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GARDEN STEPS 



Potato Seed 



How to Choose Seed. — For the home garden 

 the Early Rose and the Delaware make an excellent 

 combination, but there are other good potatoes 

 which may do well in your locality. Find out who 

 has a reputation for big crops of potatoes near you. 

 Ask him what he plants, and where he gets his seed. 

 His advice may be well worth following. 



Experiments carefully completed in the East 

 show that potatoes grown from seed bought in north- 

 ern localities yield almost double the crop produced 

 by seed grown a few hundred miles farther south. 

 Yet many farmers still strive to save money by using 

 their own seed, and wonder 

 why their crops are not better. 

 Formalin Treatment for Po- 

 tatoes. — Scale is found in 

 many parts of the countr}'. 

 It forms on the skin of the 

 tubers, making them rough 

 and ugly. It also reduces the 

 vitaHty of the plant. By 

 washing the seed in a solution 

 of formalin one can protect 

 them from this disease. Powdered sulphur is also 

 used, but the formalin treatment is simple and more 

 sure. . 

 Any clean receptacle which will hold water enough 



Potato Scab 



