Some of the seedsmen announce new varieties of potatoes for the coming year, and offer prizes for the largest yield from one pound of seed potatoes. Those who may wish to experiment in this direction will find it a good plan to procure the seed tubers now and to cut them up into small pieces with a single eye in each. Get a shallow box, like a raisin box, fill it with good soil, and bed the cut potatoes in the soil, packing them pretty close together. Give the soil a good showering and place in a warm, sunny window. They will then sprout and send up green stalks. When from two to three inches high, carefully dig them up, pot each little plant in a small pot, and keep in a warm, shady place for 48 hours, and then place in a sunny window. The plants will grow rapidly, and in about a month the tops can be cut off and used as cuttings. Set them in a pot of sand in a warm north window, and they will soon root and make new plants that may be potted and placed in a sunny window. When planting time comes, the young potato plants can be turned out of the pots and set in the ground. This plan has been tried by people who have neither frames or hot-beds, and has been found to work well. The young plants will be six inches high when other people are just setting the tubers in the ground.

The number of plants will be much larger than if the seed tubers were merely cut up and planted. The larger the number of plants, the larger the crop. In other words, multiply your plants before the growing season begins. - C. B.