| Show some excellent tips on raising ideal potatoes too few farmers appreciate quality in pot potatoes atnes they have become so accustomed cu cus tomed to planting common seed on any klud kind of ground that happens to be aval available lable that eliat the idea of growing smooth fine grained finely flavored potatoes seems too absurd to give consideration Ide ration excessively heavy soils hear bear large crops of soggy flavorless potatoes the light sandy or gravelly soils pro duce dine smaller crops of delicately flavored floury potatoes it Is only the man who plants good seed and gives hn hla potato rows ideal care and cultivation who appreciates the superior flavor of quality potatoes most of the common diseases may he be avoided by selecting seed and soaking it for two hours in a solution composed of one pint of liquid formable llyde de and 15 gallons of water for leaf blights baights spray the plants with avith bordeaux bor denux mixture by putting an ounce of parts green in every ten gallons of bordeaux hor deaux mixture you get a combined insecticide and fungicide which will viii kill the familiar potato bug as well as help to control the blight you can probably secure a spraying calendar front from your state experiment station it tells when and how to spray everything |
