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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 1, 9 July 1874, Page 4

Potatoes. — A good plan with potatoes is not to manure for the crop, but always for the previous one, and that heavily ; the test crops of potatoes are jrrown after heavily dunged green crops. Plant early. Pick out at the time of digging up the c*op a sufficient number of pecks or bnsbtlo, as the case may be, for seed potatoes, according to the s : ze given to guide the hands employed, and have them carefully housed for future u*e. Plant whole potato? s of a fair medium size; get them ten inches apart in the ro*s, these to be twenty ser,en inches distant, thug leaving plenty of room to earth up — a great desideratum in successful culture. Let the to -s run north and south. Few people regard this as a matter of any consequence ; let any sceptic try the difference. To gr. w larae potatoes have the ground menu'ed in the autumn, and roughly dug. Then, at ppring-time(on the day before planting the feed), scoop out the greater portion 61 the eyes, leaving only two or three at the most; never fork between the rows, and i only use a rake to remove the surfac? weed?, slightly drawing the soil at the same time to the items, when abo>t nine inches high ; in doing this, and during the progress of the growth, avoid as much as possible treading ou the soil, dive ibe potatoes plenty of room. The following good advice was given by an old farmer to his sons : — " Have r.o dealings, that can pos'iblv be avoided, with your near neighbors. The disregard of this caution will certainly lead rto.Fquables and strife. Take no receipts on loose pieces of paper. Carry a receipt book in your pocket, and take all receipts in it. Copy ( r have copied all bills in your hook, fo that you must at glance see thVcost oi any article or branch of expense. Without accurate accounts you must fall behind hand. Form no intimacies with your near neigbbors under a eeven years' acquaintance. The rigid observance of this maxim preserved me. from strife, and from loss by those. With the rest I was on the best of terms. It is in the power of* very honest man, who means to -m<un+ain his honesty, to refrain from in-dulging-in: expenses which he cannot afford A disregard to this maxim, the result of ignorant indolence of their own affairs, has ruiDed thousands. They did not know what they could afford, and some, I fear, . did not care." i' *