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Show POTATOES ARE GROWN WITH EMBALMING FLUID. It seems very curious that a chemical chemi-cal extensively used to preserve the dead in the way Of an embalming fluid could le successfully used as help toward growing good potatoes, but such Is the case. It has been found that a proper solution so-lution of formaldehyde will insure a most excellent crop of the finest potatoes, po-tatoes, where h has formerly been quite difficult to make certain soil grow anything but a very Inferior crop To prevent scaiiby or rusty appear Ing potatoes, the potatoes to be planted plant-ed should be soaked tor two hours In a solution composed of one pint of pure formaldehyde to Bfty gallons of water. It may be placed in large tubs, and the potatoes put In burlap sacks and laid in the liquir for a ( ouple of hours, and then spread out on clean grass to dry for an hour or more before cutting cut-ting and planting The potatoes should be cui Into pieces pie-ces having two or more eyes from which to sprout. One good plan where a number of bushels of potatoes are to be planted is to have the liquid in bnrrels, with spigot at the bottom for drawing off liquid. . Potatoes should not he gathered up after being treated, in the aaine sacks 43 ' "j.'a..iJL '"."" i Yn i i'ii' tfr or baskets they were in prior to be jH Ing soaked, as they are apt to be re iniected more or less by the disease which is being fought. In certain localities the potato has become so diseased it is almost lin- NNH possible to secure pure healthy seed, and this fofYnaldehyde process ia rem- 'm edying the difficulty largely iH |