. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. 128 POTATOES AND POTATO CULTURE saving the product of such hills as yield the greatest weight of smooth, marketable tubers, or buy from a reliable grower whom we know to be selecting his seed in a like manner. It is a false idea of economy to save a few dollars per acre by using cheap seed, and thereby ruin your chances of success at the start. The fact that many growers are j)lanting small and indifferent seed, year after year, largely accounts for the low average yield reported, and also for the deterioration of most varieties after eight or ten year
. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. 128 POTATOES AND POTATO CULTURE saving the product of such hills as yield the greatest weight of smooth, marketable tubers, or buy from a reliable grower whom we know to be selecting his seed in a like manner. It is a false idea of economy to save a few dollars per acre by using cheap seed, and thereby ruin your chances of success at the start. The fact that many growers are j)lanting small and indifferent seed, year after year, largely accounts for the low average yield reported, and also for the deterioration of most varieties after eight or ten years in the hands of the average grower. Small to medium tubers grown from seed selected as already mentioned, that have not lost their vitality by sprouting, will generally produce a more satisfactory crop than larger seed of the same variety grown from a jDoor strain of tubers that have been weakened by excessive Fig. 8.—Dewey Rose, Potato No. 136. Varieties. (For description and yield of varieties, see Experi- ments VIII and IX of this Bulletin.) As our New England markets demand a round or oblong white potato, we recommend for main croi^ the planting of such varieties as the Green Mountain and Delaware, or varieties that closely resemble them. As seedsmen are each year introducing and selling at fabu- lous prices new and untried varieties, the most of which are soon dropped from their catalogues and forgotten, we advise the New Hampshire growers to dej^end on standard sorts that have. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station. [Hanover, N. H. ] : New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station
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