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of season for planting potatoes of varying types, the 

 following remarks on an experiment conducted by our- 

 selves, and communicated to the Journal of the Koyal 

 Agricultural Society, third series, Vol. 2, Part IV., by 

 Mr. George Maiden, show that there is much to be 

 borne in mind : 



EXPERIMENTS IN THE PLANTING OF POTATOES. 



Certain statements as to the advisability of the late planting of 

 potatoes having appeared in some of the daily papers, and being 

 at direct variance with our personal experience in the cultiva- 

 tion of potatoes on a large scale, it occurred to us to conduct 

 some experiments on our farms at Cardington in order to 

 find what would be the exact result of such an investigation. 



With that idea one side of an open field, which had previously 

 been prepared for potatoes, and upon the remainder of which 

 a crop of Imperators was subsequently grown, was set aside. 

 The land was excellently adapted for the requirements of the 

 crop, being well drained and of a uniform description of light 

 oam, resting on a gravel subsoil. An even dressing of about 

 15 tons to the acre of good farmyard dung had been put on 

 and ploughed in during the autumn, and the land remained 

 untouched through winter. In the early spring the field 

 received a thorough working, and was brought down to a deep 

 tilth. Drill-marks two feet apart were made right through 

 the land which had to be subsequently planted, and plots of 

 one pole .each were carefully marked off. 



The fourteen varieties of seed potatoes selected were of the 

 ordinary seed size and had been grown on the farm in the 

 previous year ; they included those most favoured by growers 

 and salesmen as well as others not so well known. The Thor- 

 burn is an American variety hardly distinguishable from the 

 Beauty of Hebron. The Duke of Albany is of a type to which 



