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Variety Test Potatoes. — Rates of Yield per Acre — Concluded. 



Variety. 



Merchantable 

 (Bushels). 



Small 

 (Bushels). 



Pat's Choice, . 



reek's Early, . 



Prince Henry, 



Red River Triumph, 



Red River White Ohio, 



Sensation, 



Simmon's Model, . 



Snowflake, Jr., 



Steuben, . 



Sweet Home, . 



Van Oruam's Earliest, 



Voruehm, 



White Ohio, . 



217 

 223 

 206 

 208 

 156 

 248 

 319 

 252 

 268 

 140 

 197 

 185 

 146 



The growth of practically all varieties was normal and 

 healthy. The vines were sprayed twice with Bordeaux 

 mixture for prevention of blight and rot. The treatment 

 was successful, and the yield of most varieties was good. 

 One variety, Simmon's Model, gave a yield exceeding 300 

 bushels per acre. The smallest yield is that given by the 

 Clinton, — 104 bushels of merchantable tubers per acre. 

 Six varieties, mentioned in the order of their productive- 

 ness, gave jnelds of merchantable tubers at rates between 

 260 and 300 bushels per acre, viz. : Extra Early White 

 Eose, Great Divide, Steuben, Maxima, 1904, Mills' New 

 Rose Beauty. The Beauty of Hebron, which in previous 

 variety tests has given yields almost as large as any under 

 trial, takes a lower rank as the result of the test of last 

 season. 



XII. — Poultry Experiments. 



The poultry experiments of the past season have followed 

 along precisel}^ similar lines to those followed last year. 

 We are making an effort to throw light on the question as to 

 the proper selection of feeds for laying fowls. 



1. In the experiment comparing wheat with corn, animal 

 meal being the source of the animal food used, the following 



