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In regard to varieties for home use: For an extra earlj-. the Ohio 

 has maintained the lead for a long tiine, but we find Burpee's Early 

 to equal it in earliness and, bj- far, superior in yield and qualit}'. 

 Lee's Favorite yields well, and is of fine quality and a week or two later- 

 We anticipate great things from the much lauded Freeman, both 

 for home and market purposes. For general crop and for market 

 purposes we should grow but one kind, and should select some 

 vigorous and productive long white varietj'; and which of them is 

 most profitable under all conclusions, it would be hard to say. We 

 have succeeded well with the White Star and shall hold to it until 

 we find a better one and shall continue to test the most promising 

 new ones until we find it. Both the Potenta and Rural New Yorker 

 have made manj^ friends in the last two j-ears, and the first of these 

 is all that could be desired for table and keeping quantities; both 

 yield well, but are too round to sell well for shipment; while the 

 Stars are too long and slim. But both ma}" be improved to a limi- 

 ted extent by a careful selection of the best formed tubers for seed 

 purposes. 



Dr. Frisselle: I am very much interested in Mr. Wilcox' 

 paper on potato growing. I was up in the northern part of 

 the state early in the winter, and there I found to my surprise 

 the people were almost entirely engaged in potato culture, and 

 they were making a very good thing of it. I found the hotels 

 in those towns full of potato buyers from the South, from St. 

 Liouis. They were shipping potatoes from those points en- 

 tirely to the South, and the farmers were making a very good 

 thing of it. selling them for thirty-five to forty cents per 

 bushel; and all along the stations there were immense store- 

 houses built to protect the potatoes from frost. They were 

 brought there by farmers for a distance of ten to fifteen miles 

 and sold to those buyers, who shipped them South. I was sur- 

 prised to learn that there was such an enormous amount of po- 

 tatoes shipped from this state to the South, and I was also 

 surprised to learn that they were shipped there for seed. One 

 agent told me that the seed from Minnesota was the only seed 

 they used in Missouri for growing potatoes. They cannot 

 use their own seed at all. 



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W. G. BEARDSLEY, ST. LOUIS PARK. 



I was very much surprised when I saw mj- name on that com- 

 mittee, and I must saj" that I have been negligent in the dutj' of pre- 

 paring a report on that subject, but I trust that Brother Sampson 

 ^\"ill have a paper that will cover all points necessar}-. 



I will sa3' that our season has been a good deal like the fruit sea- 

 son; it has been rather against us in one sense of the word. We 



