SAN JOSE SCALE LAW. 117 



Sec. 10. All expenses incurred under the provisions of this act, 

 not otherwise provided for, shall be paid out of the general fund of 

 the state, and the State Auditor shall draw his warrant for the same, 

 and for this purpose the sum of twenty-five hundred ($2,500) dollars, 

 or so much as may be necessary, is hereby annually appropriated. 



Sec. 11. All prosecutions or suits under this act shall be made in 

 the name of the State of Minnesota. 



Sec. 12. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after 

 June 1, 1897. 



HASTENING MATURITY IN POTATOES. 



AN EXTKACT from THE R. I. EXPERIMENT BULLETIN, NO. 36. 



[The results would seem to indicate the profitableness of this method, to say 

 nothing of the advantage to the grower of marketing the crop as ''early" pota- 

 toes.— SECY.1 



" Budding ia a modification of the method in common use in the 

 island of Jersey and in England. The seed tubers for this method 

 of hastening the maturity of the crop when ready for planting ap- 

 pear as represented in the cut. The requisites necessary for bud- 

 ding seed tubers are a moderately warm, light place in a room 

 or basement where the temperature is reasonably uniform, never 

 reaching the freezing point, and sufficient space so that the seed 

 tubers can be exposed in single layers for from four to six weeks to 

 the influence of moderate heat and a fair amount of light. 



"The most desirable seed tubers for budding are those about the 

 size of hen's eggs, sound and not mutilated in digging. They maj' 

 be reserved for the purpose when digging the previous crop, and if 

 allowed to become " greened" by exposure to sunlight so much the 

 better, or they may be selected from the bin at any time. During 

 stormy days or at any convenient time during the winter, these seed 

 tubers can be placed in the trays and then stacked up anywhere in 

 the cellar secure from rats and frost until wanted. The traj"- to 

 be filled is placed upon a table or bench and one end elevated 

 about a foot by placing a box or measure under it. Then beginning 

 at the lower side, the potatoes selected as above are packed into the 

 rack stern end dotrn, as closelj^ as possible, one layer deep. Tubers 

 cut of pierced by the tines of a potato digger or fork should not be 

 tised, as they are likelj' to produce sickly or inferior buds. 



"About six or eight weeks before planting time the rack, should be 

 placed in a warm and light place where there is no danger of frost 

 or damage from rats or mice, and the trays placed in the rack. If 

 the temperature is moderate, 60° to 75°, and a fair amount of light 

 reaches all parts of each tray, no further attention is necessary. They 

 do not require watering. After a few days tiny white points will be 

 seen at the "eyes" of the tubers, and a few days later it will be 

 noticed that one and often two buds on each tuber will have made 

 more growth than the others. These buds are far different from the 

 white, watery "sprouts" of potatoes kept in a dark cellar. They are 

 thick, firm and tough. If conditions are right, at the end of six 

 ■weeks they will be from half an inch to an inch in length and one- 



