REPORT ON POTATOES. 



The potatoes offered for premium is a sandy loam. Has been 

 mown for the past six years, and was very much run out. Plowed 

 May 15th, seven inches deep, harrowed thoroughly with Acme 

 harrow, marked rows three feet ai)art, furrowed with two horse 

 plow, six inches deep, planted May 19 cut potatoes, set fourteen 

 inches apart, covered with hand hoes — June 1st droped with 

 course barn manure, at the rate of five cords to the acre, and 

 harrowed in manure with Acme harrow. 



The crop was cultivated three times, hoed twice, and at the 

 first hoeing received an application of 1200 lbs to the acre of 

 a Fertilizer composed of two parts hardwood ashes, one part 

 salt, and one part bone meal. — Cost of fertilizer at depot $15.50 

 per ton. 



We also dusted the vines twice with plaster and paris green, 

 using 100 lbs of plaster and 1 lb. paris green at each droping — As 

 the weather was very wet I hilled up the potatoes very consider- 

 ably. The potatoes were healthy and vigorous throughout, and 

 an average rod gave 94 lbs of clean smooth potatoes of excellent 

 quality. The varieties are Lee's Favorite and Pride of America ; 

 of these Lee's P^avorite was the better yielding, while the quality 

 of both was all that could be desired. 



John C. Dillox. 



Amherst, 81st Oct. 1888. 



REPORT ON POTATOES ONE-HALF ACRE. 



The land on which my potatoes were raised was in grass some 

 years, it was plowed in the spring and a fair coat of manure 



