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whole tubers planted two or three feet apart in the rows, and the 
single eyes eight to twelve inches apart, I think the single eye patch 
would make a creditable showing with the whole tuber patch, with 
very much lighter seeding at that. 
The fact seem to be that whole tubers give a large total yield with 
a large per cent, of small potatoes, while with one or two eye cut- 
tings the total yield may not. be as great, but the yield of marketable 
potatoes is likely to be greater. One of the leading seed potato 
growers of the country plants only single eye cuttings. My entire 
crop last season was from single eve cuttings and got about fifteen 
bushels from a single half peck of seed of one variety. My average 
yield was between three and four hundred bushels per acre. Yet we 
can be sure of this fact from the tests of the Stations that the larger 
the seed piece attached to the eye the better plant it will make. 
In the cultivation of the crop the great thing is to keep down the 
weeds and keep the soil mellow. There are many modern devices 
for cultivating, each probably with some particular merit, and from 
the large list to pick from, all of us ought to be pretty well satisfied. 
For small patches it is more convenient to apply paris green mixed 
with plaster through sieves made especially for the purpose, at the 
rate of from 50 to 100 bis. of plaster to a pound of the green, if it is 
pure, which ought to cover thoroughly a half acre to an acre of po- 
tatoes according to heaviness of seeding and size of tops. For a 
large field it is cheapest to drive through the field with a sprinkling- 
cart, which keeps Stirling the water all the time to prevent the poi- 
son from sinking to the bottom, as it is insoluble in water, and 
sprinkles several rows at a time and more effectually than plaster 
can do it if the flow of water is gauged correctly. About a teaspoon- 
fill of Paris green to a gallon of water. 
As the leaves of the potato plant are as important to the develop- 
ment of the tuber as the lungs of a bov are to his growth, it is of the 
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