id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 25905 Compton, D. A. 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. .txt text/plain 20344 1017 75 proved to be best adapted to the production of the Potato crop. potatoes per acre; and that the few bushels of small tubers that they do To make potato-growing profitable in these times of high prices of land cropping, potatoes yielded an average of four hundred bushels per acre. condition to yield a maximum crop of potatoes, is fitted to grow other this potato is, the largest tubers appear to be of as good quality as potatoes of this variety are better than new ones of most early kinds, Experiments prove that eyes from the "seed end" produce potatoes that If small, ill-shaped potatoes be planted on the same ground for three seed-potatoes, the roots soon fill the whole hill, and tubers are formed There are ten distinct species of insects preying upon the potato-plant Two pounds large-sized potatoes, planted whole 00 Two pounds small potatoes, planted whole 00 ./cache/25905.txt ./txt/25905.txt