114 Potatoes for Seed. 
The above yield was obtained from rows 14 rods Jong and 
3 feet between the hills each way (measured, not guessed at.) 
The quality numbered according to size, No. 7, decidedly the 
best, and No. 2 had but few large enough to cook. 
I have for seven years assorted my potatoes at the time 
‘of digging, and fed the small ones to my hogs, and then 
in the spring I again select a few bushels of the largest, and 
best-shaped ones, and plant by themselves and save my seed 
for the next year from the product of those selected, and in 
no event planting a potatoe that the women had left as too 
small to cook. The above, I think, will sufficiently account 
for the good yield and quality of No. 8. I do not believe, 
with Solon Robinson, that whole potatoes are better than cut 
ones. If any person would give me the seed if I would plant 
whole pink eye potatoes, I would not take it, preferring to 
use a half one of my own raising. I have just received an 
order for 40 bushels of pink eye potatoes for seed, from a gen- 
tleman in this county, to whom I sold the same quantity last 
spring, in which he says, “the potatoes I had of you last 
spring, were planted according to your direction on four acres 
of ground, and I have harvested over 1200 bushels the finest 
TI ever saw, and I prefer purchasing seed of you to planting 
those raised on my own ground.” By persevering in the 
above practice of saving seed we have increased the size of 
our pink eye potatoes one third, and the yield has nearly 
doubled. 
T remain, yours, &c., 
S. Porter RHODES. 
Skaneateles, Feb. 18, 1839 
[From the Maine Farmer.] 
Mr. ITotu.s, — Sir, I propose giving the result of experi- 
ments which I made the past season on seeding the potatoés. 
