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generally large, few small. Virgirosa (95) medium early, uniform in size, 

 very handsome. The remainder were more or less scabby, or too small. Sir 

 William was very poor. My main crop was New Queen (48); there were 

 very few in a hill, but nearly all were of good size." 



F. O. Melvin, Bj-adford. — " Planted May 18, 1898, on ground broken up in 

 fall of 1897, with manure plowed under; well harrowed in spring, and planted 

 in drills three feet apart, eighteen inches apart in drills, with Reed's Special 

 Potato Manure in drills. Soil medium. Most of the varieties were smooth, 

 with a very few prongy ones, and not much rot among them. The season 

 was much better than last year for the growing of potatoes, but I did not 

 have as large a yield as I usually have." 



ROCKINGHAM COUNTY 



Name of Grower. 



Soil. 



Variety and Yield Per Acre of Each. 



Thomas Barrett, Newton yjaiction. — "The soil in which the potatoes from 

 the Experiment Station were planted was new ground, which was heavy and 

 rocky. The only fertilizer used was Stockbridge's Potato Manure, at the 

 rate of 800 pounds per acre. There was no rot in any of the varieties. The 

 ones I prefer are Quick Crop (157), Rose No. 9 (63), Late Puritan (43), and 

 Rural New Yorker No. 2 {62)." 



J. L. Currier, South Hamptoi. — " The potatoes received from the Experi- 

 ment Station were planted in a gravelly loam soil. The previous season, the 

 land was cropped with corn and Hungarian, using as a fertilizer a part each 

 of manure and fertilizer. The potatoes were planted in drills three feet 

 apart, using one or two eyes to the piece, and dropping them about one foot 

 apart in the row. The fertilizer was one ton of Stockbridge Potato Manure 

 per acre, one half harrov/ed in, and the remainder in drill. They came up 



