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the season as the last week or two in May, the average of all 

 varieties having fallen to about 84 cwt. per acre, and the later 

 varieties, under these circumstances, doing very much better 

 than the others. But it was from the subsequent plantings 

 that by far the greater proportionate drop took place, the yield 

 of those planted on June 14 falling to 61 cwt., and, as before 

 stated, to 26 cwt. from the last planting. 



The four first earlies planted on May 31 averaged rather less 

 than 67 cwt. per acre ; the four second earlies excluding those 

 light croppers the Village Blacksmith averaged rather over 

 83 cwt. per acre ; and the five main croppers averaged slightly 

 in excess of 111 cwt. As there is no prospect of earlies, or even 

 of second earlies, planted so late, maturing sufficiently early to 

 catch any special price either when fully matured or when dug 

 green, these results would show the necessity of planting a main- 

 crop variety when it is imperative to plant at all so late in the 

 season, as under hardly any conceivable circumstance can a 

 crop of 67 cwt. be expected to pay, whereas 111 cwt. per acre, 

 the yield of the late varieties, should not be a losing crop. 



Again, taking the plantings made on June 14, the average 

 yield of the first earlies had fallen to a little under 39 cwt, the 

 second earlies to 59 cwt., and the late varieties to 85 cwt. None 

 of these average results can pay ; but one variety, the Impera- 

 tor, gave the extraordinary yield of 134 cwt. per acre more 

 than 2^r tons in excess of any other variety, and which, had it 

 not been for the good results we have repeatedly obtained with 

 this variety from late plantings (for instance, last year we 

 planted twenty acres of them after May 20, which averaged 



7 tons per acre all round, and in some places ran to more than 



8 tbns), we could hardly have believed to have been possible. 

 The poor results obtained from every variety of those planted 

 on June 28 show planting at that time, under any and all 

 circumstances, to be totally out of the question. 



The foregoing results, although detailed for one season only 



