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POTATOES AND POTATO CULTURE 



saving the product of such hills as yield the greatest weight of 

 smooth, marketable tubers, or buy from a reliable grower whom 

 we know to be selecting his seed in a like manner. 



It is a false idea of economy to save a few dollars per acre by 

 using cheap seed, and thereby ruin your chances of success at 

 the start. The fact that many growers are j)lanting small and 

 indifferent seed, year after year, largely accounts for the low 

 average yield reported, and also for the deterioration of most 

 varieties after eight or ten years in the hands of the average 

 grower. . 



Small to medium tubers grown from seed selected as already 

 mentioned, that have not lost their vitality by sprouting, will 

 generally produce a more satisfactory crop than larger seed of 

 the same variety grown from a jDoor strain of tubers that have 

 been weakened by excessive sprouting. 



Fig. 8.— Dewey Rose, Potato No. 136. 



Varieties. (For description and yield of varieties, see Experi- 

 ments VIII and IX of this Bulletin. ) 



As our New England markets demand a round or oblong 

 white potato, we recommend for main croi^ the planting of such 

 varieties as the Green Mountain and Delaware, or varieties that 

 closely resemble them. 



As seedsmen are each year introducing and selling at fabu- 

 lous prices new and untried varieties, the most of which are 

 soon dropped from their catalogues and forgotten, we advise the 

 New Hampshire growers to dej^end on standard sorts that have 



