Show RAISE GOOD POTATOES best results obtained by plo plowing deep in the fall not advisable to plant seed M mon 0 rs than four inches deep in rows row three feet apart irrigation Is 1 not necessary if you are la in a potato belt you ear ralso raise potatoes very easily without lr in gatlon rl but it if the soil la is not right it 11 la Is a vory very matter to raise po katoch either with or on without uon t says tho the ranch and range kic F x icily natly what constitutes a potato sell bell no ono one knows knowel but wo we are finding out s overal several elements without which ch we cannot raise them thein the chief oi of these theme being potash and line lime seems seema to make little difference to potatoes they grow equally well vell on the top of a mountain or down nt at sea level provided the season la Is long enough there are certain rays of the sun which ore are to potato foliage foll aeo und and also to bean foliage and in dry clear years they produce a blight or so BO injure the stems and leaves that the bacilli find a lodgment and causa what wo we term blight this disease it ii not noticed much in the cloudy atmosphere mo sphere of the east but Is common ln in tho west on account of tho the alti albl tude tilde and thin atmosphere for this reason a cool north exposure Is the tha best for potatoes and the less wind tho the better the best potatoes are arc obtained by plowing beep in the tall fall avid and then by working land over again Is 1 the spring before planting it Is impossible to give the bew dates of planting because certain varieties do better in certain localities and each variety has its own time for fo planting in nebraska kansas and dakota the rural new yorker to la thought highly of the early rose and the early ohio we find almost everywhere in new mexico tho the and in some borne parts of colorado the early six weeks are recommended although potatoes need deep plowing it in i not ad to plant them more than fou inches deep the rows can be alarea feet apart and tho the hills in the row not less than two feet it if the field to Is harrowed as soon as the sprouts appear and even should they be covered it will do more good than harm then when the sprouts come through again they can be harrowed some more aft er this they should bo be cultivated every time a crust forms forma and finally hilled up with ft a disk cultivator about a 8 week after they commence to bloom some say a little later some soma a littly earlier but it seems to depend some what on the habit of the potato in question the ides idea being to hill bill them up when the tuber is starting to maka a quick growth in dry years the vines should be thinned by hand dow donn to one sprout to the hill thus wo we obtain maybo maybe Is ices potatoes but of a more marketable size alze f good sized potatoes should b bo cut for seed one good eye to each aach hill bill Is sufficient cleat ten or 12 inch fall plowing will yield sometimes bushels W U the tha acre the highest we can expect from froin eix ix to seven inch work Is about buh buah els but in dry years the shallow plowing will give next to nothing w while ahli the deep plowing will do nearly as aa well as ever |