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THIRD POTATO REPORT 



HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY 



Name of Grower. 



Soil. 



Variety and Yield Per Acre of Each. 



D. G. Roberts, 



Goffstown. 



Gravelly 

 loam. 



No. 



85 



No. iNo. 

 48 57 



260 260 [ 240 

 bu. bu. ! bu. 



No. 

 33 



224 

 bu. 



No. 

 66 



No, iNo. INo. 'No. 'No. 

 86 ' 58 90 96 82 



224 i 224 208 ] 208 \ 208 240 

 bu. I bu. i bu. bu. i bu. i bu. 



Wm. H. Huse, | Black 



Manchester, loam. 



Geo7'ge F. Clotigh, East Weare. — "The potatoes sent me were planted on new 

 ground of a light loam, not very dry. I spread on a good crop of stable 

 manure and used also a compost of hen manure, half and half, but no phos- 

 phate. Think I missed it by not using the latter. I Paris greened them but 

 once. We have not had a good crop of potatoes in this section now for two 

 years. The varieties I liked very much ; of those received this year are Late 

 Puritan (43), Prize Taker (54), and Parker's Market (51). 



"Of the varieties received last year I planted same again. Uncle Sam (i) 

 is too late for this place, as it is very frosty here. Sir William (65), Reeve's 

 Rose (58), and Orphan (50) did very well and I shall plant Sir William and 

 Orphan as a main crop next year. The new varieties did as well, and in 

 most cases better than the kinds that have been planted here right along." 



Pierce Brothers, Hollis. — " Report of ten varieties of potatoes sent from 

 Experiment Station. Planted April 19th and gathered September i6th. 

 Planted upon an old garden, using small handfuls of phosphate in a drill. 

 Used drill process of planting and hilled up somewhat in hoeing. Applied 

 Paris green to destroy bugs. Bugs not as plenty in any of our fields as usual. 

 Blight did not effect the vines which were uncommonly green and luxuriant. 



"The yield, while not large, was in most varieties fair, and of excellent 

 quality. The amount of rot in our fields was trifling. We found the experi- 

 ments interesting, and take pride in our boxes of potatoes. 



" The potatoes were cut to one eye and planted in drills. Some rotten ones 

 among Nos. 16 and 11, very few scabby ones, in fact so little of it that we 

 made no account of it. We think the Early Thoroughbred the finest potato 



