POTATO GROWING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 901, 22 August 1910, Page 10

POTATO GROWING.

;f ''PETOLOHN&^THB't'tJBERS? ' : ''' f Eii H.','(Jfubb/'potatei-groKar.. of '■ Colo-' rad<*, .~..teHs.r:'.the .following ... story. :— E.R. Berihettj.a; specialist'■•in,. ; pot.ato:>work' from the/East; camo'r'to'/our, state agricultural.^college.'.'..'Ho 'became; interested ill .the Work the writer was. doing, and freely .'complimented ,'hini. on his suc-cess'iiiipotato^rffoducVo^'r'Jhii-tio. want-ed:to-tako up and'further improve the! sjtock. '■• Outj,of,'specially selected seed Ho | selected 'perfect -tubers "-and planted them in ; a.., field'b'yi ..themselves,. "and when the to harvest 'we' dug' all:' of 'them ■: by ■ hand and kept the product l of; each : hill; separate. Air hills''.that did'•'■•riot;'.liave' : twenty tubers of unifornl'.'size,''.;''s(rithout, lmpt, crack, or Trough end/tfcreii'discarded. '■No'..hill'' was' selected.^unlejji,it camo within these' '•j.aiid ,■ surprisingly, iew. hills : were'.found which passed muster... Enough were selected'' however,' 'to, make abqut jtwo hundred pounds, and, these „were,;planted the following spring. -.When; harvested it was a most.marvellous ■ rowot ( potatoes. By, pursuing ■ i tliis, l mcthgi},"^'is hoped soon to have a pofato-that-will make hill.".