22 GARDEN PROFITS 



Particularly is this the case with seed you, are able 

 to save from one season's garden for the next. If 

 you have an especially delicious variety of corn, 

 and want to be sure of the same thing next year, 

 pick out a hill, and let the ears mature, that is, 

 become hard and flinty. But donH choose a measly, 

 weak little hill from which you "don't want the 

 ears anyway," and on which they are short, irregular 

 only partly filled out. Choose the best hill you can 

 find, and from it the finest pair of ears — large and 

 full, covered with fat kernels all the way to the tip, 

 and right up to the butt. 



THE "best" potato, AND HOW TO OBTAIN IT 



Similarly with potatoes. Save your ideal of 

 potatoes for seed — or as near as you can get to it. 

 It may cut you down a meal or so this year, but you 

 will get that one back, and a good many extra ones 

 besides, next season. If you are raising your own 

 potatoes, go further than just a good tuber — 

 choose the best, most productive hills for the seed 

 supply. That is, the hills which give you the 

 largest number of the best potatoes. I don't mean, 

 as so many misinterpret it, the hill that gives you 

 two whopping big fellows — over a pound apiece — 

 and nothing else; nor the one with fifteen or twenty 

 little spudlets an inch in diameter — very pretty 

 to look at, but which have to be boiled (and eaten 

 usually) with the jackets on. The "best hill" 

 yields several — perhaps six, possibly ten — smooth, 

 medium-sized tubers, the kind that boil evenly 



