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hold und help grind.) And as to the strawberry, I shall be disap) di 
M. W. Cook, chairman of the committee to visit Mr. John Hart’s seedlin 
June, doesnot undertake to show that the numerous seedling strawberry gro 
down east, who are bringing to the front strawberries that rival the e 
apple in size, will have to look well to their laurels, or they are all distan 
Minnesota seedling. While we should not be unmindful, or ungrateful 
favors from abroad, in the shape of new varieties of the Irish potato at one d 
per pound, yet as a matter of economy and profit, I think it would be we 
experiment with new seedlings of our own. Nees: 
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Trial of New Varieties. _ * er . 
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To go back to the potatoes distributed from you to the members of our county 
Horticultural Society, I will say that I found open and willing hands for all 
except the Eureka, Excelsior, and Fluke. These I planted myself, and am highly 
pleased with the result. The Excelsiur is a potato of high excellence for the 
table, as its name would imply. Among the new varieties on trial the past sea- 
son, I wish to mention the Burbank as one of the best with me; planted half a 
bushel and dug about twenty-five, and, had we succeeded in keeping off the 
Colorado beetle, think the yield would have been nearly doubled. I also wish to. 
mention a very fair late potato, Breese’s Prolific. Some six or eight years ago, 
as I was*passing a grocery store in our city, I saw a basket of these potatoes 
turned up to the full exposure of the sun, and, as it was about the first of June, 
they had probably’ been so exposed at least a month, until they had turned quite 
green, and had sprouted and put out in leaf. I took them and cut them into 
pieces of one and two eyes each, and planted on land that had never been 
manured; had been cultivated and cropped six years; and from this bushel of 
potatoes I gathered a trifle over over one hundred. I attributed this large yield 
partly to the fact of their having been so long exposed to the sun. 
Last fall I dug my first crop of potatoes from the seed, and for aught I know 
they are all right, but to my inexperienced eye they certainly look like ‘‘ small 
potatoes.’’ 
And now, in conclusion, if fortune should favor me in the pursuit of this new 
enterprise, and I should chance to strike a bonanza, you may expect to hear 
from me again. 
Respectfully yours, 
A. W. SIAS. 
DISCUSSION. 
Results with New Varieties, 
Prof. Lacy gave the result of experiments with potatoes on the 
State Experimental Farm, as detailed in the following tables: 
