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2nd acre. — ^With 2 bushels of barley and ^ bushel of pease; sown 16th May and 

 harvested 25th August; gave 18 bushels, weighing 50^ lbs. per bushel. 



3rd acre. — With 2 bushels of oats and ^ bushel of pease ; sown 16th May and 

 harvested 25ih August; gave 27f bushels, weighing 48 lbs. per bushel. 



4th acre. — With IJ bushels of wheat and ^ bushel of pease; sown 28th April and 

 harvested 7th August; gave H3 bushels per acre, weighing 60 lbs. per bushel. 



5th acre. — With a dressing of 100 loads of marsh mud, and sown with 3 bushels 

 of oats on 16th May and harvested 25th August; gave 30 bushels, weighing 39 lbs. 

 per bushel. 



6th acre. — With a dressing of 1 brl. of Imperial fertilizer; sown 16th May, 

 with 3 bushels of oats, and harvested 24th August; gave 35 bushels, weighing 41 

 lbs. per bushel. 



POTATOES. 



Twenty-eight varieties of potatoes were planted in two rows of f^G feet in length 

 each. The date when planted, character of tubers, and yield, are given below : — 



Naones. 



Vangruard 



Beauty of Hebron 



Rose's New Giant 



Halton Seedling 



Brownell's Winner 



Clarke's No. 1 



May Queen Early 



Early Eating 



Chicago Market 



Early Rose . . 



Early Ohio 



Empire State 



Algoma . . 



Lee's Favorite 



Thorburn 



Early Maine 



White Star 



Rural New Yorker,No.2,i plot 



Early Puritan 



Richter's Improved 



Stray Beauty 



Ohio Gunner 



Rural Blush , 



Delaware 



London 



Wonder of the World 



Burbank's Seedling 



Great Eastern 



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Character of Growth. 



Growth weak ; tubers small ; early. . . 

 Growth weak ; tubers medium ^ early 

 Growth strong ; tubers large ; late . . 

 Growth med ium ; tubers m ed ium ; early 

 Growth strong; tubers medium ; late 

 Growth strong ; tubers large ; late . . 

 Growth weak ; tubers small ; early. . 

 Growth weak; tubers small; very early 

 Growth strong ; tubers large ; early. 

 Growth weak ; tubers small ; early . . 

 Growth weak ; tubers suiall ; early . . 

 (rrowth strong ; tubers large ; late . . 

 Growth weak ; tubers small ; early. . 

 Growth weak ; tubers small ; early. . 

 Growth strong; tubers large; early. 

 Growth weak ; tubers small ; early. . 

 Growth strong ; tubers medium ; late. 

 Growth strong ; tubers large ; late. . . 

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