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lived crjp like potato Potatoes are benefited, by high 

 manuring and one of the following manures is recommended 



for use : 



maunds per acre 

 ... 6 \applie 

 with castor-cake (powdered) ... 18 / after planting. 



(i) Rouen cowdung ...... 4~ 



(i) Bone-super ... 6 \applied immediately 



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with ashes or lime .. ... 15 \ applied after 



and castor-cake ... ... 15 / planting. 



(3) 'Rotten cowdung ... ... 600 ") applied before 



with bone-super ... ... 6j planting, 



U) Casto,ca k e ...... 



(5) Apatite-super 5 maunds and Saltpetre 2\ maunds per acre, both 

 applied immediately after planting. 



505. Whether the plants all come out within a fortnight 

 or not, the first watering should take place within ten days to 

 a fortnight after planting, unless a good shower of rain makes 

 this watering superfluous. The tardy sprouts will come up 

 after the watering. If seed-potatoes are kept in-doors under 

 a, heap of moist straw for a week or ten days before planting, 

 the sprouting will be quicker and more even after planting, 

 Instead of flooding the field or running the water along the 

 channels in which the seed potatoes are imbedded it is best 

 to distribute the water from the channel by means of an irri* 

 gation spoon or thali. This prevents caking of the soil. But 

 if the water is run along the channels in which the potatoes are 

 imbedded, hoeing should be done within a week after the 

 irrigation to allow the sprouts to come up without resistance, 

 The first earthing up with kodalis should take place when the 

 plants are 6" to 9" high. Then should fallow two waterings 

 at the interval of a fortnight and then the second earthing. 

 If the soil looks dry, irrigation should take place before and 

 after the two earthings at shorter intervals, say, once in 10 

 days, 3 to 6 irrigations are necessary, according to the 



