obes apart cad the Bits from nine to twelve inches aback in 
e row. A ton of tubers will plant an acre. The plants grow 
igorously, and a dozen tubers, more or less, form in each hill; 
vi 
: the seed tuber grows in size, and, unlike the seed potato, at the 
end of the season it is as good as any taken in the hill, only it is 
larger. The tubers are planted and harvested as potatoes are 
planted and harvested. 
_ The man who grows this crop can do so with many advant- 
ages in his favor. He takes care of his crop during the fall, win-. 
ter and spring months, using such irrigation as may be necessary 
‘ desirable, and when the hot summer months come he is 
take the summer easy with no farm cares to worry him. In 
the Su patents October he can harvest his crop and plant again, 
It would be strange if this were not so. The tubers will 
bly i increase in size, the yield per acre will probably i increase 
