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may prove the best; but we have succeeded better 

 by a moderate hilling up. This seems to keep 

 the land light and friable. Make the cultivator 

 and shovel-plough do all the hilling, and most 

 of the hoeing. For this purpose, put the rows 

 three feet apart. Drop the seed ten or twelve 

 inches apart in the row; cut to one eye, around 

 which leave a good portion of the substance of 

 the tuber, so that the young growths may have 

 plenty of nourishment until the roots get well 

 established. 



Two or three times, before the crop comes up, 

 a smoothing harrow should be run over the piece, 

 destroying the young weeds as soon as they start. 

 The Colorado beetles, or potato bugs, formerly 

 so much dreaded, are now disposed of very easily 

 by the use of Slug Shot or Paris green; either is 

 death to the bugs. 



The selection and cutting of seed are important 

 points. We recommend medium-sized tubers, 

 cut to one eye. The tuber itself is not a seed, 

 but merely an enlargement of the underground 

 stem, and in planting tubers, either entire or cut, 

 we are putting in, not seeds, but slips or cuttings, 

 in which size is not essential; but probably it is 



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