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will have. If each half has more than 15 

 tubers plant them all. If you use 6-ounce 

 potatoes for seed, plant the whole mother in 

 each hill. Cover the seed with two furrows of 

 the turning plow. 



If the ground has been properly prepared, 

 cultivated and irrigated during drought, prac- 

 tically every one of these tubers will grow to a 

 uniform-sized potato, and 75 to 80 of them will 

 make a bushel. Thus 70 rows with 140 double 

 hills to each row, every hill containing 25 

 matured potatoes will, he says, give 245,000 

 potatoes, which at 80 to the bushel means 

 3060 bushels; if 30 potatoes to each hill, there 

 will be 294,000 or 3675 bushels. 



If a second crop is desired, have the mother 

 potatoes ready when the first crop has been 

 marketed and the ground once more thoroughly 

 fertilized. Of course, whether it is first or second 

 crop, the best tillage is none too good. Anything 

 that stops the growth of the tuber at any stage, 

 is fatal to your hopes of a uniform-sized crop, 

 so be sure that there is no danger from drought. 



In the case of the second crop, do not allow 

 the potatoes to remain in the ground until 

 touched by frost. This means pretty close 

 watching, as the ripening of the potato is 

 largely a matter of the last three weeks of 



