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HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. 



[Jan. 



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



Varibtt. 



Mercbantable 

 Tubers. 



SmaU 

 Tubers. 



Beauty of Hebron, 

 Bliss's Triumph, . 

 Carmeu No. 1, 

 Dakota Red, 

 Button'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, 



33.40 

 20.40 

 23.40 

 19.20 

 32.20 

 21.20 

 28.00 

 26.40 

 12.40 

 36.80 

 37.60 

 26.80 

 26.60 

 26.60 

 28.20 

 34.80 

 29.60 

 34.00 

 26.80 

 34.00 

 35.80 

 28.40 

 31.80 

 40.20 

 35.90 



7.00 

 9.60 

 12.80 

 10.80 

 15.20 

 2.80 

 9.00 

 10.80 

 7.60 

 4.20 

 5.60 

 9.60 

 7.40 

 6.00 

 8.00 

 7.60 

 8.80 

 5.20 

 6.20 

 4.80 

 6.40 

 3.80 

 9.00 

 8.00 

 5.00 



Last year the eleven best varieties ranked in yield of 

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

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

 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- 



