Show HILL SELECT YOUR TOTO SEED POTATOES where a farmer grows his own seed potatoes he can greatly increase both the yield and the quality of his crop by hiff hill selection this statement la 19 issued by professor george stewart of the utah agricultural experiment station who further says especially in this time of low price for farm products selection of seed la in such a way as to increase both acre yield and marketable quality is I 1 the tanners farmers greatest means ot of defense there Is no real surplus of anything except wheat last year there was a great surplus of potatoes but there is no hold over of this crop and export or import is practically out of the question on account of great bulk and the demand market tor for potatoes is therefore nationwide nation wide and not world wild and as a consequence any surplus no matter how excessive is wiped out in one year the succeeding season Is as likely as not to be one of shortage at lease of merely normal production year in and year out the man who grows a normal acreage of good marketable potatoes will be ahead so tar far as this crop Is concerned with the rapid spread ot of tuber borne diseases that are almost ruining the crop in some sections good seed Is absolutely essential to successful potato production where a farmer grows his own seed there Is just one way to make it satisfactory he must by all means avoid unselected seed the most practical method of selection is to dig by hand about or hills of potatoes from a part of the field where the stand is good and where the vines stayed fresh and green to the last let each hill be placed lust just where it was dug and when all are ready a careful examination should be made and the poor hills sacked and removed until only the best yielding and most uniform potatoes are left I 1 would reduce the hills saved to not over one hundred which I 1 would sack or box carefully and put in a cool well ventilated storage until spring when a separate seed plot in clean land lana should be made in choosing hills any tendency to small tubers or to mi ones must be avoided the best Is none too good |