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I have some trees that are thirty-five years old, and they are still 

 bearing- well. 



Prof, Green: There has been some question about the Northwest- 

 ern Greening never blighting. Four years ago Mr. Spring sent me 

 specimens of four trees. I planted them in our orchard, and some 

 of them blighted quite a little. They not only blighted, but they 

 were too tender for us. 



WHAT KINDS OF POTATOES HAVE PROVED THE 

 MOST VALUABLE? 



J. C. WALKER, ROSE CREEK. 



I shall endeavor to answer this question put to me by our worthy 

 secretary. I have grown the Snowflake, Burbank, White Elephanti 

 Empire State, New York Rural and Mayflower, for late varieties, 

 and for early, the Early Rose, Early Sunrise and the Beauty of Hebron. 

 The last named variety is the most valuable for early, never yield- 

 ing less than 300 bushels to the acre, and even more, of the very best 

 table potatoes. I have grown the New York Rural side by side with 

 the Mayflower for several years, and the Mayflower has proved the 

 most valuable potato, having produced from 300 to 400 bushels per 

 acre of marketible potatoes, and also many of second size that will 

 do well for seed the next season. 



I have discarded all varieties except the Mayflower and Beauty of 

 Hebron. The last two named have proved the most valuable. I 

 plant the Mayflower three and one-half feet ape rt each way, and 

 the Beauty of Hebron three feet apart in drills. Each kind com- 

 pletely covers the ground with vines. 



Mr. Taylor: On what kind of soil do you grow your 

 potatoes? 



Mr. Walker: On sandy loam with streaks of black loam. I 

 generally get the best yield on the darker soil. 



Mr. Bunnell: I would like to know how he cuts his potatoes. 



Mr. Walker: More than forty years ago when I lived in 

 Wisconsin, when we paid §1.50 a bushel for seed, and it was 

 quite profitable to raise seed, I recollect reading that small 

 tubers would produce good seed, and I proved that to be 

 correct. I adopted a plan, probably fifteen years ago, of cutting 

 the seed end of small potatoes, and I have never failed to get a 

 profitable yield. There is only one thing that we have to 

 guard against in growing potatoes. Small ones have as many 

 eyes as large ones, and some people have an idea that because 

 the potatoes are small they must jjut in much seed, but we 

 should put in only three eyes to the hill. It has been said that 

 small potatoes do not produce large ones. Potatoes are differ- 

 ent from almost anything else, because our finest tubers are 

 grown from seed in the first place. The only thing to guard 



