Potatoes for Seed. 115 



Perhaps your readers remember I last spring promised to 

 make such experiments and communicate the results to the 

 Farmer. 



I carefully selected a piece of ground of even soil, consist- 

 ing of 16 rows of 20 hills each. I manured it in the hill as 

 evenly as possible. I then weighed the seed and planted 

 eight rows, commencing on one side, each row with different 

 seed, in the order observed in the tables below. I then 

 planted the eight remaining rows, commencing on the other 

 side in the same order, so that if my experiment ground were 

 better on one side than it were on the other I should be likely, 

 from a combined experiment, to obtain a fair result. 



I shall give the results of the experiments separately, that 

 your readers may see there exists a similarity in them. 



I dug, counted, and weighed separately, the product of each 

 row, and after deducting the weight of the seed, as was very 

 important in order to arrive at a correct conclusion, as the 

 weight of the seed varied from 7J- to 19 J Ibs. I found the 

 result exactly as follows. 



FIRST EXPERIMENT. 



Weight.. No. per 60 Ibs. 



Seed ends, 54 274 



Middles, 49| 316 



Bute, 58 317 



Large whole, 67 286 



Small whole, 62 241 



Cut longintudinally 57 234 



Double sed, 56 329 



Drills, 61J 310 



