Show HOLLOW HEARTED POTATOES DES I 1 jj r i a U tho the nicil In incha nHa fagid tie ti J g wurt causes hollow hoit t ili in p air ta toca this alvery luf y was vaa sri cil cd iy ay y a of agbor a itina aties in tho colnai jb as of the rural noti K v yorker A laige inge pe percentage ge of their correspondents quitted huit ted that they alid t id not cot know but each expressed opinion lout LOCI regard inq tho the cacias and ami tho the prevention it ven tion professor L 11 II dailey said that ho be had bad alwilda supposed hollo heart to be lite duo to ove overgrowth growth al vari elira s aro diore to ta it than ho he thought tl 04 t birin flis liel vanc tiei of size grosu gio wn shoil only rich in nitrogen would lie bo the trouble dr VV V C sturn of tho the station ila incI na III the CLuse of hollow beatt py a potato rot fun fungus lie ire said nothing but adiao lutey sound feel should over ever bo be used u bcd it is not a yF peculiar culiar characteristic of cert iiii kantles varS vant liei les though na as a rule rate carlt oat varieties virie ties aro are less lid lili to attack it tack f dr doub teil abo accepted theory that there is greater frequency frequez cy of bellaw heart beart ill largo than iii ia anix po dr byrun D halsted lil did not know tile the cause nor the reason why large liota toes are ar oftener iw fici flow heart edulian email ones ue ile tho tight probably large aatlo tubers were of enest affected affect eil because the be excess in ili size all this of tissue ht at the center not altogether for tho the sanio banio reason that a large tiro ateo hollow while a 9 small ono of kind has a celli center I 1 i As to f n alf way in the matter be that flint the tha c portion of a potato is ia the nonliving portion it il apin aping the storehouse tor for to tio bo used by the tho young buus buds when they unfold these bud 9 ami tile the vital parts associated with them alit iu lying somewhat midway bil between tween the surface of the potato aud and its center la in tho the development of a potato we can call see that there might lie a cavity developed in ID the center by the failure of tho the sufficient development of storage tissue to occupy nil all the space As to tho the breeding bree diug out it would seem probable that it could be done to some extent because anything like hollow heart is likely to tie be somewhat a matter of inheritance call it a kealm weal mess ess if you yet please and therefore ther eforo one should use strong instead of weak seed professor W P F massey hazarded the opinion that hollow heart Is due to an excess of nitrogenous food in a moist poil thero may bo be somo some fungous growth connected with it but lie be cannot think thero there is any fungous canse for fer it the potato tuber tober is the plants reservoir for tho the storing of starch for the food of tho plant another season if the exec excess of nitrogen stimulated the vital principal of the plant to an activity in cell formation in advance of the supply of mineral food needed fur for building ing there is sure to be a gap gal aumen bera and its usually nally whore where there is ii gica greatest test activity ile ho does riot not believe there is ia any heredity about it with an abundant supply of potash he thinks there would bo be little of it with plenty of nitrogen niti ogen and a deficiency of potash there r will ill bo be hollow hear hearts ts lisa ally I 1 |