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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 
