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Early Ohio. — The most popular early kind and a good sort 

 for the general crop, productive and very early. 



Burbank, or Burbank's Seedling, is an excellent late kind 

 and a good keeper, but seems to be running out in some sections. 

 It cooks a little soggy until winter, when it is of excellent table 

 quality. Form long and '^ound. 



Rural New Yorker No. 2. — Form flat, roundish oblong, very 

 productive. Quality a little inferior and sometimes inclined to 

 be hollow. Very popular in some sections. It is undoubtedly 

 much influenced by the soil in which it grows. 



Early Rose is the progenitor of most of our good kinds. It 

 was introduced into cultivation about 1868 and is still productive 

 in the best potato districts of this section but is not now adapted 

 to general use. 



Other varieties of special merit of the early kinds are Early 

 Acme; of medium and late kinds' are American Wonder and 

 White Proliflc. 



Note on Propagation. — New varieties of potatoes are gener- 

 ally high in price, and it is desirable to increase them rapidly. 

 This may be done as follows: Place the tubers in rich soil in 

 boxes or in pots, without cutting them, in a warm, light room, 

 hotbed or greenhouse. As soon as the sprouts are nicely fur- 

 nished with roots, break them off at the surface of the potato 

 below the roots and plant separately in pots. New sprouts will 

 start from the eyes ap-ain, and the process may be repeated until 

 the tuber is exhausted. By another way, the tubers are cut up 

 and planted in good rich loam. As soon as the shoots are six 

 inches or more high, about three inches is cut off the top of each. 

 These pieces are put in moist sand, watered frequently and al- 

 lowed all the sunlight they will stand without wilting and treat- 

 ed the same as it is common to treat cuttings of house plants. 

 In two or three weeks they will be rooted and may be potted in 

 rich soil. These shoots may again be cut when nicely started, 

 and so on. The plants thus grown are planted out when the 

 weather is settled in the spring. For best success with these 

 methods of propagation, the work should begin in the late winter 

 or very early spring. 



Insects. — There are but few insects that do serious injury to 



