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in the order of productiveness, were given by the following 

 varieties: Rose No. 9, Restaurant, Woodbury's White, 

 Bliss's Triumph, Prolific Rose, Empire State, Early Maine, 

 Dakota Red, Sir William, Early Rose and Beauty of 

 Hebron. All of these gave a product at the rate of more 

 than 220 bushels of merchantaljlc tubers per acre. A^ain, 

 as last year, we find the two old standard sorts. Early Rose 

 and Beauty of Hebron, ranking among the very best. It 

 appears doubtful whether any among all those tried are 

 truly superior to these varieties. 



Twenty-three varieties have given yields of merchantable 

 tubers at the rate of less than 175 bushels per acre. These, 

 in the order of inferiority, are the following : Minister, 

 Bill Nye, Harbinger, Peerless, Jr., Livingston Banner, 

 Burpee's Extra Early, Carmen No. 3, Dandy, Early Mar- 

 ket, Crown Jewel, Merriman, White Star, Irish Daisy, 

 Chance, Six Weeks, Alliance, Sunlit Star, World's Fair, 

 Freeman, Ohio, Jr., Great Divide, Wise Seedling and 

 Early Norther. 



All of the varieties grown this year are to be examined 

 for determination of dry matter and starch, but this work 

 could not be completed in season for this report. Full 

 details as to the varieties cultivated are therefore reserved 

 until these analytical results can be published. 



3. Grasses. 



Sixty species and varieties of grasses have been under 

 trial. Most of them occupied plots containing one square 

 rod. About one-half of these grasses were sown in the 

 spring of 1896. Among those so sown the following varie- 

 ties winter-killed : English rye grass, Italian rye grass, 

 crested dog's-tail and meadow fescue. Among compar- 

 atively little-cultivated varieties Avhich appear promising 

 may be mentioned the following : tall oat grass, tall fescue, 

 red fescue, fowl meadow, Canada blue-grass, water-spear 

 grass and wood-meadow grass. 



The yield of the dry matter in the hay and rowen (wliere 

 any was secured) of those varieties sown in the spring of 

 1896 during the past seq,son, with date of cutting of both 



