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my seed and pnlliug them. I sow it right in with the clover and I think it 

 helps the clover too. 



Mr. Eose : Being inexperienced in farming when I came here, I experi- 

 mented with different kinds of potatoes and ways of putting them in. I do 

 not think the Early Eose does as well as two or three other varieties. My 

 first potatoes were the Late Eose that I got from Gaylord, from the hard wood 

 country. I planted about June first. They were very fine^ good sized but 

 very few in a hill. The next season I planted the Early Eose, the Late Eose 

 and the Mammoth Pearl. The Late Eose did very well, at the rate of 150 

 bushels to the acre, the Mammoth Pearl went a little over 300 bushels to the 

 acre and a special test I made of the Mammoth Pearl went 450 bushels to an 

 acre by measurement, with the finest kind of cultivating on second plowing. 

 I perceive no difference in the yield or quality of Clark's No. 1, Burbank's 

 Seedling, Mammoth Pearl, White Star and the Early Eose ; they are just about 

 alike in yield. The Clark's No. 1 matures the earliest of any potato. 



As we are on the root crop I will say a word in regard to carrots. Five 

 years I have raised carrots and five years I have planted them on the same 

 ground; half of it never was manured but once, half of it has been 

 manured twice. I find that the White Belgian yields the most in bushels, 

 but the stock relish the Long Scarlet the best and I believe they are the most 

 profitable to raise. You can grow almost as many bushels of them as of any 

 kind by cultivating deep and manuring. 



Mr. Niles: I raised the Mammoth Pearl, Burbank's Seedling and Early 

 Telephone. These varieties aveiaged about the same — about two hundred 

 bushels to an acre with good culture. On another patch with no cultivation 

 whatever, I got at about the rate of one huudred bushels to an acre. They 

 were smaller, but they were very fair in quality; very dry and mealy. 



The following paper was then read : 



HAY RAISING ON THE PLAINS. 

 BY J. G. MAESH. 



In the spring of 1879 I broke two and a half acres of virgin plains land 

 and planted it to various spring crops, but nothing except a few potatoes 

 made out to live, and I only harvested five bushels of them. 



In 1880 I cross plowed the piece and planted to potatoes and garden truck, 

 getting a crop including one hundred and seventy-five bushels of potatoes 

 which would have brought the next spring $100. 



In 1881, June 16tli, I planted two acres of this ground to Dent corn and har- 

 vested what you might call a good crop for this country — eighty bushels of 

 hard corn, twenty bushels soft corn and a heavy growth of stalks. Crop 

 was worth $100. 



In the spring of '82 I plowed the two acres seven inches deep, smoothed it 

 down and sowed two bushels of spring wheat, sixteen pounds mammoth 

 clover and six pounds timothy seed. The wheat was thin on the ground with 

 a good growth of straw, yield not over ten bushels to the acre. The two acre 



