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will bring them out in good shape in the spring either for seed or 
market. They want to be kept from draughts of air which shrivel 
them up, but not air tight which is apt to make them heat, mould 
and decay. 
HOW TO SAVE A CROP FROM 
drought. 
While we don’t believe it would be practicable where potatoes are 
raised on a large scale, yet if you have a valuable small patch of 
potatoes which are promising much just as overtaken by drought 
they can probably be saved by mulching with that litter which is 
cheapest to apply. Poor hay, straw, or such material that can be 
raked off if desired, will do. Some potato growers have in years 
past, if they do not now, raised their whole crop in this way, as will 
be seen in another divisiou of this pamphlet. 
For extensive potato growers the following is about all that can be 
done profitably. Cultivate thorough and often. This method of 
action in drought is exactly the reverse of the old idea, but its cor- 
rectness was investigated and substantiated by Hon. Levi Stock- 
bridge of Amherst, Mass., while he was Professor in the Mass. Ag- 
ricultural College, by a series of extensive and thorough experi- 
ments. 
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