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place before planting, so they may sprout. The early varieties are preferable for this time of 
planting. 
IT have been handling several thousand barrels of potatoes every season for planting, and 
make Seed Potatoes a specialty. The potatoes I sell are Eastern grown, which, as every one 
interested in potato culture knows, are superior and preferable to Western grown. 
T have tried and introduced all new kinds here; but of late so many have come out that it 
is almost impossible to keep up with them. New varieties of potatoes come out with fancy 
prices, but these prices for new potatoes do not pay here, as we can keep none over for seed, 
and any person raising for the market would not realize a cent more for a new fancy variety 
per barrel, than for a barrel of good Peerless or Early Rose. TEarliness is no consideration, as 
we plant from December to end of March. Somebody may plant Early Rose in December and 
another in February, and those planted in February come to the market first; it depends 
entirely upon the season. If late frosts set in, early planted potatoes will be cut down, and 
those just coming out of the ground will not be hurt. 
Rural New Yorker No 2. 
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