STATEMENTS ON POTATOES. 



Statement of an Experiment in raising Potatoes 

 by West Brothers. 



Committee on Crops, Gentlemen : 



The land on which this experiment was tried was 

 about half an acre, sowed to r^-e for the last three 3'ears with two 

 cords of manure harrowed in, in 1879. Plowed the first week in May 

 and planted the fifth and sixth ; the first twentj'-four rows with Early 

 Rose, nine rows with ver}' small Peerless and Brigham Seedlings. 

 The rows were five to the rod. We have prepared a table of the 

 twent3'-four rows so anyone can tell at a glance the weight of seed 

 used per acre and the amount of the crop per acre. In figuring the 

 latter, if the fraction was over a half-bushel it was added and vice 

 versa. 



