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Table VIII. — Showing Results Obtained with Thkee Varieties of Potatoes 

 WHEN Grown Side by Side on Twenty-Seven Different Farms in 1904. 



NAME. 



W. A. Prentice 



Frank Paddock 



Earle Morse 



W. W. Salmon 



L. P. Frisbee 



W. C. Buell 



F. A. Salisbury 



M. L. Peryer 



C. H. O. Reiner 



E. A. Lloyd 



P. S. Birch 



S. L. Shapley 



C. T. Stone 



J. Zelie 



Wm. Ix)wey 



George A. Petri 



George A. Goodwin.. 



Perry Cooper 



H. Post 



.Jarvis Bros 



E. L. WeUman 



C. C. Brayman 



G. C. Bogart 



Ray B. Bower 



H. D. Gage 



G. W. Tailby 



A. E. Patrick 



Cbunty. 



Livingston 

 Wyoming, 

 Wyoming, 

 Lewis . . . 

 Delaware 

 Ontario. . 

 Ontario.. 

 Clinton. . 

 Suffolk. . 

 Niagara. . 

 Tompkins 

 Madison . 

 Madison . 

 Schuyler. 

 Orange . . 

 SuUivan . 

 Cayuga . . 



Erie 



Erie 



Otsego. . . 

 Chaut. . . 

 Albany. . 

 Tioga. . . . 

 Onondaga 

 Chenango. 

 Tompkins 

 Chenango . 



Soil. 



L 

 L 

 L 

 L 

 L 

 L 

 L 

 L 

 L 

 L 

 L 

 L 

 L 

 L 

 L 

 H 

 H 

 H 

 H 

 H 

 H 

 H 

 H 

 H 

 H 

 H 

 H 



Gold Coin. 



Lbs. per 

 plat. 



Average lbs. per plat 



Average bus. per acre 



Average on 15 light soils , 



Average on 12 heavy soils 



Difference in yield on light and heavy soils 



No. of times took 1st rank , 



No. of times took 2d rank , 



No, of times took 3rd rank , 



131 

 50 

 46 



158 

 42 

 80 

 86 



124 

 22 

 60 



152 

 66 

 37 



101 

 88 

 87 

 52 

 41 

 43 

 93 

 34 



108 

 30 



128 



118 

 47 

 74 



Rank, 



Wilson's 1st 

 choice. 



Lbs. per 

 plat. 



117 

 62 

 64 



112 

 49 

 67 

 94 



104 

 25 

 81 



143 

 77 

 71 

 87 

 66 

 94 



15 



40 



95 



39 



144 



29 



114 



118 



49 



72 



Rank. 



Prosperity. 



Lbs. per 

 plat. 



120 

 51 

 44 



101 

 36 

 77 

 79 



101 

 14 

 66 



128 

 64 

 51 



105 

 64 



101 

 56 

 28 

 42 

 85 

 30 



119 

 26 



117 



136 

 51 

 65 



Rank. 



2 

 2 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 2 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 2 

 3 

 3 

 2 

 1 

 3 

 1 



Potato Machinery. The College of Agriculture has at various 

 times made trials of planters, cultivators and diggers. These trials 

 have not, however, been sufficiently extended or included a sufficient 

 number of machines to warrant a report in detail, but some general 

 considerations growing out of our tests and observations may be 

 given. 



A number of planters have been tested and in comparison with 

 the old method of hand planting most of them work successfully. 

 They do the work rapidly and largely reduce the expense of planting. 

 But each of them leaves something more to be desired. With those 

 machines having automatic droppers, we failed to secure as regular 

 and even placing of the seed as is necessary for the largest yields. 

 About 80 per cent correct was the result usually secured. The other 

 20 per cent was either misses or the seed was not deposited at the 

 proper place. Those machines requiring an attendant to supervise 



