Show home flome grown seed make good crops best insurance inaura n ee for profitable yield of yams bams or sweet potatoes growing sweet potato plants at home Is the best insurance for a good crop for early potatoes the lie seed roots rol may be bedded six weeks week s before danger of frost la Is past A good general rule Is to bed potatoes t six weeks before plants are wanted minted for set setting if ng recommends B E B morrow exien extension slon horticulturist nt at the north carolina stole state college use disease free medium sized roots for the seed stock and about eight bushels of such seed Is required to set an acre efland of land from the first pulling it if it ts Is not desired to have all the slips at one time tour our bushels should produce enough for planting an acre best seed bed type mr air morrow says the kind of bod bed to use will depend on oil the time croo ti 19 to he 16 set and file acreage grown some kind of heated herf bed la Is needed for an early crop the type best suited suite to tile average farm Is the manure heated hot hoil heel bed fresh stable manure plied piled and replied until it Is heating uniformly aud and then packed into it pit to n depth depla of 12 inches will give sum dent clen t heat cover this with three or four indies inches of sand or sandy loam soil and bed the roots on this to prevent crowding of the file oil blips Ps I 1 the roots should be placed nearly one inch apart says mr bir A morrow forrow spindly plants will be secured when tile the potatoes are crowded too loo dose close together liberal Is necessary A plank frame and some kind of covering Is also needed about 12 square feet of spa space ce will be needed to io bed a bushel of average size potatoes disease free seed it Is important that the seed he be free from disease and this may le be guaranteed by treating the roots in a solution made of one ounce of bl chloride of mercury to eight gallons of water soak the potatoes in this for IS 15 minutes and allow to dry before covering in lie bed it Is not necessary to wash the potatoes after such treatment |