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out doors, and the rest of the vegetables I keep in a cool cel- 

 lar. I took the second prize on Stone Mason and the lirst 

 prize on Brunswick cabbages at the late County Fair. 1 did 

 not think of taking any vegetables to the Fair until the Satur- 

 day previous, and my largest cabbages I had sold. 



I planted six rows of large " Alpha" potatoes, cut and plant- 

 ed expressly for stock seed, manured with a compost of horse, 

 cow and sea manure. Having some small ones left, a few days 

 after I planted them, using Coe's Phosphate, strewing in a 

 handful to every three feet. Wliile growing there was a mark- 

 ed difference in the color of the leaves, those planted with ma- 

 nure were of a light green, those planted with phosphate were 

 of a very dark green color ; they were planted side by side, 

 (the ground the year before was planted to cabbages,) and 

 when dug there was a full third larger crop with the phosphate, 

 the potatoes being larger, smoother and handsomer than those 

 planted with the manure. I think that it will stand the drought 

 better than the stable manure. 



Reply of Allen Lee of MancJiesier, Mass., who received gratui- 

 ties/or Potatoes and Seed Beans. 



My Early Rose Potatoes were raised in clay and loamy land ; 

 one-half were planted with Stockbridge's fertilizer and the oth- 

 er with stable manure. I used half a gill of the Stockbridge 

 to a hill," well cut in. The Stockbridge produced 110 bushels, 

 whilst the stable manure produced 75 bushels. Those planted 

 with Stockbridge were ten days earlier, or in ten weeks from 

 planting I dug them, all ripe. I have had the seed twelve 

 years ; they are just as good now as the first year, and I expect 

 to keep them good as long as I live. I plant whole potatoes if 

 ray seed is common size. May 20th. If I can, I then get clear 

 of the first crop of bugs, and before the next crop comes my 

 potatoes are well up. I give them a good hoeing when about 

 eight inches high and that is all. The two best crops in our 

 neighborhood this year, had but one hoeing each. I go around 

 among my potatoes and pick off the bugs once a week. The 



