The Potato a Practical Treatise On the Potato Its Characteristics Planting C
The Potato a Practical Treatise On the Potato Its Characteristics Planting C
Samuel Fraser
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Goff, 1 of Wisconsin, planted the Burbank variety at different depths, and found that shallow planting in- sured greater germination and more tubers per hill, but that they were nearer the surface and had more ex- posed tubers. TABLE X Depth of Planting Hills Ger- minating Tubers Protruding from Soil Average Number of Tubers per Hill A verage Weight of Tubers per Hill A verage Depth to Deepest Tuber Per cent. Per cent. Pounds Inches 2 too 8. 4 6. 6 . 58 2-5 4 96 . 8 5-4 . 62 3-5 6 88 3-2 35 5-o... The Canadian Experiment Farms 3 report, as the re- sult of four years' trials, that with tubers planted i inch to 8 inches deep, where the sets were planted less than 4 inches deep, nearly all the tubers were formed between that depth and the surface, and when plant- ed deeper than 4 inches most of them formed within 4 inches of the surface. The deduction made from these results was that the potatoes developed in the surface 1 Wis. Report, 1897, p. 306. 3 Can. Exp. Farms Report, 1901, p. 117. 96 THE POTATO 4 inches of soil because it was warmer than the 3 or 4 inches lower down.
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