EEPOETS OF DEPAETMEXTS. 



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NAME. YIELD. 



Snow Ball... 3 lbs 



Eetl Kidney 3 



Purple Mercer 3 



White Chili 3 



Badger 3 



Early Victor 3 



Irish American 3 



Missouri White 3 



Acme 3 



Delraahoy 3 



Early June .- 3 



Patterson's Golden 3 



Royal Ash-leaved Kidney... 3 



Gardener 3 



Yankee Flat 3 



Andes .-. 3 



Early Handel 3 



Irish Blue 3 



Mona's Pride 3 



Patterson's Seedling 3 



Moll Eoimd 3 



Eochester Seedling.- 2 



White-eyed Peach Blow 2 



Patterson's Blue 2 



Scotch Blue 2 



Mexican 2 



Amazon 2 



Snow Flake 2d 2 



EarlyWhite.. 2 



Bulklev's Seedling 2 



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12 



9 



9 



8 

 8 

 8 



oz. 



15 

 U 

 13 

 13 



12 

 12 

 12 



12 



NAME. YIELD. 



Spotted Shaw 2 lbs. 9 oz. 



Late Peach Blow 2 9 



Coldbrook 2 7 



Black Kidney 2 7 



True Monitor 2 G 



Early Eace Horse 2 5 



White Club 2 5 



Early Sovereign 2 4 



Ash Top Fluke 2 2 



Pink Eye.. , 2 1 



Pink Eye No. 2 2 



Prince Albert 1 11 



Heins 1 9 



Tyrell Xo. 1 1 7 



Merino 1 7 



Frankfort 1 7 



California 1 7 



No. 2 Bush 1 G 



Milky White. 1 5 



Cherry Blow 1 4 



Scotch Seebec. 1 3 



Tayagua 1 1 



Kidney 14 



Late PinkEye 12 



Farmer's Delight .. 7 



Mountain June PinkEye G 



Early Pink Eye G 



Bradford's Eed .. 



Casco 



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The experiment would be of very inucli more value, had we been able to in- 

 crease the number of hills of each sort. We intend to repeat the.se trials on a 

 larger scale next year. In looking over the comparative yield it must be re- 

 membered that the different sorts vary with the season, or the particular spot 

 in which they happen to grow. Any careful observer knows that the same 

 variety will often vary much in the same row. Again, it must not be forgotten 

 that we cannot determine the merit of a potato by the scales or by the measure. 

 Some of those yielding ])est are of very jioor quality. Some will be good in 

 one season and j)oor in another. Some will be good on one soil, or in one part 

 of a country, and poor in another. Last year the Climax exceeded all the others 

 in yield, but it was watery and unlit for human food. 



To arrive at correct conclusions as to the relative merits of potatoes, is a com- 

 plicated question, not so easily decided as, at first thought, might be supposed. 



]S'EW Y.^.EIETIES. 



Twenty new sorts of potatoes have this year been obtained from seed. Some 

 of them were \ery large and promising for the first year. A large quantity of 

 seeds from the balls of about 50 sorts has been saved for experimenting next 

 year. . Seeds of two species of wild gooseberries have been planted to get new 

 varieties. In one case the berries came from a wild plant which had been 

 thoroughly cultivated a year or two. Seeds from a plant in a vigorous unnat- 

 ural condition, it seemed to me, might be more likely to produce plants which 

 would be of new varieties. Seeds have also been sown of raspberries, of six 

 sorts of currants, of grapes, of huckleberries, of wild or black haw, of straw- 

 berries, some of which were artificially crossed by fertilizing Wilson wdtli pollen 

 of tlie_ Michigan. 



