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Again, this heel eye is usually a weak one. It often makes 

 a weak plant. It is usually safer not to count this eye, but 

 cut above the next one. Say you cut about as shown by the 

 line on the lower right-hand side, but continuing cut right 



FIG. 1 HOW TO CUT TO ONE 



across the tuber. Then you go on and cut the next piece 

 with an eye on it, turning the potato as you work, and let- 

 ting your knife run with about the slant shown by the side 

 lines, taking care to get pieces about all of a size. I am 



