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3. Treat all seed with either formalin or corrosive sublimate just 

 before planting. 



4. Cut off a generous slice from the stem end of the tuber as the 

 seed is planted. 



5. Keep growing potatoes well covered ; leave no tubers on the ground 

 when dug, and sack, as soon as the tubers are dry after digging, in moth 

 proof sacks, this to protect against tuber moth. 



6. Only plant perfectly smooth seed w'hich will secure against eel- 

 worms. 



7. Always practice a long rotation six or eight years. 



8. Remember that potatoes respond generously to ample use of 

 fertilizers. 



If all of these points are observed, we shall secure a large production 

 which will be in demand at top prices — A. J. C. 



Consumption and Quality. — There is another reason which urges 

 better husbandry in our potato ciilture. It is for the interest of the 

 grower and no less for the general public that consumption of lliis valu- 

 able product be increased to the limit. All we need to stinuilate c(m- 

 sumption is to produce tubers of the best quality. First class potatoes 

 will sell themselves. This insures thrift to the grower in the increased 

 use of this healthful, appetizing food product. 



A page from the writer's experience for the past three years in his 

 own home will make this matter clear. We had practically ceased 

 eating potatoes as those secured in the market were almost invariably 

 soggy, ill-flavored, unwholesome and unappetizing. Lately we secured 

 a sack of potatoes from the far-famed Delta region of the San Joaquin 

 islands raised on new land from carefully selected healthy seed and 

 others from El Dorado County grown in the rich deep soils of the 

 mountain valleys nearly 3.000 feet above sea level by a very skillful 

 potato farmer. In a few weeks we have dipped deep down into these 

 sacks of beautiful russet Burbanks. They grace out table at nearly 

 every meal. Each potato when cooked is encircled witli a snow white 

 flour. They are indeed a thing of beauty, yet their beauty is no whit 

 superior to their flavor. Boiled or baked they are perfection. 



I feel warranted in saying that if only such potatoes were gro\\Ti and 

 marketed the consumption would be increased more than one hundred 

 per cent. For a time such potatoes would bring a big premium for 

 seed purposes and always for table use. California offers very superior 

 possibilities as to soil and climate for potato production. Let us match 

 these with care and intelligence, and we shall rival even Britain and 

 Germany both as to quantity and quality of our potatoes. — A. J. C. 



Potato Prize. — So important is it to the potato grower, the potato 

 industry of the State and to vW our people that we maintain a maximum 

 yield of potatoes of the best quality that a prize of .^100 is offered for the 

 best five acres of potatoes grown in California this Panama-Pacific Inter- 

 national Exposition year of 1915. The money available for this prize 

 is secured bj^ one of our leading potato growers. Arrangements will 

 be made for examination by an expert of the seed before planting, of 

 growing crops at least twice during the season and also to inspect and 

 weigh or measure at time of digging. Careful data as to history of the 

 soil, methods of planting, culture, irrigation, fertilization, care and 

 management from first to last must be preserved and handed in at the 



