ON PLANTING CUT AND UNCUT POTATOES 
FOR SEED. 
Aw important point which potatoe growers have taken for 
experiment is the difference in produce where whole tubers 
and cut sets are employed. There is a great difference of 
opinion on this subject. 
A good many farmers are in favor of using whole tubers. 
One cultivator says: “I always use whole potatoes, which 
tnsures a tolerable crop in all seasons, preventing dry rot in 
hot weather, and rottenness im wet weather, which cut pota- 
toes are so liable to.” A Leicestershire farmer says, that after 
many years experience he has discontinued planting cut sets, 
and substitutes whole tubers, selecting small ones, but not the 
smallest; he adds, that adopting this rule, he has had an 
excellent crop this year, and the tubers are extraordinarily 
large. A farmer near Birmingham finds his cut sets a iotal 
failure, and another gives a decided preference for whole 
potatoes, the poor people having lost almost all their cut sets, 
whue their whole potatoes stood the long drought. 
[From the Genessee Faimer ] 
Mr. Tucker, —I planted last spring, three acres of pota- 
toes. One half of the ground was ploughed in the fall of 
