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Hobby's Yards. — The land here was pasture which had been broken up the 

 season before for potatoes, but which had not been used. Ideal conditions 

 were obtained for a good crop, but the early vigorous growth was checked by 

 insufficient moisture during the llowering and growing time of the tuber. 



Carcoar. — The same remark applies to the land here also, the crop being 



on an area which had been allowed to go back to grazing for a couple of 



years. 



The Varieties Reviewed. 



Carman, Eaily Rose, and Maidiattan have done well for several seasons, 

 and Factor and Early Manistee are worthy of further trial. [Jp-to-Date, 

 Queen of the Valley, and Surprise only seem to do Avell when the season is a 

 long one. The consistently worst varieties are Sussex, Satisfaction, and 

 Coronation, in that order, and these could well be eliminated from tests in 

 the Central Tablelands. As the source of seed for the experimental plots 

 varies, and no effort is made to improve or even maintain the productiveness 

 of some varieties, it is quite probable that, given attention along these lines, 

 the bad reputation of some may be reversed, as they must have had some 

 qualification to recommend them when first produced and put upon the 

 market. 



Carman No. 1 was introduced into the Romsey (Vic.) district from 

 A.merica by Mr. H. W. Cook about 1895, and was used by this Department in 

 1913, as it was one of the best early varieties, giving general satisfaction. The 

 potato called "Carman" in the tests under review is different to Carman 

 No. 1 as first used, the tuber being more oblong in shape and the plant 

 producing a greater growth of foliage. 



Early Manistee — also an early American variety, and introduced by Mr. 

 J. E. Cook (Vic.) in 1908 — assumes a more flattened shape when grown on 

 the tablelands. 



Factor, an English variety, has a good clean skin with shallow eyes, and 

 has superior table qualities to Up-to-Date, which it resembles. 



• The plots were fertilised with 2 cwt. P7 mixture (equal parts of superphosphate 

 and bonedust) per acre. 



