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Show PLANT SPUDS ON DRY LAND Method la About Same aa With Corn Have Seed in Rows Three Feet, Six Inches Apart. The method of planting Is usually ibout the same as that for corn. The whole seed is placed about twenty inches apart in the row and the rows three feet six Inches apart. They are covered to a depth of from two and one-half to four inches. The rows are iiarrowed crosswise after planting and this harrowing or tickling is kept up tor ten days or so, or until the plants ire too large, then the cultivator is jsed the remainder of the season. The purpose of this harrowing and cultivation cultiva-tion is to prevent the evaporation of moisture and to destroy the weeds. Some farmers advocate the cultivating svery ten days, or as often as the con-Jition con-Jition of the soil permits. In our dry land region the surface of the soil should never become crusted. Potatoes handled in this way .nearly always produce a favorable crop. How-sver, How-sver, there may be a few factors that will interfere with the production of a good crop. In nearly all parts of the West the potato beetle causes a great deal of damag. No one need experience experi-ence much difficulty with this bug If a rigid process of spraying is followed. The vines are sprayed with a solution Df paris green, in the proportion of one pound to twenty gallons of water. This Aill treat a large area of the potatoes. In the application of this solution we . should never place it upon the vines when there is danger of rain, but it should be applied early In the morning jf some bright, clear day. Two or three crops of potatoes can be raised upon the same land In succession if care Is used in the -method of soil preparation and in seed "selection. |