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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



bushels, giving a distance of one foot, and it results in an increase 

 ©f only four bushels, or eight fifteenths of a bushel to one of seed. 

 Comparing the one and a half feet with the three feet, and we 

 have fort}'- eight bushels more per acre with fifteen bushels of seed 

 than with seven and a half bushels at three feet. The number of 

 hills is given in the table, as found* at harvest, because of there 

 being many missing ones from drought and other causes. In the 

 three experiments with the three feet distance, we have only two 

 missing hills ; in the four at two feet, nine missing ; in the five at 

 one a half feet, thirty-eight ; and in the four at one foot, seventy- 

 two. 



Only one thing seems to be well settled by the above — that to 

 plant this variety of potato with the above quantity of seed, at a 

 less distance than one and a half feet is on the wrong side of cor- 

 rect practice. 



Experiment made at North Perry, by William D. Dana, Esq., at 

 the suggestion of the Board of Agriculture. 



2d. 



3d. 



1st. 



Experiment iiaving reference only to distance, the quantity 



of seed being the same in each hill. Exti'a large or No. 



1 potatoes (two to the pound) cut one eye in each piece, 



and one piece planted in hill, 



No. 2 size seed, eight to the pound, planted as above, cut 



in four pieces, and one piece planted in each hill, 

 No. "2 potatoes cut in two pieces, one piece in a hill. 

 No. 2 potatoes cut in two pieces, two pieces in a hill, 

 No. 2 potatoes cut in two pieces, three pieces in a hill, 

 4th. No. 3 potatoes, seventeen to the pound, cut in two pieces, 

 one piece in a hill, 

 No. 3 cut in two pieces, two pieces in a hill, 

 3 cut in two pieces, three pieces in a hill, 

 2 planted whole, one in each hill, 

 2 planted whole, one in each hill, 

 2 planted whole, one in each hill, 

 2 planted whole, one in each hill, 

 3, seventeen to the pound, planted whole, one in each 



5th. 



6th, 



No. 

 No. 

 No. 

 No. 

 No. 

 No. 



hill. 



No. 3 planted whole, one in each hill, 

 No. 3 planted whole, one in each hill. 

 No. 3 planted whole, one in each hill, 



