Excerpt from Potato Culture Dear Sir: I have the honor to submit this treatise on the culture of the potato, prepared at your instance, for publication as a bulletin of your Department. It is based upon an experience of thirty years with this crop, the conclusions being influenced by many years' close study of the results in experimentation at the various agricultural stations. There is pleasure in noting the fact that the results oh tained by our scientific experimenters, are in close accord with each other when the factors controlling these results are considered. In the matter of plant diseases an-d remedies, and in that of varieties, I have quoted freely from our best authorities, seeking thereby to gain the weight for the treatise that attaches to their names. While the grower of potatoes will recognize that the writing has been done by a practical farmer, I hope that it may be found scientific in that it contains truth arranged in an orderly manner. There is no thought that a working plan has been outlined for every grower, but I have sought to make plain the nature of the potato plant in order that we might understand its needs, its likes and dislikes, and to indicate ways in which we might modify our local conditions so that these need-s would be supplied. When we under stand' the law governing the growth of any plant, and adapt our methods so that such law is not violated, success is assured with a fair degree of certainty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.