Good seed potatoes and how to produce them / William Stuart.
The production of high-grade seed potatoes should be regarded as a special business. Good seed is a determining factor in the production of maximum crops of potatoes. The use of high-grade seed would increase the return from the potato crop of the country by many millions of dollars. Good strains of...
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| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture,
1919.
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| Edition: | Rev. Aug. 1919. |
| Series: | Farmers' bulletin (United States. Department of Agriculture) ;
no. 533. |
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Table of Contents:
- Yields of potatoes
- What constitutes good seed
- Pure seed
- Seed from productive plants
- Immature seed
- Uniformity in size and shape of tubers
- Development of high-grade seed potatoes
- Requirements for success
- Seed treatment
- Preparation and fertilization of the soil
- Careful cultural practices
- Elimination of varietal mixtures and diseased or weak plants
- Careful harvesting and proper storage of the crop
- Large compared with small seed tubers
- Whole compared with cut seed.