114 Potatoes for Seed. 



The above yield was obtained from rows 1 rods long and 

 : 3 feet between the hills each way (measured, not guessed at.) 

 "The quality numbered according to size, No. 7, decidedly the 

 "best, and No. 2 had but few large enough to cook. 



T "have for seven years assorted my potatoes at the time 

 of digging, and fed the small ones to my hogs, and then 

 in the spring I again select a few bushels of the largest, and 

 best-shaped ones, and plant by themselves and save my seed 

 for the next year from the product of those selected, and m 

 no event planting a potatoe that the women had left as too 

 small to cook. The above, I think, will sufficiently account 

 for the good yield and quality of No. 8. I do not believe, 

 with Solon Robinson, that whole potatoes are better than cut 

 ones. If any person would give me the seed if I would plant 

 whole pink eye potatoes, I would not take it, preferring to 

 use a half one of my own raising. I have just received an 

 order for 40 bushels of pink eye potatoes for seed, from a gen- 

 tleman in this county, to whom I sold the same quantity last 

 spring, in which he says, " the potatoes I had of you last 

 spring, were planted according to your direction on four acres 

 of ground, and I have harvested over 1200 bushels the finest 

 I ever saw, and I prefer purchasing seed of you to planting 

 those raised on my own ground." By persevering in the 

 above practice of saving seed we have increased the size of 

 our pink eye potatoes one third, and the yield has nearly 

 * doubled. 



I remain, yours, &c., 



S. PORTER RHODES. 



:Skaneateles, Feb. 18, 1839, 



[From the Maine Farmer.] 



MR. HOLMES, Sir, I propose giving the result of experi- 

 ments which I made the past season on seeding the potatoes. 



