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Hesults of tests of varieties of potatoes. 



Variety. 



Early : 



Charles Downing 



Corona (Corona Beauty) 



Early Ohio '. 



Early Rose 



Early Hebron 



Early Electric 



Eai'ly Essex 



Juno Eating (Crane June Eating) 



Smii-ise 



Medium early : 



Beauty (Rose Beauties) 



Burbauk 



Climax 



Cream (Cream of the Field) 



Early Seneca 



Green Mountain 



La Plnnio 



Rural Kew Yorker No. 2 



Snowtlake (Late Snowflake) 



Vermont Chami)ii>u 



' Average 

 Estimated estiniat«d 



yield per 

 acre, 1891. 



Biishels. 

 171.5 

 132.0 

 144.1 

 240.0 

 261.8 

 163.4 

 165. 2 

 215.4 

 150.1 



258.7 

 170.8 

 210. 3 

 236.6 

 133.1 

 224.7 

 245.4 

 232. 7 

 225. 6 

 261.3 



yield per 

 acMi tor 

 3 years. 



Bushels. 



237.2 

 192.0 

 145.0 

 189.6 

 148.3 

 193.4 

 251. 7 

 254.5 

 195.4 



214.0 

 149.7 

 240.9 

 240. 3 

 200. 2 

 299. 8 

 164.9 

 147.5 

 265.3 

 201.7 



Date of 



ripening, 



1891. 



Aug. 4 

 Aug. 8 

 Aug. 4 

 Aug. 4 

 An;;. 12 

 Aug. 4 

 Aug. 4 

 Aug. 8 

 Aug. 12 



Aug. 10 

 Aug. 10 

 Aug. 18 

 Aug. 8 

 Aug. 12 

 Aug. 10 

 Aug. 13 

 Aug. 12 

 Aug. 12 

 Aug. 12 



Condition in 



celliir March 



6, 1891. 



Firm. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



Fairly tirm. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 

 Solid. 



Firm. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



Onions (pp. 10-23). — A list of 40 varieties tested at the station during 

 the past 3 years is given. The following are especially commended : 

 White Barletta, Large Flat White Italian, White Globe, South Port 

 Wliite Globe, Red Bermuda, Yellow Danvers, Eed Wethersfield, Giant 

 Hocca, and Prize Taker. General directions are given for the culture 

 of onions. The method of trans]>lanting onion sets grown from seed 

 in a foriting house or hotbeds has been tried at the station with favor- 

 able results. Reference is made to experiments in this line by T. 

 Grciner and AV. J. Green. The latter has published an account of his 

 work in Bulletin vol. iii, No. 9 of the Ohio Station (see Exi^eriment 

 Station Record, vol. ii, p. 005). 



Cabbac/es (j)p. 24-29). — Tabulated data and descriptive notes are 

 given for 15 varieties grown in 1891, together with a list of 20 other 

 varieties tested. The following are especially commended: Early 

 Wakefield, Newark Early Flat Dutch, Nonesuch, Strang, and Louis- 

 ville Extra Drumhead. 



Caulijioioers {\^\^. 30, 31). — A list of 30 varieties tested at the station. 

 Karly Dwarf Erfurt, Snowball, Ideal, and Carrara Rock are esx)ecially 

 commended. 



Washington Station, Bulletin No. 1, December, 1891 (pp. 15). 



History and organization, G. Lilley, Ph. D. — This includes 

 extracts from the act of the State legislature of March 9, 1891, estab- 

 lishing the Agricultural College, Experiment Station, and School of 

 Science of the State of Washington, and from the acts of Congress of 

 March 2, 1887, and August 30, 1890, and general statements regarding 

 the history, organization, equipment, and plans of work of the college 



