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are heavy winds, and it is never grown there. An 

 adaptation of this information can be well ap- 

 plied in districts in western United States, on open 

 plateaus where there are strong winds during the 

 early growing season of June and July. 



The May Queen is one of the very best early 

 market sorts for the British markets. On June 

 first I saw one hundred acres that was a beautiful 

 sight because of the healthfulness, vigor and bright 

 green foliage of the plants. Mr. Wallace begins 

 to harvest early in July and the entire crop is 

 harvested during that month. 



Potatoes that go over a two and one fourth inch 

 mesh are shipped to market, those between two 

 and one fourth and one and one fourth are sold 

 for seed or kept as seed stocks. When the po- 

 tatoes are dug they are practically about one half 

 to three fourths grown. They are planted about 

 March 25th and will yield about eight tons when 

 harvested July 8th. When ripe and matured they 

 would make twelve tons over a one and one half 

 inch mesh. 



After being cured in long narrow pits, about 

 three feet wide and thatched with straw, they are 

 shipped to the seed houses for which they were 

 grown. 



He is very particular to keep seed true. The 

 same variety is grown year after year in the same 

 fields so that any potatoes that might winter over 

 and come up as volunteers the next year would 

 not mix with those planted in the spring following. 

 He is so careful and painstaking that each storage 

 house is labeled with the name of the variety and 

 no other is stored in it. 



Potatoes are harvested in July. They are dug 

 with forks and picked up by hand. If no disease 



