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What varieties do you raise? 



Answer. — It bas come closer to tlie question of form or shape, 

 round potatoes being most in demand and at better prices. My 

 preference is Rural New Yorker No. 2, Carman No. 3 and Sir 

 Walter Kaleigh. They all belong to the same family and are 

 known as round potatoes. 



Do you roll tlie sod after plowing it? 



Answer. — Yes, we use a heavy roller — one weighing 1,750 

 pounds — and let it lap one-half. This packs the furrows hard. 

 After this we harrow deeply and make the seed bed fine. We 

 plow the clover sod sometimes as deep as ten inches; this when 

 the field has been worked down deeply and well manured. If it 

 has not, we do not plow so deeply. 



Can blight on potatoes be prevented by spraying? What do you use? 



Mr. Litchard. — It may be prevented, but then there is no 

 cure. Spraying has been practiced through the State with the 

 Bordeaux mixture. Some make two applications; some three. 

 Scab is another disease and is a soil germ. The best way is not 

 to plant seed that has any scab on it. Don't put any scabby 

 potatoes in the cellar nor plant them on land where scabby pota- 

 toes grew the year before. 



Mr. Cook. — Soak the seed potatoes in a solution made by dis- 

 solving two ounces of corrosive sublimate in fifty gallons of 

 water. Leave them in the solution two hours. 



Which is better, hill up or use level culture with potatoes? 



Answer. — It will depend somewhat on the soil. As a rule 

 nearly level culture is best. 



When one has land that is adapted to both wheat and potatoes, which 

 will be the better money crop? 



Answer. — Wheat will take the most fertility from the land. 

 One hundred bushels will remove |29.50 worth of it; potatoes, 

 $5.20. The man who knows how to grow potatoes will get the 

 most money from potatoes. 



