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Tuber unit work with potatoes at Republic. Each pile of potatoes is the resulting yield of a different potato, each of which when planted in the spring weighed eight ounces, and which was cut in four pieces and planted the same distance apart.

Title: Annual report of the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture of the State of Michigan ..
Identifier: annualreportofse61mich (find matches)
Year: 1862- (1860s)
Authors: Michigan. State Board of Agriculture; Michigan State College. Agricultural Experiment Station
Subjects: Agriculture -- Michigan
Publisher: Lansing : The Board
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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534 STATE BOARD OF AGRICUL-TURE. Seed potatoes should be selected from healthy productive typical hills. The causes for decreased yields are due probably to the presence of Mosaic, Leaf Boll, or Curly Dwarf which should be removed from the seed plot. These troubles are undoubtedly transferred from dis- eased plants to healthy plants by insects such as leaf hopper, potato beetles, and other insects. The use of bordeaux mixtures and arsenicals can be used to repell and destroy such insects. Black Leg and Fusarium Wilt can be eliminated by rogueing, while Bhizoctonia (Black Scurf) and Scab can be controlled by treating the seed with corrosive sublimate. If these operations are followed carefully it w^ill be possible to secure a much higher yield of potatoes.
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Fig. 23. Tuber unit work with potatoes at Republic. Each pile of potatoes is th€ re- sulting yield of a different potato, each of which when planted in the spring weighed eight ounces, and which was cut in four pieces and planted the saane distance apart. By selecting enough of those healthy hills showing a normal growth, having desirable type and producing good yields, and then planting them in a seed plot in a section of the general field, a sufficient supply of good seed can be secured for your general planting every year. SUGAR BEETS*. In certain sections of the Upper Peninsula, notably the southern portion, the sugar beet has long been considered one of the good cash crops for the farmer to grow. At Menominee is located one of the largest isugar factories in the State. This insures a ready and close market for all beets grown in the adjoining counties. Any fertile, well-drained soil that will produce a good grain, corn, potato or clover crop, will, when properly handled, produce a good sugar beet crop. Clay loams, loams and fertile sandy loams are the soils best suited to the production of beets. Light sandy and marshy soils should not be selected. •Contributed by B. B. Hill, Assistant to the Director. Agent, Menominee Couny. Formerly County Agricultural

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