Nos. 12 ami 13, in an in
creased yield of 20 bushels in No. 13, with only
an increase of bushels of seed while too much
cutting, as in No. 14, shows a diminished yield
as compared with No. 13. The second largest
yield, No 21, one medium potato cut to single
eyes,shows an undue proportion of small potatoes,
70|' k bushel8.