SEED POTATOES
CUTTING INTO SETS
The success of the potato crop depciKla very largely .upon the . tubers selected for planting and upon their treatment. Sets of uniform size and
good shape should be chosen if pos-. sible, but where largo potatoes have to be used these may be cut us shown in f lie illustration, each piece having two or three good sprouts. The potatoes: selected for sets should be, if possible, about the size of a duck's egg. These should be arranged iii shallow boxes or tfiiya with (he eyes upwards. If they arc placed on a bench near a window where they will get plenty of light the tubers will. "green,"-aud the sprouts will be short and thick and a dark colour. When flowed to sprout in the. sacks, long, spindly' .white shoots de-i velop, which are very liable to be: broken off when planting. It is a generally accepted fact thatbetter crops will be obtained from seed which, has been properly greened and sprouted. • ■ " ;
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 103, 4 May 1933, Page 17
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167SEED POTATOES Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 103, 4 May 1933, Page 17
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