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Wliere the half potatoes were planted with fertilizer 

 alone the yield was 310 pounds per row or 330 2-3 bushels 

 per acre. On manure and fertilizer the yield was the 

 same. 



Where the quarter potato was planted on fertilizer alone 

 the yield was 262 1-2 pounds per row or 280 bushels per 

 acre. On manure and fertilizer 210 pounds per row or 222 

 bushels per acre. 



On the row where the single eye was planted on fertil- 

 izer alone the yield was 225 pounds per row, or 240 1-6 

 bushels per acre. 



At the final digging I found in every row that was dug, 

 where the manure was used the percentage of rotten ones 

 was at least 50 ; where the fertilizer alone was used there 

 were very few rotten ones, not 5 per cent. I should 

 judge. 



One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one ex- 

 periment prove a fact, but this trial, although it has been 

 a very bad year for such work, has been in line with 

 foimer ones I have made as to amount of seed and also 

 with regard to the fertilizer and manure. It has shown at 

 least this year that the manure had better have been left 

 in the pile, that the fertilizer furnished ample food for the 

 crop and the work of appljang the manure was lost. The 

 3deld of sound tubers at digging time on the half-acre was 

 85 bushels. I have sold all but twelve bushels at an aver- 

 age of 90 cents per bushel. 



My way of ascertaining the yield was by digging one 

 peck from each row where the different sized potatoes Avere 

 used and measuring the distance in the row it took to dig 

 them, and my computations were made from that. The 

 seed was mostly New Queen and there were twelve bush- 

 els i)Ut on the half-acre. The seed was treated with the 

 Corrosive Sublimate Solution and Paris Green was applied 

 once. 



