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Variety Test Potatoes, etc. — Concliulod. 



* 20 hills only grown. 



Thirty-six varieties produce a yield of 55 pounds or over 

 of large potatoes from forty hills when mature, this yield 

 being at the rate of about 333 bushels per acre. These 

 varieties are the following: Burr's No. 1, 351.5; Button's 

 Seedling, 363.7; Beauty of Hebron, 393.9; Early Rose, 

 351.5 ; Enormous, 397 ; Fillbasket, 416.2 ; Howard, 403.1 ; 

 Late Puritan, 336.4 ; Leonard Rose, 345.6 ; Lincoln, 357.6 ; 

 Montana Wonder, 347 ; Penn Manor, 339.4 ; Prolific Rose, 

 351.5; Reeve's Rose, 345.5; Restaurant, 339.4; Seneca 

 Beauty, 345.5; State of Maine, 333.4 ; Thorburn, 357.6; 

 Vanguard, 381.8; Vigorosa, 339.4; AVashington, 404.6; 

 White Elephant, 406 J ; Early Andees,* 509.1; Early 

 Dawn,* 509.1 ; Salzer's Earliest,* 434.4 ; Triumph,* 460.7. 



Eleven of these varieties s^ave at the earlier diffiyino; 40 

 pounds or over of large potatoes, which is at the rate of 

 aI)out 240 bushels per acre. These varieties are : Burr's 

 No. 1, 262.1 ; Button's Seedling, 298.5 ; Beauty of Hebron, 

 287.9; Early Rose, 263.6; Enormous, 275.8; Howard, 

 275.8 ; Montana Wonder, 2()0.6 ; Peiiii Manor, 284.9 ; Pro- 

 lific Rose, 257.6; Vanguard, 277.6; Vigorosa, 294. 



• Quantity grown less than 40 sets. 



