ON PLANTING CUT AND UNCUT POTATOES 

 FOR SEED. 



AN important point which potatoe growers have taken for - 

 experiment is the difference in produce where whole tubers 

 and cut sets are employed. There is a great difference of 

 opinion on this subject. 



A good many farmers are in favor of using whole tubers. 

 One cultivator says : " I always use whole potatoes, which 

 insures a tolerable crop in all seasons, preventing dry rot in 

 hot weather, and rottenness in wet weather, which cut pota- 

 toes are so liable to." A Leicestershire farmer says, that after 

 many years experience he has discontinued planting cut sets, 

 and substitutes whole tubers, selecting small ones, but not the 

 smallest; he adds, that adopting this rule, he has had an 

 excellent crop this year, and the tubers are extraordinarily 

 large. A farmer near Birmingham finds his cut sets a total 

 failure, and another gives a decided preference for whole 

 potatoes, the poor people having lost almost all their cut sets, 

 while their whole potatoes stood the long drought. 



[From the Genessee Fanner.] 



MR. TUCKER, I planted last spring, three acres of pota- 

 toes. One half of the ground was ploughed in the fall of 



