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Show Timely Points For Potato Grower Irish potatoes are grown in most home gardens, hut there are just a tew points in the potalo-gi owing game that the home gardener is liable lia-ble to overlook and which are important. im-portant. First of all. potatoes grow quickly, and their food supply must be ah ready and waiting for them in the soil. Second, they are heavy feeders feed-ers and want plenty of plant toon to draw upon. In other words, the soil for Irish potatoes must not onl be rich but especially so in certain kinds of plant food. Land that was well manured the previous season and which contains plenty of organic matter is best. Tho first step in preparing the soil will bo to spade or plow it to a depth of S or 9 inches, then break up the clods, if there arej any, and pulverize Ihe soil practical-j ly as deep as it is spaded or plowed. Commercial fertilizers give good results for growing potatoes especially especial-ly if the fertilizer contains potash, as potatoes require mere po:n-di lli.tii Is usually present in tho soil. Small, shriveled potatoes are not fit for seed. Only plump, disease-free I potatoes, on which the sprouts are just beginning to start, should be 'used for seed. It takes about ten bushels (ll Oil pounds) of seed pota-J toes to plant an acre. j Seed potatoes should not be cut i until all ready to plant. Whenever; seed potatoes are cut and allowed to stand the cut surfaces dry out. turn black, iind the seed loses vi- tabty very rapidly. Scabby or dis-. eased seed potatoes should not be used for plaining. The variety ot potatoes to plant will depend largely large-ly upon locality. Treat the seed before ill tii.g with either formalin or corro.Mve- t-nb'.i-mate. Then cut into chunky p-.c. es having at least one good eye to a set. , Po not plant potatoes too dep. four inches aiout the prefer depth. Leave the nn; c '.ui.i le?l end see that there are no c'.eds. stones, or pieces of fed directly over tiie hills. Fouuccs are one cf ike !ie-l garden crops to plant in the -i-riug. and it is safe to put the seed .n tae ground two or three weeks be-tere be-tere tho date of the lai heavy frost In ease there should be a freeze after the plants ccme up. cover them with :-:i itch or two of locse earth to pi o ei them They may be un-...vcttd un-...vcttd as soon as the weather w iuis up or they come up through t'ae oii themselves. By C. 0. Stott. , v o'-uiy Farm Agent. |