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your market's requirements. Among the best early 

 varieties I might mention : Early Rose, Early Michi- 

 gan, Early Ohio, Early Norther, Early Bovee, Early 

 White Ohio, etc. Among the best late or main-crop 

 varieties, are : Rural New-Yorker, Carman No. 3, 

 Sir Walter Raleigh, Great Divide, Vermont Gold 

 Coin, Nebraska, Alammoth Pearl, Rose Seedling, 

 Burbank, Uncle Sam, State of IMaine, etc. 



In the North early potatoes, like peas, are 

 planted in March or April as soon as the ground 

 becomes dry enough (tu- 

 bers will rot if planted in 

 too wet a soil). Fall plow- 

 ing is, of course, a help 

 to early planting; so is 

 tile draining. The plant is 

 sensitive to frost, but 

 usually the sprouts take so 

 long a time to get above 

 ground that frost danger 

 is mostly over before they 

 appear ; at a critical time, 

 however, 'tis possible, I find, to plow or hoe a little 

 soil on to the tender sprouts and thus outwit Jack 

 Frost. Main or late crop potatoes are planted in the 

 North any time between about May loth and June 

 1st. In Georgia early potatoes are planted about 

 February ist, I am told. 



''Second-crop potatoes": In some of the south- 

 ern states a double cropping system is practised, the 

 second crop being grown the same season from seed 

 produced by the first crop. For full particulars 

 about this method, write to the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, and ask 

 for free Farmers' Bulletin No. 35. 



A MACHINE POTATO-PLANTER 

 OPENS THE FURROWS, PLANTS 

 THE SEED, COVERS IT AND 

 MARKS THE NEXT ROW 



