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Show ! plan for securing best producing fotato seed for following season i 1 3" J i, t -v 'A ' Harvesting Potatoes Seed Should Be Selected From the Best Plats. (Prepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) Do not wait until planting time next spring to select your seed potatoes. Do not even wait until harvest time this fall. Begin now by making a study of the plants. This( Is the plan that should be followed by potato growers who want to have seed that will produce pro-duce the. highest yields. Potato growers grow-ers should have a seed plat, which major maj-or may not be a part of the main crop, and from the best-growing, disease-resistant plants in tis plat, which produce pro-duce high yields of marketable-sized potatoes, select their seed for the following fol-lowing year. Ah area of one-tenth or one-fifteenth of the entire acreage will usually provide sufficient seed for the following season's planting. While it is an advantage to start the seed plat with selected material the work may be begun during the growing grow-ing season with any good stock of promising quality planted in suitable soil and properly cared for. The best portion of the field therefore should be selected for the seed plat. It should be well drained, frequently cultivated and thoroughly sprayed. Inspect Seed Plat. Several times during the growing season the seed plat should be inspected. inspect-ed. All weak, degenerate and diseased hills and those showing varietal mixtures mix-tures should be pulled, so that only the progeny ofs healthy hills of the correct variety will remain at harvest lime. Plants showing stem rot either at or below the surface of the soil, plants developing any type of abnormal rolling of the leaves, those with mottled mot-tled or crinkled leaves, and any plants that are stunted, weakened or that make unthrifty growth, should be discarded. dis-carded. If practicable it is best to dig the seed plat by hand, care being taken to elminate all low-yielding hills and those producing an undue proportion of small or unshapely tubers. In harvesting, avoid unnecessary cutting, bruising or other injury, since the vitality of damaged dam-aged tubers is reduced. Gather and store the seed potatoes in slat crates. Place them as soon as possible after harvesting In a cool reasonably moist storage house provided with good ventilation ven-tilation and maintained at a temperature tempera-ture of 30 to 40 degrees F. Work Stock Over Carefully. Before the next planting time the stock should be carefully worked over to remove all badly cut or bruised tubers tu-bers and those showing serious scab or black scurf and decay of any kind. Tubers Tu-bers badly off type should also be discarded, dis-carded, as should any showing abnormal abnor-mal discoloration of flesh, which can be seen, of course, only at the time of cutting. If scab or black scurf is present in any degree, It is advisable to treat the seed by covering for 3f minutes in a solution containing foui ounces of corrosive sublimate to 30 gallons of water. V |