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EXPERIMENTS WITH POTATOES 





TABLE I. —Comparison of Varieties of Potatoes. (Yield Per Acre Cal- 

 culated from Forty-eight Feet of row, and Four Pounds of Seed.) 



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55 



Variety. 



1 



2 



3 



4 



5 



6 



7 



8 



9 



10 



li 



12 



13 



14 



15 



16 



17 



18 



19 



20 



21 



22 



23 



24 



25 



26 



27 



28 



29 



30 



31 



32 



33 



34 



35 



36 



37 



3-t 



39 



40 



Uncle Sam (2 lbs. to 36 ft. of row) 



American Wonder 



Banner 



Blush 



Brownell's Winner 



Burpee's Extra Early 



Burpee's Superior 



Bill Nye 



Bracey's Rising Sun 



Carman, No. 1 



Carman, No. 3 



Champion 



Clark's No. 1 



Clay Rose 



Crown Jewel 



Country Gentleman 



Delaware 



Dewdrop Rose 



Early Harvest 



Early Market 



Early Norther 



Early Puritan 



Early Rose 



Earlv Six Weeks 



Everitt 



Early Fortune 



Early Wisconsin 



Early Thoroughbred 



Freeman 



Farmer's Alliance 



Good News 



Great Divide 



Green Mountain 



Harbinger 



Houlton Rose 



Harvest Queen 



Howe's Premium 



Honeoye Rose 



Irish Cobbler — 



Irish Daisy 



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 a 



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214 

 240 

 273 

 272 

 305 

 215 

 209 

 195 

 165 

 230 

 239 

 152 

 193 

 243 

 223 

 270 

 214 

 258 

 248 

 99 

 244 

 198 

 267 



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160 

 148 

 233 

 220 

 174 

 246 

 232 

 224 

 180 

 155 

 305 

 287 

 140 

 224 

 301 

 154 



Variety. 



41 

 12 

 43 

 44 

 45 

 16 

 47 

 is 

 III 

 50 

 51 

 52 

 53 

 51 

 55 

 56 

 57 

 58 

 59 

 60 

 61 

 62 

 63 

 64 

 65 

 66 

 67 

 68 

 69 

 Vll 

 71 

 72 

 73 

 71 

 75 

 76 

 77 

 7* 

 79 

 80 



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 o 



ea 

 u 



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King of the Roses 309 



Koshkonong 227 



Late Puritan 316 



Leonard's Favorite 307 



Maggie Murphy 201 



Money Maker 223 



Mill'sEndurance 118 



New Queen 289 



Ohio Jr 256 



Orphan | 240 



Parker's Market i 255 



Polaris 242 



Peerless Jr 219 



Prize Taker ! 274 



237 

 315 

 342 

 453 

 263 

 303 

 209 

 247 

 149 

 300 

 354 

 229 

 243 

 271 

 394 

 325 

 171 

 307 

 323 

 399 

 257 

 329 

 184 

 373 

 232 

 375 



Pride of Ireland 



Queen of the Valley 



Quick Crop 



Reeve's Rose 



Rochester Rose 



Rupert's Perfection 



Rutland Rose : 



Rural New Yorker, No. 2.. 



Rose, No. 9 



Seneca Beauty 



Sir William 



Somerset 



Salzer's World's Fair 



Victor Rose 



Vick's Perfection 



Vaughan 



Vick's Advancer 



White Star 



White Mountain 



White Rose 



Wilson's Fair Choice 



Woodhull's Seedling 



World's Fair 



Woodburv White 



White Ohio 



Governor Rusk 



The potato plot was a good loam soil, grading into a light clay 

 towards the south and east. A crop of millet was grown upon 

 the land in 1895, and potatoes in 1894. In the spring of 1896 

 a light coating of cow manure and a heavy application of a com- 

 plete potato fertilizer were spread upon the plot. The land was 

 furrowed, and the potato seed cut in the ordinary manner, two 

 or three eyes to each piece, and two pieces dropped every two 

 feet. At the second hoeing, the rows were partly hilled. After 



