POTATOES 165 



frost is out of the ground, ripening a good crop- 

 several weeks before the main winter crop is ready. 





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Planting. — • In planning for the early potatoes, 

 choose the best and warmest part of the plot reserved 

 for this vegetable, and use a little more fertilizer 

 than is given the regular crop, to insure a quick start 

 and steady growth. 



Raising Extra Early Potatoes^ — Potatoes are 

 usually costly until early fall. It is, therefore, 

 worth while to get some started extra early, so that 

 they will be ready for digging in August, a fortnight 

 before the regular early crop is ready. To do this, 

 start fifty or sixty pieces of seed, about enough for 

 a fifty-foot row, in the house. Start them about 

 two weeks before it is safe to put potatoes in the 

 ground. 



Take a box about one foot wide by two feet long, 

 which fits well into a sunny window. Line it with 

 newspaper, to keep dirt from sifting through the 

 cracks. - The box should not be water-tight. Put • 



