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The committee regret that they had not, at the day of exhibi- 

 tion, and that tliey have not had since that time, statements of 

 the modes of their cultnre, or of " the best conducted experi- 

 ments in raising them." Premiums for the best experiments, 

 in this regard, they consequently are not prepared to award. 



The following statements from Messrs. Mann and Colburn, 

 were passed to the committee at the time of the exhibition. 



D. Kimball, Chairman. 



Statement of S. C. Mann. 



If your attention is called to twelve varieties of potatoes, ex- 

 hibited by me, I desire to state that they were sent mainly for 

 the purpose of showing the result of light seeding. They were 

 all grown from small potatoes, not large enough for cooking, 

 and were all cut so that not more than two eyes remained on a 

 piece. Two pieces were put in a hill. They were planted about 

 the first of June, in different locations, and where they escaped 

 the effect of the late drought, the crop was good. The crops 

 not being yet gathered in, I only measured the produce of one 

 variety, namely, that kind grown from bits cut from the seed 

 end, taking not over one-eighth part of the potato, and this I 

 often cut in two pieces, the remaining seven-eighths of the pota- 

 to being used for the table. This gave me one bushel from 

 eighteen hills. It was not an experiment with me this year ; I 

 risked this manner of planting from the result of former trials. 



I also exhibit a sample of potatoes grown from bits cut from 

 the seed end two months previous to planting, — the principal 

 part of the potato having also been used for the table. The seed 

 in all cases was limed immediately after cutting. 

 Dedham. 



Statement of Mr. Colburri. 



I have presented a bushel of "Jenny Lind" potatoes. I 

 planted one peck of seed and raised three bushels from thirty- 

 two hills. The bushel is a fair sample of the whole of them. 

 They were raised on low land, on rich, deep soil. 



Dedham. 



