How To Plant The Potato

-"F. G" in tho Prairie Farmer, says upon tuis subject : Plant oever loss than six inches dcep, botter Beven ; in sandy soil iterar lesa than si.von or soven and a half. The reason is this, and it will show how many points it will cover : It will put the erop beyond tho hurti'ul influenco of tho heit andthe drought; it will bury the 1 30 that the frost cannot reach 11 ly aa it is put into the gronnd; and if it should re.'ich it, boing buried so deeply, it will draw out gradually, which will save it. It is as woll here, tho soed is, as in the cellar, and niay botter sprout hero than in tho cellar. It will thus show above the ground in duo time, when the frosts haro diíappcared and tho growing season sets in. The soil boing weil drained - au indispensable thing - tho rost will not hurt. Thoro being a good mcllow soil, with tho humus (vegetable n charging it, it will be coinparatively dry and warm. This will snvo tho soed, providing always it is softnd ; othorwiise, affected with rot, it will be lost. Tho distance of planting apart must depend upon the fort that is plantod. A spreading potuto - spreading in tne hill - must havo more rooin. Thus, wö plant the Peaoh. Blows farther apart than tho Early liose. Tho lattor will put its tubors close together, a nest of them, and tho hills can be put close together, Liy twelvo to foerteen inches, or drop the aeed (a single eye or two) continuously eight inohes apart, the towb as near togciher as will permit with the cultivator, tha noaror tho betttr for tho closo-irrowing roots. By thus planting, as will be socn, rather close, thei'o will bo no overgrown, and, consoqucntly, coarse, and it may.bi, hollow potittoos. Xeithor will there be neceasaiöy many small onos, os pecially with sonto SOrtë, of which thi' Early lioso is a beautiful oxample. The sizo will bo medium, largo enough - jast tho thing for eooking ; and thcro will be improved uality - a thing, we nood not gay, of no socondary importanoe. Select such seedfor planting as is wantod Eo be grovm, oí the beat, tho iincs'qualitics all rouud, and divide into as many eyos as it ploasos - a few oyes only in a hill.