85 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 
2 bushels for 6 quarts planted; fair tubers. Ruby ripe in 8 days; yield 2 barrels for 
8 quarts planted; very good potatoes. Hebron, about same as above, rather earlier 
and tubers best of all. Another report: Victor gave 1 bushel for 1 quart planted; 
some of the tubers weighed 14 pounds; pinkskinandmealy. Hebron gaye 355 pounds 
for 6 quarts planted, good quality; other reports about same, say less liable to bugs 
than others. Beauty of Hebron 91 pounds for 1 quart. 
WEST VIRGINIA.—One report states Victor ripe in 90 daysfrom planting; yield fair; 
tubers dry and mealy; best ever grown here. Alpha ripe in 70 days, very early, but 
flavor appeared rather strong. Beauty of Hebronripe in 100 days; rank grower, good 
bearer, but not quite equal to the Victor. No other reports from this State on potatoes. 
NORTH CAROLINA.—Report states the Alpha planted same day as Early. Rose, but is 
much more forward, vigorous, and now (May 17) tubers big as hen’s eggs. Another: 
All four varieties were planted 9 days after the Rose, but they came forward earlier, 
with fine tubers. One other: Ruby, planted February 20, cut down by frost on the 23d, 
on March 25 came up again; dug June 21; 248 pounds for4 pounds planted. Another: 
Victor planted February 20, bloomed May 1; ripe in 100 days from planting; large 
yield and fine flavor for the tabie. Another: Beauty of Hebron planted April 1, 
bloomed May 1; ripe in 100 days from planting; the earliest of all; yield 510 pounds 
for 8 pounds planted; superior quality. Another says, not a good Leeper. 
SoutH Carorma.—Reports state that the Victor and Alpha are far ahead of Early 
Rose; good and rich; very fine for the table; large and nice. Another: Ruby, vigor- 
ous; blooms in 40 days, and ripe in 75 days from planting; yield prolific, 210 pounds 
from 1 quart of seed; excellent, and earlierthan the Rose. Ancther: Beauty of Hebron 
the largest yield of all; good as any for ihe table; ripe in 90 days from planting. 
Another: planted 6 potatoes April 15; grew finely; yield 4 bushels, tubers fine flavor. 
Victor planted February 12; healthy growth; blossomed April 20, ripe in 105 days; 
yield, rate of 14,000 pounds per acre—250 bushels. Second crop can be obtained if 
planted early. 
GrEoRGIA.—Report says all four varieties sent yield well, give good satisfaction, and 
more of them wanted. Beauty of Hebron planted March 9; ready for table May 1; 
yield larger than any other. One says Hebron ripened in 50 days. Alpha planted 
February 15, dug April 15. Ruby planted February 15, dug May 30. Beauty of He- 
bron planted March 1; poor yield and quality. One report says none of these excel 
the Early Rose. Another report deelares them earlier than the Rose and superior to 
any ever grown here, One report says tubers of the Hebron weighed 5 ounces, and 
very fine. 
FLorija.—The Victor ripens here in 65 to 90 days, yield ranging from 10 to 30 for 
1 planted. Victor ripens in 60 to 100 days, yield surpassing all others; mealy and 
good, equal to the Early Rose, Alpha earlier than Victor; delicate; not so prolific; 
some rot. Ruby about same as above, more prolific, and no rot. Beauty of Hebron 
planted March 7, ripens July 1, yield best of all, and superior for table. Hebron grew 
well and yielded abundantly. November best time to plant potatoes here. 
Mississippi—Reports all four, Victor, Alpha, Ruby, and Beauty of Hebron, healthy, 
early, prolific, and well suited to this climate and soil, but Victor preferred. Another: 
Ruby the earliest and best for table. Another: Alpha earlier than Victor and finer 
flavor. Another: Beauty of Hebron planted February 28, bloomed April 20, ripe in 90 
days, yield larger than any other: this and others a great acquisition, and thanks to 
the department for them. Another: The best ever grown here; early, thrifty, and 
goodflavor. Hebron gave 54 pounds for i planted; excel all others here. Onoreport 
says second plantings generally fail. 
Lovuistana.—One report from this State say that Ruby is best of all in excellence; 
that Alpha is the most continuous bearer; Beauty cf Hebron a vigorous grower; Victor 
ripe in 90 days after pladting; yield about same as Hebron. 
TEXAS.—Reporis show the four varieties sent out from the department are improyve- 
ments on those commonly planted; Victor, vigorous, bloomed April 20, ripe in 95 days, 
yield twice as much as Early Rose, 350 pounds for 8 quarts planted, mealy and good, 
purple skins; Alpha, foliage more delicate, yield 115 pounds for 7 quarts planted, 
mealy and fine flayer; Ruby, planted February 11, dug on May 2, yield 24 pounds for 
2 pounds planted, smooth thin skin, best of the three; Beanty of Hebron, grew vig- 
orously, bloomed in 50 days, and ripened in 90 days from planting, yield 400 pounds 
from & quarts seed, mealy and fine for the table, about 34 for one. 
KENTUCKY.—One report: All the potatoes sent out here by the department excel 
our common varieties grown here; Beauty of Hebron, planted in March 14 pounds, in 
July dugS0 pounds very finetubers. Another: 50 pounds from 1 planted; Victor, early, 
large yield, mealy, fine flavor. Another: 2 bushels from 2 quarts; Alpha, fit for table 
in 90 days, yield 1 bushel from 2 quaris; Ruby, reports about same as Alpha. One 
report says Victor ripened in 120 days, yield 371 pounds for 12 pounds planted ; Alpha 
ripened in same time, yield 409 pounds, superior to ail others; Ruby ripens in same 
time, yield 403 ponnds: Beauty of Hebrop ripened in 110 days, small yield, 167 pounds, 
poi so goud as ibe Gtinets. 
