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THIRD POTATO REPORT 



TESTS OF VARIETIES IN 1 898 



For a description of the varieties numbering from i to So 

 inclusive, the reader is referred to Bulletin 41. For the yield 

 of all varieties grown in 1897, see Bulletin No. 48, Ninth 

 Annual Report. As no descriptions of varieties above No. 80 

 have been given, they appear in this report beginning on the 

 opposite page. 



The accompan3'ing map (page 38) indicates where potato 

 experiments are being conducted ; the photographs also indi- 

 cate the characteristics of each variety. 



Our potato plot the past season was a good medium loam 

 soil in a fair degree of fertility. A good sod, which had been 

 previously manured with barnyard manure, was turned under 

 and put in a proper degree of tilth ; marked out in rows three 

 feet apart and planted in the usual way, using a fair applica- 

 tion of potato phosphate in the hill. At the second hoeing the 

 rows were hilled. After the bugs appeared, the vines were 

 treated twice with Paris green, and twice sprayed with Bor- 

 deaux mixture, in combination. 



TABLE III. — The Seventeen Varieties Giving the Largest Average 



Yield, in Order of Productiveness. 



.0 



Variety. 



Remarks. 



58 

 101 

 70 

 99 

 43 

 65 

 64 

 36 

 81 

 86 

 76 

 18 

 87 

 88 

 50 

 74 

 75 



Reeve's Rose 



White Beauty (1st year) 



Vaughan 



Red American Wonder (1st year) 



Late Puritan 



Sir William 



Seneca Beauty 



Harvest Queen 



Sir Walter Raleigh 



Fillbasket 



Woodhull's Seedling 



Dew-drop Rose 



Breck's Chance (1st year). 

 Prolific Rose (1st year) — 



Orphan 



White Rose 



Wilson's First Choice 



Usually more small. 

 See photograph (long). 

 Oblong, desirable. 

 Excellent. See photo. 

 Good cropper. 

 Wants clay loam. 

 Fine pink variety. 

 Desirable potato. 

 Very choice. 

 Good cropper. Photo. 

 Fair cropper. 

 Fine Rose type. 

 Large red. Photo. 

 Medium oval. Photo. 

 Long potato, fine. 

 Fair cropper. 

 Fair cropper. 



Besides the above, the only varieties to remain in our test 

 are Nos. i, 2, 4, 10, n, 16, 17, 24, 34, 38, 40, 44, 45, 47, 52, 

 53, 57, 61, 62, 66, 71, 80, 93, 95, 102. 



