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heaping full of potatoes from that oue pound. The next 

 year, I believe I planted an acre with that barrel. At the 

 time of planting, some of them had sprouts two inches long. 

 Those sprouts naturally fell off. I told some of my men to 

 save them, and I set some of them in my garden, as nicely as 

 I would a cabbage-plant. They all grew, and I raised five 

 bushels. I might have raised twenty bushels if my man had 

 set them out as I told him to. He set them out, and covered 

 them as you would a row of pease. 



Mr. Slade. Has Mr. Goodale noticed any difference 

 between the result in planting his seed from the eye-end, the 

 butt-end or the middle ? 



Mr. Goodale. I never have carried on any experiments 

 in selecting. I use the middle, the eye-end and the butt- 

 end. 



Mr. Stone. I wish to ask my friend Lewis if he can 

 relate any experience in New York State? I think he can 

 tell us something about raising potatoes. 



Mr. Lewis. I hardly know what to say, gentlemen. I 

 think that since the people of this Connnonwealth have 

 become such great bores, they can bear bigger stories than 

 they used to. I think we should not have heard these big 

 stories about the yield of potatoes, if it had not been for the 

 Tunnel, but still it may not make any difference. I under- 

 stand that Mr. Stone wants me to repeat what I said last 

 winter, I believe, in regard to fertilizing some beets. I 

 tried some experiments with hen-manure. I have used it for 

 twenty-seven years on root-crops, in every conceivable way, 

 and on one occasion I mixed a bushel of hen-manure with 

 nine bushels, I think, of muck, and I used this on my beet- 

 crop, and estimated that I got ten tons for a bushel of hen- 

 manure. Now, this will beat all your potato yields, and 

 the Tunnel, too. 



I have been using some of the refuse salt from the salt- 

 works at Syracuse, this year, and I think that for every four 

 or five bushels sown, I have got ten additional tons of beets. 

 I have sown about four or five bushels per acre of this refuse 

 salt, and as near as I can estimate, the difference between the 

 crop where it was sown and where it was not sown, it has 

 given me just about ten tons per acre. It is wonderful. I 



