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they are weighed. The potato is heavier in the fall than it is in 

 spring', as all who have weighed them well know. There arc but 

 few varieties cultivated which weigh more than sixty pounds to 

 the measured bushel. The "Jacksous" and "Oronos" will not, 

 as a general thing, quite come up to the standard ; but they will 

 come very nearly to it in the fall of the year ; in the spring they 

 will fall short about three pounds to the bushel. Consequently, 

 the practice, if it be one, of requiring five pecks for a bushel, is 

 demanding too much of the seller. 



Mr. Ingalls of Bangor. Our city is getting a bad name in this 

 matter, and I suppose there are some who would be glad to say 

 something upon it, when it is in oi'der ; I suppose it would hardly 

 be in order now. 



Mr. Bartlett. Our friend says that we must put in a whole 

 potato, or seed heavily, because the strength of the seed potatoes 

 supports the plant. When potatoes are worth a dollar and a half 

 a bushel, that is a very expensive sort of manure. I will give 

 you one fact that has come under my observation. Mr. T. R. 

 Shaw, of Exeter, who died a year ago, generally had a very good 

 crop of potatoes. He only deposited one eye in each hill. TIo 

 often cut a large potato into twenty pieces. I observed that his 

 potatoes were uniform in size. There were scarcely any very 

 large, but were all of good size, smooth, and excellent in appear- 

 ance. Mr. Shaw's successor planted the same kind of potatoes, 

 on the same soil, and in the. same way, except that he seeded 

 heavier. The result was that there were a great many small ones, 

 and -the yield was not as good. 



Mr. II. C. Burleigh, of Fairfield. I must take one or two ex- 

 ceptioiKs to the rules of culture just presented to us. I have 

 experimented enough the last eight or ten years with potatoes to 

 understand a little about raising them. 1 raise oidy about three 

 varieties, as the gentleman recommended. 1 have tried a good 

 many of the new kinds that are advertised in the papers ; some I 

 have found worthless, others have proved excellent. I never put 

 in a whole potato. If it is the size of a lien's agg (and if I could 

 have my choice 1 would have all (A' that size,) I cut in two, and 

 never put but one piece in a hill ; the hills eighteen inches apart. 

 If the potato is large, 1 cut into Huir, six or eight pieces. I can- 

 not accept the theory in regard to putting but one eye in a hill. 

 I tried it this year with the " Early Rose," and got a great yield 

 from the amount of seed ; l)ut when wo take into account the 



