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Times says that he has grown over six hundred bushels of potatoes, 

 one hundred and fifty bushels of shelled corn, eighty bushels of 

 oats, fifty bushels of wheat, and five tons of hay per acre, and these 

 large yields have been considerably exceeded by other farmers. 

 The largest yield of potatoes, however, tlie ag. editor of the Times 

 goes on to say, deseves to be credited to the editor of the Rural 

 New-YorJcer, who, in his experimental grounds, has made the fol- 

 lowing yields : 524 bushels, 540, 544, 726, 877, 998, 1,050, 1,075, 

 1,189, and 1,391 bushels per acre, or at that rate per acre, in 

 several plots, each of different varieties, besides many others vary- 

 ing from below 500 to above that number, the largest, however, 

 being 1,391 bushels. The ground was fertilized by a mixture of 

 fertilizers oiily and no manure, and containing every element of 

 plant food, including salt, lime, potash salts, ammonia salts, super- 

 phosphate of lime, bone flour, and others. The variations show 

 satisfactorily that much depends upon the kind of potato grown. 

 The above notes were not copied from the R. N.-Y., but are the 

 result of the observations of the editor of the N. Y. Times, made 

 at the Rural grounds. 



SALT FOE ASPAKAGUS. 



Parker Earle tried salt to kill grubs in asparagus beds, but 

 found it to kill weeds and most of the asparagus, while the grubs 

 seemed to enjoy the application, and he found it of little value as 

 a manure. This is in accordance with the experience of other cul- 

 tivators, and also of those who live near the salt air of the sea, 

 while others find it quite useful when applied at the rate of forty 

 or sixty pounds to the square rod. These facts show the impor- 

 tance of trying the experiment in different and varying localities. 

 So with superphosphates, which have generally proved valuable for 

 asparagus, but in some places they have little or no effect. 



TOMATOES. 



The Cardinal, a so-called new variety, producing large bright, 

 scarlet fruit, which is usually nearly or quite smooth, but quite late 

 in ripening. The Favorite (Livingstones Favorite), is medium in 

 season, and this he regards as its greatest fault. The New Eed Apple 

 yields medium to large, very smooth fruits, which matured this sea- 

 son earlier than either of the above sorts. The Perfection (Living- 

 stones Perfection) produces medium to large, very deep red fruits, 

 usually smooth, but often rough at the blossom end. In season 

 about the same as the Favorite. 



The Paragon yields very smooth, medium to small scarlet 



