Show PROFITABLE CROP CROPIS IS DISCOVERED IN EARLY POTATOES POT Many an t growers browers in Missouri are arc findIng find find- fin Ing lug that early Irish potatoes are arc n a profitable crop to grow STOW for tho the local market or to ship Growers should remember rom ember that a n large larse part of the success of at the tho potato crop depends on I getting an nn early car start so that the crop I Is well along toward maturity before botole hot weather according to J. J T. T Rosa I Jr of at the thc University of ot Missouri college col col- lege of at agriculture as The Missouri early cary potato crop should bo be ready read to go goo to I market marlet by b July Jul 1st thus following up UI the tho shipments of or early or now new po potatoes po- po from froni tho the south and preceding the crop in moro more northern sections The Tile latter Jatter part of oC March Is tho tile Ideal planting time Early Ohio and Irish cobbler have haye been found the best va va- va in our experiment station tests while most strains of tho the bliss triumph I havo o proved pro unsatisfactory Commercial Commer Commer- cial cia fertilizers have havo also proved pro c to be an important means of or increasing increasing- po potato potato po- po tato yields A complete completo fertilizer fertiliser will probably produce tho greatest Increase in yields ields but acid phosphate alone alono pro pro- ducks duces uc s sen very en marked ell results Plenty Plent of or seed seeli should bo used it pays pas to cut the seed pieces so that the individual piece picco weighs at least one ono ounce or more Small whole tubers taken talen tal en from rom otherwise healthy northern grown seed or from fall ta homegrown homo rown seed have hare been found to produce a good g crop if It planted early earh |