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HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. 



[Jan. 



Variety Test of Potatoes. Yield in Pounds from 40 Sets. 



Varibtt. 



Beauty of Hebron, 

 Bliss's Triumph, . 

 Carmen No. 1, 

 Dakota Red, 

 Dutton's Seedling, 

 Early Maine, 

 Early Rose, . 

 Early Sunrise, 

 Empire State, 

 Enormous, . 

 Fillbasket, . 

 Late Puritan, 

 Money Maker, 

 New Satisfaction, 

 Prolific Rose, 

 Restaurant, 

 Rochester Rose, . 

 Rose No. 9, . 

 Sir William, 

 State of Maine, . 

 Thorburn, . 

 Uncle Sam, . 

 Vanguard, . 

 White Elephant, . 

 Woodbury's White, 



Last year the eleven best varieties ranked in yield of 

 merchantable tubers in the following order: Rose No. 9, 

 Restaurant, Woodbury's White, Bliss's Triumph, Proline 

 Rose, Empire State, Early Maine, Dakota Red, Sir William, 

 Early Rose and Beauty of Hebron. All of these then gave 

 a product at the rate of more than 220 bushels of merchant- 

 able tubers per acre. 



This year the relative rank, as will be seen, is quite dif- 

 ferent. The yields are in general much lower. The results 

 of this year, however, owing to the blight, cannot be re- 



