. Boone County Recorder. ifli i iTfflWIiMiMrrtffMffiiiiMllWil^ PAGE EIGHT BOONE COUNTY RECORDER EARLY ARPIL BEST TIMETO SEED SWEET POTATOES. Lexington, Ky.—Sweet potatoes,one of the main crops in Kentucky,arc best bedded for plants duringthe first ten days in April, the mostfavorable date for bedding beingsomewhat earlier in the western thanin the eastern part of the State, ac-cording to A. J. Olney, horticultur-ist at the College of Agriculture. TheState produces about two millionbushels of the crop each year. Better plants usual y are obtainedby using a hot bed of >ome kind al-though many
. Boone County Recorder. ifli i iTfflWIiMiMrrtffMffiiiiMllWil^ PAGE EIGHT BOONE COUNTY RECORDER EARLY ARPIL BEST TIMETO SEED SWEET POTATOES. Lexington, Ky.—Sweet potatoes,one of the main crops in Kentucky,arc best bedded for plants duringthe first ten days in April, the mostfavorable date for bedding beingsomewhat earlier in the western thanin the eastern part of the State, ac-cording to A. J. Olney, horticultur-ist at the College of Agriculture. TheState produces about two millionbushels of the crop each year. Better plants usual y are obtainedby using a hot bed of >ome kind al-though many plants era grown with-out this sid. An eight to ten inch lay-er of horse manure covered withabout four or five inches of soil, pre-ferably pure sand rather than gar-den soil, gives good results in thebed. Planting healthy seed, that haspreviously been treated, in soil thatis known to be free from black rot,scurf and other sweet potato diseas-es is the only method of controllingthese, the suggestions point out. Theseed
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