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grower, and must be used more for the purpose of 

 deciding what might be well to try than to follow 

 the suggestions blindly. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE 



In "Bulletin 3" of the New Hampshire Experi- 

 ment Station is the following: 



"As our New England markets demand a round 

 or oblong white potato, we recommend for main 

 crop the planting of such varieties as the Green 

 Mountain and Delaware, or varieties that closely 

 resemble them. 



"As seedsmen are each year introducing and 

 selling at fabulous prices new and untried varieties, 

 the most of which are soon dropped from their 

 catalogues and forgotten, we advise growers to de- 

 pend on standard sorts that have been fully tested 

 and found adapted to their soil and market, and 

 allow their experiment station to test the novelties 

 for them, thus preventing a large annual waste of 

 time and money. " 



OHIO 



That the Ohio Experiment Station has tested 

 hundreds of varieties of potatoes and is yet con- 

 tinuing this work is reported in "Bulletin 218." 



"Many new varieties are constantly being offered 

 by originators, introducers, or dealers in different 

 parts of the country. A few of these prove of 

 value; an occasional one is excellent; many are 

 quite inferior to our already well known and 

 standard kinds. The question of varieties is one 

 that cannot be treated in a general way with equal 



