VEGETABLES RAISED FOR MARKET 



support to the stalks and also to develop the side- 

 shoots. 



For digging the crop, there is at present no more 

 satisfactory implement provided than the digging- 

 fork or the potato-hook. There are, to be sure, 

 already several different implements designed and 

 constructed, and to some extent, perhaps, put 

 to use for employing the labour of horses in loosen- 

 ing and lifting the tubers from the soil. But the 

 best of them the very latest as well as the earlier 

 ones have attained but a very moderate degree 

 of success, even when working under fairly favour- 

 able conditions; and in stony or mucky soils will 

 not do the work. There is still a fortune in waiting 

 for the man who invents a completely successful 

 machine digger. 



Varieties are so numerous, and many are so 

 little distinct, that to mention even a quarter of 

 them would be confusing. The Early Rose has 

 an almost endless number of closely related kinds, 

 such as Early Sunrise, Early Gem, Chicago 

 Market, Early Vermont and others. Standard 

 favourites are the early and late varieties of 

 Beauty of Hebron, Green Mountain, Irish Cobbler, 

 Early Norwood, Bovee and Uncle Sam. 



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