1390 The Vegetable Industry in ]STew York State 



3. Strong, healthy seed, in well-tilled soil, with an abundance 

 of available plant food of the proper kind, promotes a vigor of 

 both top and tubers, which will resist disease much better than a 

 weak plant. 



4. To insure the greatest development of starch the leaf sur- 

 face must be preserved until the potato has completed its life cycle. 



Surely, then, a line of procedure most in harmony with the laws 

 of nature governing the potato plant will be most likely to insure 

 a crop. 



