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mine. It may be that on his soil it does not do well, but on 

 our soil it is the best variety that we use. On a piece of not 

 more than half an acre, the man who managed my farm raised 

 about 120 bushels. It seems to me that, for our sandy river 

 bottoms, there is nothing like the Early Rose. 



Mr. Low. — I should not wish to say a word in favor of 

 the Early Rose if the gentleman would go with me to the 

 other side of the river, where I would show him some 

 specimens of the Early Rose that were raised in a different 

 way from his ; where the manure was applied in large quanti- 

 ties, and the yield was 300 bushels to the acre. I will show 

 him some of that description in the cellar of Mr. Lillibridge. 

 I have found that the Early Rose required high feeding. I 

 have also found that one acre of potatoes manured well, the 

 manure plowed in, with ashes and plaster, or phosphate, in 

 the hill, will produce about as large a crop as three acres, 

 planted as the doctor suggests. I believe it is more profitable 

 to use less land and less labor, and get larger crops. I have 

 found that twenty or thirty loads of manure to the acre secure 

 a much better proportionate result than ten loads. 



Mr. a. G. Lyman, of Columbia. — I came to this meetino- 

 particularly to hear the discussion with regard to this matter. 

 I suppose that if there is any object in holding meetings of 

 this kind, it is to get at facts. Mere theories are not what we 

 want. Theory is good, but practice is better. 



Last year, for my own gratification, not expecting that it 

 would ever come to the notice of anybody, I made a series of 

 experiments upon potatoes, with different kinds of manures 

 on the same soil. It was only a small piece of ground of fif- 

 teen rods that I tried the experiments upon. I tried five dif- 

 ferent kinds of manure upon that same piece, to see if there 

 was any difference. The soil was apparently the same, as far 

 as I could see — rather light, with a gravelly bottom. It was 

 not a piece of ground that everybody would naturally take to 

 produce a great crop — not one especially adapted to experi- 

 ments — but it was all I had, and therefore I used it. 



The Garnet Chili was the variety I planted. And here let 

 me observe, before I give the result, that I believe you can 



