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full grown August 4. Total yield six bushels ; medium size ; 

 all perfectly sound ; excellent quality. 



No. 3. On deeply ploughed old land. Domestic guano in 

 the hill. Planted, June 22, small whole potatoes. Shoots broke 

 ground in seven days ; in blossom July 28. Vines struck by 

 the drought August 12. Tubers tlien the size of ordinary hen's 

 eggs, with average of seven in each hill. 



Results : Single eyes will produce as much in iveig-ht as 

 whole potatoes, which reduces the required amount of seed to 

 four bushels per acre. Covering deeply is conducive to sound- 

 ness, and insures a greater yield. Strong manures, like night 

 soil, are not promotive of disease. The quicker the growth the 

 better the quality. J. H. Temple, Chairman. 



HAMPSHIRE, F.'^ANKLIN AND HAMPDEN. 



Statement of C. C. Thompson, Middlefield. 

 Potatoes : The Massasoit. — This variety, a sample of which 

 was exhibited at your fair, will compare favorably with the best 

 known table potatoes. And no variety, of so fine a grain has 

 yet come within my knowledge, that produces so abundantly. 

 It resembles the Harrison in appearance, but is much superior 

 in quality, and matures earlier, ripening with the Garnet Chili 

 and Bresee's Prolific. The soil on which I have grown the 

 present crop is a deep, gravelly loam, — moderately dry, and 

 much less affected by drought than most of the land in this 

 vicinity. It was cropped in 18G8 with potatoes, Harrison being 

 the variety, and produced about 130 bushels. For fertilizers I 

 used ten loads, thirty bushels to the load, of stable manure 

 taken from the barn cellar, which I consider worth a quarter 

 more than the same bulk, after having received the loashing^ 

 and rinsing of .the spring rains ; also a large spoonful of phos- 

 phate in a hill. The land was ploughed deep, the manure 

 spread upon the furrows and thoroughly incorporated with the 

 soil by dragging. Crop of 1869, improved Long Orange Carrot 

 seed, 400 pounds, manured as 1868 with the exception of the 

 pbosphate. The crop of 1870 was 223 bushels of 60 pounds 

 each, or 13,380 pounds, with very little indication of disease. 

 I plant in rows three feet by two and a half, drop upon the sur- 

 face, two and three eyes to the hill. Level culture will not 



