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E-text prepared by Steven Giacomelli, Jeannie Howse, Irma Špehar, Janet Blenkinship, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA), Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University (http://chla.library.cornell.edu/)
THE $100. PRIZE ESSAY ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE POTATO.
Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton.
HOW TO COOK THE POTATO,
Furnished by Prof. BLOT.
ILLUSTRATED. PRICE, 25 CENTS.
CONTENTS
PRIZE ESSAY
ON THE
POTATO AND ITS CULTIVATION.
$100.
POTATO CULTURE.
SOIL REQUIRED—ITS PREPARATION.
GENERAL REMARKS ON MANURING WITH GREEN CROPS.
VARIETIES.
INFLUENCE OF SOIL ON SEEDLINGS.
HOW TO CROSS VARIETIES.
SMOOTH VS. ROUGH POTATOES.
CUT AND UNCUT SEED.
PLANTING AND MANURING.
CULTIVATION.
PLASTER.
THE POTATO-ROT—ITS CAUSE
REMEDY FOR THE POTATO-ROT.
DIGGING AND STORING
INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE POTATO.
GENERAL REMARKS ON INSECTS.
VALUE OF THE POTATO AS CATTLE FOOD.
HOW TO COOK THE POTATO.
FURNISHED BY
PROF. PIERRE BLOT, OF BROOKLYN.
THE POTATO:
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS.
Excelsior.
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
LIKE WEIGHTS OF SEED UPON EQUAL AREAS OF GROUND.
Massasoit.
Bresee's Peerless, or No. 6.
TABLE OF EXPERIMENTS.
Try it and Report Results.
Brezee's King of the Earlies.
THE EARLY MOHAWK POTATO.
Brezee's Prolific.
THE GLEASON.
Willard.
THE EARLY ROSE.
Early Goodrich.
HARISON.
CLIMAX.
Early Prince.
ESTABLISHED IN 1842.
A Good, Cheap, and very Valuable Paper for Every Man, Woman, and Child
IN CITY, VILLAGE, AND COUNTRY.
THE
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST,
FOR THE
Farm, Garden, and Household,
TERMS—English Edition.
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