REPOETS OF DEPARTMENTS. 



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requiring lialf a day's work to keep the Aveeds under for three months, and even 

 tlien doing it imperfectly. 



It is a little difficult, at first, to make the students work the ground all over 

 thorouglily if they can see no weeds. However, they do prefer working a clean 

 garden to one filled with weeds two to six inches liigli. A single season of this 

 practice generally convinces them all tliat it is the cheapest Avay and that .it 

 bnngs the most profit. 



We cultivate mostly Avith a horse one Avay, making the rows long and straight. 

 The students' Avork in the garden is mostly done with a steel-toothed rake and 

 hand cultivators. We take great pains to remoA'e any pigweed, jrai'slanes, etc., 

 Avhicli may have escaped previous notice. They contain seeds in immense num- 

 bers before nui,ny people are aAvare of it. One of the students last season esti- 

 mated tliat a large, Avcll-groAAii plant of purslane contained 1,250,000 seeds. 

 The ground is carefully freed from Aveeds till A\dnter. None are allowed to seed 

 the ground. ThcA' appear now to be running out. 



XOTES ox OXIONS. 



A roAV ten feet long of each sort Avas planted on sandy, leechy soil, all 

 treated alike. Harvested Avhen cold Aveather came : 



AVeight. 



Naseby's Gray Mammoth, poor and unripe 9 lbs. 10 ozs. 



AVhite Globe/ mature 10 " 10 " 



Early Ked Globe, mature, nice 12 " 12 " 



Giant Kocca, immature, uneven _ . 15 '•' 5 "^ 



IraproA'cd Large YelloAv Cracker, mature, medium 8 " 9 " 



NeAv Queen, earlv, amoimt to little .. *' 12 " 



White Flat Italian, verv early G " 8 " 



Early Flat Red \ 7 '' 3 " 



Southport Late Globe, good size, not mature 14 *' 14 " 



Yellow Strasburgh 12 " 14 " 



Marzajole, one half scullions 3 " 11 " 



Large Round Giant Maderia, large, immature 15 " 14 " 



White Portugal, Avliite pink stripe, pretty 8 " 8 " 



YelloAv DanA'ers, mature 11 " G '' 



Red Wethersfield, not all mature, good yield. 

 The quality Avas not tested. 



EXPERIMENTS AVITH POTATOES. 



PLAN OF PROCEDURE. 



Planted on surface 



Planted J^ foot deep.- 



Planted 1 foot deep 



Planted in ridge 6 inches high 



Planted seed end of tuher 



Planted oi^posite end 



Planted, pruned as last year.. . 

 OrdinarA" culture. 



Size. 



Large. 

 Largest. 



Large. 

 A^ariable. 



Large. 

 Medium. 



Small. 

 Medium. 



Xumbcr. 



Many. 

 Medium. 

 Medium. 

 Medium. 

 Medium. 



FeAv. 



FCAV. 



Medium. 



Per Hill. 



4 7-25 

 4 8-11 

 2 4-5 



41-9 



2 15-22 



4 



In the plat pruned there Avas cut irregularly about one-third of the tops at 

 three different times. 



