Potato Cultivation.

Hastings Standard, Issue 157, 28 October 1896, Page 3

Potato Cultivation.

A correspondent of an Australian journal states that one of his neighbors has a good scheme for clearing potato ground of weeds. This setler ploughs about two weeks before planting, and tits the ground very thoroughly after the weeds have sprouted, finishing with the float, lie then plants with a Bobbins planter, and eight or ten days later, before the potatoes have appeared in sight, he goes over it again with a float. His float is the ordinary one, made of three scantlings, about 10ft long, upon which he rides. This levels and pulverises the earth and kills all weeds that may have escaped before or started since planting: the result is that there is scarcely a weed to be killed by the cultivator. He cultivates with a two-horse cultivator, throwing the earth close against the plants, and the result o! this thorough

v, .k. even in a wet season like tlr present, is that not. more than :• hu.-'* : of WeMls could 1 grtheml :: e'l is-ere !i"ld. The I'obi •> planter puts ;!)(• j.oi.ii-v- i*tt*vn l'f h a depth in the ground i!s;i i I lie 'io.ihng do >.< not disturb tla- seed ;>t ali, ibe ground being<j>iit• evil and iigular fr«.-in the llo: ti j :W!:::i -pi