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manured, and reduced to a fine friable state. The 

 ordinary practices of potato-culture will then suffice to 

 give good results. The development of stocks has 

 been furthered by dividing the stems. This method is 

 best suited to those varieties which carry strong 

 haulms or stalks. Each shoot thrown out by the tuber 

 is in reality a plant, and if a set containing several eyes 

 is planted, a number of plants are set growing. These, 

 if undivided, grow as one plant ; but if carefully divided, 

 so as to carry with each stem a small portion of root, 

 will, if transplanted, become separate plants. To reap 

 full advantage from the transplanting the plants should 

 be put into a well-prepared seed bed. The yield from 

 these divided plants is far in excess of that from the 

 plants when grown collectively as one plant. 



