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with the Harrison, a potato famous for its productiveness and 

 good looks, both of vine and seed, (though for what else your 

 committee are unable to state,) the yield was enormous, being at 

 the rate of 410 bushels to the acre ; and even this yield would 

 have been exceeded, had not the drought caused the formation 

 of small potatoes above ground, on at least one-sixteenth of the 

 vines ; thereby rendering unmarketable all the potatoes grow- 

 ing on the vines so effected, which was plainly visible to the 

 Committee as they passed over the ground. 



The crop of Early Michigan potatoes, a new and valuable 

 variety, entered by Mr. H. F. Longfellow, of Byfield, was an 

 excellent crop ; it was grown on land in good condition, and 

 well suited for such a crop. Mr. L. supposed when he enter- 

 ed it that there was a half acre as required by the Society's 

 rules, but it was found after our visit to contain but 65 rods, 

 thus excluding it from a premium. As it is a new variety of 

 superior quality, as tested by your Committee, we feel that it 

 deserves a notice here at this time, while there is such a rage 

 for new potatoes. The piece was shaded on one side by six. 

 large apple trees, which would have been 14 trees to the acre? 

 which affected the quantity of the crop reported by him as at 

 the rate of 257 bushels to the acre. 



RIJTA BAGAS. 



Mr. Longfellow's crop of these roots, in an adjoining field 

 comprising three acres, was well worthy of entry, and of 

 which he entered one acre, that in his report yielded at the 

 rate of 56,580 pounds. The piece entered by Mr. Joshua L. 

 Newhall, and visited by us a fortnight earlier, did not then 

 promise so large a crop as the above, though its yield was 

 large, at the rate of 39,840 pounds to the acre. 



ONIONS. 



The acre entered by Mr. Paul M. Ilsley, of Oldtown, was 

 visited on the 29th of September ; the onions were then pulled 

 and spread over the ground, which was well covered and was 

 the largest yield for the uniform quality, that most of the 

 members of the Committee had ever seen, assuring us that 



