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en out a little with the shovel, so you can lay out the roots 

 well in every direction; then plant, pressing the soil down with 

 your foot; if it is in low, bottom land, 8 to lo inches is deep enough, 

 on upland, i 2 to 15 inches, ought to be planted; drive down some small 

 stick, about 18 inches long, to each plant; then cut all the plants back 

 to one eye or bud, even with the surface of the ground; then take your 

 plow and throw a furrow on each side ol the plants and cover some. 

 Next spring uncover them with your hand; be careful, don't use a hoe 

 you might injure the bud. Then you can plant two rows of potatoes, 

 the same time you 'are cultivating the potatoes as well as the vines. 

 They should be cultivated and tended, the weeds kept down for the first 

 two or three years, like a young orchard or corn.. You don't need to 

 tic them up on sticks if you don't want to; by allowing them to lay on 

 the ground the first season more vigorous canes will be obtained. In 

 the fall after the leaves are all off, cut back to two buds; cover 

 the short canes with some earth before the ground freezes. If any vines 

 have died, fill out again during the fall and winter, and get your post 

 and trellis ready. Put the wire up so it runs north and south — we have 

 more south wind in summer. In the spring remove the earth from the 

 vines-as soon as danger from frost is past-then cultivate the whole ground, 

 plowing between the rows from four to six inches deep, and carefully 

 hoeing around the vines; but don't work in them while wet. You can 

 plant one row of potatoes every season for five or six years, by manur- 

 ing it every year a little with some well rotten manure. The second sum- 

 mer a shoot is produced from each of the two buds left the previous fall; 

 tie them neatly to the post or trellis, and let them grow about four or five 

 feet, then pinch the leaders off; then they will throw out laterals'or arms. 

 In the fall cut the main stock back about three or four feet, and the 

 laterals back to the buds from the main stock. If you had two canes 

 from your vine, you can lay one down early in June, covering it with 

 mellow soil about two inches deep, leaving the ends of the lat- 

 erals out of the ground — such as Delawares, Cynthiana, Norton's 

 Virginia, and many others that do not grow from cuttings. If you have 

 tender varieties, take them from the trellis or wire and lay them 

 on the ground, and cover with straw, corn stalks, hay or earth in the 

 fall; it will pay you to keep them from freezing. The third sea- 

 son uncover and tie the canes to trellis, for which use soft string, such 

 as calico or golden willow ; tie them, and as young canes grow, 

 keep them tied, but in all cases take care against tying too tight, 

 as the free flow of sap may be obstructed. From each of the 

 buds let canes be ^rown during the season and each of these 



