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sirable to plant the potato fresh cut, rather than a day or 

 two after they ha^-e been cut. 



No specific rule can be given for cutting potatoes. 

 Large potatoes, however, are iisually cut with one eye, and 

 small ones contain several eyes. 



Soil. 



It is important in planting this crop that the proper 

 kind of soil should be selected. By all means a sufficient 

 amount of moisture should be had. Potatoes are partial 

 to damp, heavy soils, with an abundance of vegetable mat- 

 ter and moisture, and without irrigation this class of soil 

 must be had. However, where irrigation is used, what 

 we call high land, may be used successfully in planting 

 potatoes, but never a light, sandy soil. If low land is 

 used and is not properly -dried or drained, the land should 

 be plowed into beds before the planting is done. If the 

 land is to be bedded, fertilizer should be sown broadoa«t 

 at the rate of fifteen hundred (1,500) pounds per aci'e, 

 and then plowed into beds with turning plow. Then open 

 a light furrow on top with a scooter plow and drop the 

 potatoes about fifteen inches apart, making the rows three 

 (3) feet wide; then cover lightly with hoe, not over one 

 inch deep. Where irrigation is used on higher land, the 

 ground should be well broken and laid off in rows two and 

 one-half (2%) feet apart with scooter plow; then sow 

 in the furrow, fifteen to two thousand pounds of good" 

 commercial fertilizer. When planting is to be done run 

 in these furrows again with eight-inch shovel plow. This 

 throws most of the fertilizer out of the furrow, but covers 

 it at the same time. Then drop the potato about the same 



