22 The: Colorado Experiment Station. 
of the trees to mature well before winter; and early potatoes are 
one of the best crops that can be grown in an orchard. 
Varieties of Early Potatoes. —The Ohio, White and Pink, leads 
all others of the United States in quantity and quality among truly 
early sorts. The Irish Cobbler is next and has spread from Maine 
west and south because it is a handsome white potato, free from 
the knots and cracks that disfigure the Ohio. It is nowhere (we 
have inquired and tested widely), good eating, except in our best 
mountain regions, where all potatoes are good. In Wisconsin, 
Kentucky, Nebraska, and on our own dry lands, it is inclined to be 
coarse grained, hard, and yellow fleshed. The Bliss Triumph, of 
which we have a white as well as a red sort, is the leading first 
Potatoes in a Young Orchard 
early of the south and is among our best earlies. The Russett and 
later the Downing, come ahead of maincrop and late sorts. 
No First-Class Early potato exists. The White Ohio, with its 
fine appearance and perfect quality, would fill the bill, if it did not 
run to knots and cracks. The Cobbler would be everything de¬ 
sirable if it were good eating, and the same may be said of the 
White Bliss. We are striving to combine the desirable qualities in 
one potato. It is a long, difficult and uncertain task in which we 
are greatly interested. 
SEED AND ITS TREATMENT. 
Type and Source of Seed are as important as variety. Success 
also hinges upon such care of the seed as shall keep it in vigorous 
condition till put into the ground. A big yield of tubers must not 
