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conditions) latitude, if earliness is sought; but, generally speaking, 

 potatoes bred for a district do better there than elsewhere. Few Euro- 

 pean varieties are worth growing in America, and any introduction 

 requires acclimatization and selection." 



Bailey, of Cornell University, in Cornell Bulletin 25, page 175, 

 lodges a criticism against the comparison of seed changed from one 

 district to another. He believes the variation in productiveness to be 

 due much more to the stock itself — how the plants have been grown and 



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handled in previous years — than to any influence of soil or latitude. 

 He further points out the ohvious fact that it would be impossible to 

 procure seed stock from different growers which would be sufficiently 

 uniform for comparative experimentation. 



Gerard, who had probably a wider experience than almost any other 

 investigator on the subject of potato-culture, in his Recherches sur la 

 Culture de la Pomme de Terrc, states : — " It is an opinion quite broadly 

 held that varieties of potatoes cultivated in the same region are certain 



