CHAPTER XIV. 
TUBER CROPS. 
POTATOES. 
HEAVY yield of potatoes may be simply 
a matter of moisture and frequent tillage. 
The potato likes Scotland* and Nova 
Scotia because it thrives best in deep, cool, moist 
soil, finely pulverized and containing much pot- 
ash. Knowing the conditions under which any 
crop grows well, is equivalent to growing a big 
crop, to the careful farmer, so if you want some 
potatoes, you may as well get the most possible. 
The average farmer raises 75 bushels to the acre, 
but it pays to be above the average. You ought 
to beashamed to growless than 200 or 300 bushels 
even taking 75 as a starting point, for, when you 
consider that by the exercise of brains and labor, 
all the way from 600 to 1300 bushels per acre 
have been produced, you may well decide to 
prove what you can do. You have a chance to 
beat the record. 
Potatoes should be planted deep and early. 
If they are planted too near the surface they 
will ripen before they are fully grown or maybe 
get sun-burned and unfit for eating. Choose 
*Treland is not really the land of the ‘‘praties’’; the average 
yield of Great Britain is higher than of Ireland. 
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