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very good potatoes, I mean the kind that you all 

 like, and they have no black spots in the middle of 

 them, and are not all rough and scratchy on the out- 

 side, plant them in your garden. If you do not 

 think the potatoes you are using are good ones, then 

 it is best to buy some seed as we call it, although it 

 really is not seed at all. 



Sweet Potatoes love a sandy soil and lots of sun- 

 shine, because they grow a great many days longer 

 than white potatoes before they are ready for use. 

 We do not plant sweet potatoes the way we do 

 white potatoes, although the plants do come from 

 the eyes in the same way. We put the potato in 

 sand in a warm place where it is light and it will 

 very quickly send up shoots and these shoots have a 

 lot of roots attached to them. We break these 

 shoots off, root and all, and plant them in the 

 garden just as we would set out any other plant. 

 If you live where you can start your own sweet 

 potato plants, use any medium sized, smooth, firm 

 potato that you can easily get. If you cannot grow 

 the plants they can be purchased from most any 

 seedsman. 



The following are good varieties of the vegetables 

 we have talked about and will help you choose. I 



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