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tatoes this year, and among the new ones per- 

 haps two or three are showing some very good 

 points. One tuber I got from America I am afraid 

 will be of no use here. It has a pale green haulm 

 with white flowers and much too floriferous for 

 a new potato. 



"I have two tubers growing which were sent to 

 me by a firm in Scotland, asking me to plant them 

 both whole. I did so, one yard apart, and these 

 two rows make a fine picture. The haulm is 

 splendid, and although the tubers were, as I say, 

 planted three feet apart, the haulms met on July 

 1st. 



"On the other hand, just lately, I had the pleas- 

 ure of paying $37.40 for a few of the new kind that 

 I am afraid are not worth 7 pence-ha'penny. 

 Early Puritan, Duke of York, Sharp's Express, and 

 Eclipse are the best early for earliest market pur- 

 poses, and the grand old Up-to-Date is still the 

 best main crop we have, but Ever Good, Royal 

 Kidney, and Northern Star are largely grown for 

 main crop in Lincolnshire. The finest quality 

 of all for eating is the old Clarke main crop, now 

 grown under many other names, such as Lang- 

 worthy, East Anglian, etc. This potato grows 

 well and produces a fairly good yield on good po- 

 tato land, but on naturally poor land, no matter 

 how well it is manured, it will not do so well. 



"My potatoes this year I think look as well as 

 I have ever had them. I have about thirty acres 

 of Eclipse growing from seed direct from Scotland, 

 and I think if you saw them you would say they 

 are a grand sight. 



"As to pigs, I still keep my usual quantity, 120 

 to 150, and I am always breeding and always feed- 

 ing all the year round. I am a member of the 



