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White Elephant that I think very highly of ; that is, this year it has been less subject to 

 the attack of the potato beetle than an other potato I have ever seen grow. That insect 

 will eat up other varieties around it and never touch it. 



Mr. Morris. — I have grown the Deinpsey potato. I can only speak of it in com- 

 parison with the Beauty of Hebron, the St. Patrick, and the White Elephant. The 

 Beauty of Hebron is a very nice potato, one of the best in quality, I think, I have ever 

 known ; but it is a very shy cropper. The St. Patrick would come next in cropping, and 

 the Dempsey would about compare with that. It is a far better cropper than the Beauty 

 of Hebron. But the White Elephant outdistances the whole of them in cropping. I 

 grew the White Elephant on three different pieces of ground. One was an old fence 

 row. There they grew pointed. One specimen of them weighed three pound six ounces. 

 Some that grew on another piece of ground grew as nice a shape as could be. 



Mr. Saunders. — I grew the Dempsey potato last year. I planted a row of them 

 alongside the Early Rose, subject to the same treatment and in the same soil, and they 

 yielded, I should judge, fully as much again in weight of crop, and the potatoes were a 

 better size and smoother — better in every way. I found them very good indeed. I think 

 that variety is a decided acquisition in the potato line. This last year was particularly 

 unfavourable for growing potatoes with us. 



Mr. BucKE.— I think we are not going to have any potato come to stay with us. 

 It seems to me that, after a few years, every potato we get runs out. Any person who 

 can remember the potatoes of thirty or forty years ago will know that they are all gone. 

 We are always requiring new varieties ; and for my part, I have given up all idea of 

 having any standard potato. I think any person who brings out a new potato deserves 

 the thanks of the country for so doing. 



Mr. Woodward. — Don't you think the Early Rose is just as good now as it ever 

 was? 



Mr. BuCKE. — Yes ; I think it is. It has been in about ten years. I think in a few 

 years it will disappear. 



Mr. Beall. — A year ago when I was here I spoke of a peculiarity connected with 

 my Beauty of Hebrons — that is, that they were scabby — and I could not assign any 

 reason for it. This year I got a few nice clean potatoes, and I put them in these sample 

 rows where I put the Dempsey potatoes and the Early Rose. They had the same culti- 

 vation, the same manure, and the same treatment in every way, and they came out more 

 scabby than ever. There was nothing of the kind on either of the other potatoes. I 

 forgot to state that the Dempsey s I raised were nearly all of medium size. I had not one 

 perhaps as large as the quarter of the part of the seed I got. 



Mr. BucKE. — I think the scabbiness of the potatoes can easily be accounted for. 

 There is only one true way to grow potatoes, and that is on sod. If they are grown on 

 newly manured land they are sure to be scabby. 



Mr. Dempsey. — This Dempsey potato that we have been speaking of is a seedling of 

 my own. I showed in Hamilton — I think it was eight years ago last fall — two hundred 

 varieties of new potatoes of my own production, and this is the only one that I thought 

 worthy to continue in cultivation. It is a seedling of the Early Rose crossed with the 

 Early Goodrich. The first year it was grown — I remember .speaking of this before ; 

 and parties even questioned the truthfulness of my assertion — we obtained from seed the 

 full-sized potato ; but this variety was red throughout the inside as ever you saw a beet. 

 We cultivated it the next year, and when we came to split the potatoes we saw 

 that some of them were becoming whiter. We kept selecting the whiter potatoes, and it 

 took us two or three years to establish the character it now pos.sesses. I have compared 

 it with several new varieties that I have had, and I have never found a variety that 

 would beat it in yielding. I have never found a variety yet that will cook equal to it, 

 aud I feel perfectly satisfied still to stick to it. It was not sent out last year to make 

 money ; because it cost the parties nothing ; and I have no object in making money out 

 of it now. The potatoes are always a medium size ; but the crop is abundant. They are 

 always large enough for cooking purposes — I mean the large size. You scarcely find an 

 overgrown one. They are ovate in form. The seed eyes are usually found only on one 

 .side of the potato, and very few in number. We had no trouble whatever in regard to 



