Agriculture for beginners . ield will richly repaythis care in selecting. It matters not so much whether theseed potato be large or small; it must, however, come froma hill bearing a large yield of fine potatoes. Sweet-potato plants are produced from shoots, or growingbuds, taken from the potato itself, so that in their case toothe piece that we use in propagating is a part of the originalplant, and will therefore be like it under similar as with the Irish potato, it is important to know how. Fig. 46. Begoxia-Leaf Cutting THE PLANT 57 good a yielder you are planting. You should
Agriculture for beginners . ield will richly repaythis care in selecting. It matters not so much whether theseed potato be large or small; it must, however, come froma hill bearing a large yield of fine potatoes. Sweet-potato plants are produced from shoots, or growingbuds, taken from the potato itself, so that in their case toothe piece that we use in propagating is a part of the originalplant, and will therefore be like it under similar as with the Irish potato, it is important to know how. Fig. 46. Begoxia-Leaf Cutting THE PLANT 57 good a yielder you are planting. You should watch duringharvest and select for propagation for the next }ear onlysuch plants as yield best. We should exercise fully as much care in selecting properindividuals from which to make a cutting or a layer as we doin selecting a proper animal to breed from. Just as we selectthe finest Jersey in the herd for breeding purposes, so weshould choose first the variety of plant we desire and thenthe finest individual plant ofthat variety. If the variety of the potatothat we desire to raise be EarlyRose, it is not enough to selectany Early Rose plants, but thever)^ best Early Rose plants, tofurnish our seed. It is not enough to selectlarge, fine potatoes for large potato may not produce a bountifully yielding xilll produce a plant like the one that produced it. It maybe that this one large potato was the only one produced bythe original plant. If so, the plant that grows from it willtend
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