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potatoes. As in the previous experiment, large and small whole pota- 

 toes, quarters, and one-eye pieces were planted. One whole tuber or 

 one piece was placed in each hill. The hills were 2 feet apart and the 

 rows 2^ feet apart. 



The early varieties were Beauty of Hebron and New Queen ; the late 

 varieties were Dandy and Empire State. Severe storms damaged the 

 early potatoes, so tliat the record for that part of the experiment is in- 

 complete. The actual yiekls of potatoes in pounds, and the general 

 averages of results computed in bushels per acre, are stated in two 

 tables. The results agree with those recorded in Bulletin No. 2 of the 

 station in showing that the greater the quantity of seed potato planted, 

 the greater the total yield and the yield of merchantable tubers, but 

 it is also indicated that very large seed is not profitable ; the most 

 profitable results were obtained where whole tubers of the size of an 

 egg were used. " The smaller the seed used, and the more it is cut, the 

 less the probability of getting a full stand, and when the seed is cut to 

 a single eye this increase of missing hills very materially reduces the 

 crop." 



Comparisonof seed potatoes from Vermont and Maryland (pp. 56-59). — 

 With a view to learning something of the relative merits of potatoes 

 grown from Southern and Northern seed, the Maryland and Vermont 

 Stations exchanged seed and made duplicate plantings at both places 

 of several varieties which each station had grown in 1888. The yields 

 in both places for each kind of seed of 8 varieties are given in tables, 

 as well as the yields for each kind of seed for 8 additional varieties 

 tried at the Vermont Station. The season was very unfavorable for 

 potatoes in both places. The differences in yield, as shown in tables, 

 favor the seed grown in Vermont. 



General notes on vegetables (pp. 60-65). — Brief notes are given on a 

 number of varieties of beans, carrots, cabbages, lettuce, peas, peppers, 

 pumpkius, and squashes, and tabulated notes on 30 varieties of radishes 

 and 11 of turnips. 



Orchard and smaU fruits (p. 66). — Brief mention is made of the growth 

 of the orchard and small fruits planted at the station. 



Eeport of chemist H. J. Patterson, B. S. (pp. 67-94).— During 

 1889, 488 samples were received at the laboratory and filassified as fol- 

 lows: " tomatoes, 356 ; fertilizing materials, 47; marls, 32; soils, 24; 

 fodders, 22; butters, 3, and miscellaneous, 4. * * * The analyses 

 of most of these samples have been completed, and on all of them some 

 work has been done." 



The report contains articles on the following subjects : (1) chemical 

 composition of tomatoes ; (2) the effect of fertilizers on the composition 

 of tomatoes; (3) tomato variation and weather changes; (4) compari- 

 son of amounts of sugar and acids in the fresh and air dried substance 

 of the tomato; (5) marls; (6) soils; (7) investigation on the determi- 

 nation of moisture in air-dried feeding stuffs. 



