. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. \" Fig. 758. Potato digger, low elevator type Potato tops are all raked and burned immi'diately to destroy disease. The ground is worked about twice with the spring-tooth harrow and sown di- rectly to wheat, after applying about 400 pounds of Fig. 759. Potato digger; high elevator type. home-mixed fertilizer. Eight quarts of choice tim- othy seed is drilled to the acre at
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. \" Fig. 758. Potato digger, low elevator type Potato tops are all raked and burned immi'diately to destroy disease. The ground is worked about twice with the spring-tooth harrow and sown di- rectly to wheat, after applying about 400 pounds of Fig. 759. Potato digger; high elevator type. home-mixed fertilizer. Eight quarts of choice tim- othy seed is drilled to the acre at this time. The following spring, clover or alfalfa, or both, is added. In such high-class potato-growing as this, special attention must be given to the stock seed. A "seed piece" of two acres is grown according to the very best approved methods. This area is planted with the choicest large tubers, and all inferior plants are eradicated as rapidly as their deficiencies become known. Very promising hills are saved for stock seed the following year. This "seed piece" or field supplies the tubers for raising the main potato crops. European experience. The potato crop assumes great importance in Europe, partly because the corn plant is not suc- cessful, and the po- tato is the cheap starch-producing plant. It is the stand- ard crop for starch and alcohol factories, is the staple food of the poor, and is much fed to stock. The aim, as compared with American po- tato - growers (and reported for this article by L. R. Jones), is for a product adapted to one or another special purpose, and for a large yield quite irrespective of the seed or labor invested. Careful attention is paid to the seed, which is generally secured from more north- erly countries. The crop from the best northern-grown seed is con- sidered more disease-resistant and more productive. The origination of new varieties has been espe- rially stimulated during the last in ilecades in Great Britain and
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