. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 750. Beginning of late blight on left. Right spray good, but sliowing a few boles made by flea-beetles. Earlies: Bliss Triumph, Early Ohio, Six Weeks Market, Early Thoroughbred, Bovee,Reliance,Crown Jewel, Noroton Beauty, Burpee Extra-Early, Eureka, Early Rose (some strains). Second earlies: Burpee Extra-Early, Eureka, Beauty of Hebron, Polaris, Irish Cobbler, Early Rose (.some strains). Late: Carmen No. 3, Sir Walter Raleigh, Rural New Yorker No. 2, Vermont Gold Coin, State of Maine, Green Mountain, Freeman, Burbank. Potatoes sometim
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 750. Beginning of late blight on left. Right spray good, but sliowing a few boles made by flea-beetles. Earlies: Bliss Triumph, Early Ohio, Six Weeks Market, Early Thoroughbred, Bovee,Reliance,Crown Jewel, Noroton Beauty, Burpee Extra-Early, Eureka, Early Rose (some strains). Second earlies: Burpee Extra-Early, Eureka, Beauty of Hebron, Polaris, Irish Cobbler, Early Rose (.some strains). Late: Carmen No. 3, Sir Walter Raleigh, Rural New Yorker No. 2, Vermont Gold Coin, State of Maine, Green Mountain, Freeman, Burbank. Potatoes sometimes sport or "mix" in the hill, and these bud-sports may be treated as new varie- ties. Practically all the new varieties of potatoes, however, are produced from seed, for every seedling is likely to be different from the parent. Seed-balls are not produced abundantly on varieties. If it is desired to produce new kinds, the seed should be saved and treated as tomato seed is treated, being planted the following spring. The first year the plants are small and slender, and the tubers will also be very small. These tubers are saved and planted the next year, when a crop of good-sized tubers may be expected, showing their characteristics. If it is desired to combine features of two varieties, the flowers may be crossed ; and the resulting seed will produce hybrids. Harvesting and storing.—Early potatoes are dug as soon as large enough for sale. Late varieties are left until the vines are dead ; should the vines be killed by blight and it is intended to store the tubers, the digging should be delayed, if possible, until ten days after the date the vines died. The grower should harvest when the land is dry, pick up the tubers at once and keep them cool. In stor- age the tubers should be held between 32° and 40° Fahr., be well ventilated and kept dark. Potatoes may be stored in the open, in piles covered with straw and earth, in cellars or root^ houses according to t
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