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Selecting Seed Potatoes 
Are large potatoes better for seed than 
medium size? I have one Irish Cobbler 
that weighs 2 lbs. G. p. H. 
Massachusetts. 
It depends on the vine and the hill 
from which the potato was produced. 
Just because a potato is large or good 
sized, it does not follow that it would 
produce the same kind of tubers. That 
would be determined more by the vine 
and the yield of the hill. A hill where 
there was one large potato and a good 
many small ones would probably re¬ 
produce itself if its tubers were used for 
seed, or a hill where there were good- 
sized potatoes would produce through 
its tubers much the same thing. Anyone 
can go to a bin of potatoes and pick out 
a large tuber in the hope of improving 
his crop. lie must go back to the hill 
itself in order to know what lie is doing. 
It would be much the same as in a case 
of a cow or hen; the individual might 
be an excellent one, but no one could 
be sure of the quality of the offspring 
without knowing where the cow came 
from, that is, something of heritage or 
pedigree. The people who produce pedi¬ 
gree potatoes and seek to improve the 
strain, select their seed in the field at 
digging time. They judge the size and 
vigor of the vine and estimate the yield 
and quality of the hill at digging, and 
they select for seed only those hills which 
have strong, healthy vines, and which 
produce a fair number of good-sized po¬ 
tatoes. Just because a potato is a large 
size is no evidence that it will make good 
seed. In fact, some of the abnormal 
specimens have given us the poorest 
kinds of crop. 
Raising Potatoes from 
Seed Balls 
I want to. find out how to care for po¬ 
tato seed balls, when to dig such plants 
as those that have them, and whether 
I would better take seeds out of ball and 
mark variety producing it. Do I plant 
the same as onion, or how get my new 
seed? Where can I get an expert to see 
the product and tell what kind or sea¬ 
son it ripens so I can name and sell 
same. H. R. o. 
Your best plan would be to write the 
Department of Agriculture at Washing¬ 
ton and ask for a bulletin on seedling po¬ 
tatoes by Wm. Stuart. This will give 
you the details so that they will be easily 
understood. Simply stated the balls on 
certain potato vines contain the seeds 
from which new varieties are obtained. 
When fully ripened these balls are taken 
off and permitted to dry. The seeds are 
washed out of the pulp, fully dried and 
put in some safe, dry place until Spring. 
They may be put in packages marked 
with the name of the variety which pro¬ 
duced them. In the Spring the seeds 
may be started in pots or flats and when 
the plants are of fair size transplanted 
out doors and cultivated like other po¬ 
tato plants. They will produce small 
tubers the first year and these are kept 
over and planted in the usual way the 
second year, at which time you can tell 
whether the new seedling is worth while 
or not. A great majority of such seed¬ 
lings are of no particular value. Prob¬ 
ably the experts at Cornell University, 
Ithaca, N. Y., would examine the va¬ 
rieties. 
Handling Asparagus Plants 
For the last few years I have raised, 
each year, asparagus from seed; trans¬ 
planted it as soon as large enough to a 
temporary bed ; then the next Spring put 
in its permanent bed. This year I have 
raised another thousand. Can the seed¬ 
lings be placed in their permanent bed 
this Fall? Can the trench be filled up 
to the level even though the plants, when 
Winter comes, are not above the trench? 
Would those little plants be strong 
enough next Spring to push their way 
through all that soil? As there is so 
much to do in the Spring I thought if I 
could get them in this Fall it would be a 
help. F. r. 
Transplant the young roots in a per¬ 
manent bed the last of October. Set roots 
from 12 to 15 in. deep, fill trenches with 
earth and well-rotted manure, level with 
top, so the water will not stand in rows. 
In the Spring, as soon as the soil is dry 
enough to work, plow out a light furrow, 
within 4 in. of the crowns, then as the 
young shoots come through, pull in the 
earth with rake or hoe, a little at a time, 
until the trenches are filled. 
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