TABLE OF CONTENTS." 



PACE. 



I nt.roductiou '. 7 



History 7 



Botanical Characters 8 



Production 10 



Production in Canada 12 



Chief Potato-growing Sections of British Columbia 13 



Uses of the Potato 14 



Quality in Potatoes 15 



dim-ate 16 



Soils 16 



notation 17 



Manures and Fertilizers 17 



Soil, Preparation of 18 



Seed 



Condition of Seed at Planting-time 19 



Greening Seed 20 



Selection of Seed 20 



Certified Seed 21 



Change of Seed 23 



Immature Seed 24 



Cutting Seed 24 



Care of Seed after Cut 26 



Size of Set to Plant 26 



The Number of Eyes 27 



Whole vs. Cut Seed- : 27 



Amount of Seed required per Acre 27 



Plan-ting 



Hill and Row Method 27 



Machine 'and Hand Planting 27 



Planting Potatoes under Sod 29 



Time to Plant 21) 



Depts of Planting 30 



Cultural Methods after Planting 30 



Hilling Potatoes 31 



Irrigation 31 



Harvesting 32 



Picking, Sorting, and Grading 34 



Storage 



Storage of Seed-potatoes 34 



Storage of the General Crop 35 



Construction of Storage-houses 35 



Types of Storage-places 35 



Storage-pit 35 



Shrinkage in Storage 37 



Marketing 37 



I Msposal of Cull Potatoes 37 



Pn-parathm of Cars for shipping Potatoes 37 



The Cost of growing Potatoes 40 



Field-crop Competitions 42 



Boys' and Girls' Competitions ; 43 



