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der well in the milk on Oct. 15tli. The previous crop for 

 1893 Avas corn manured in the hill with night soil mixed 

 with gravel and loam, all the manure which the crops had. 

 The land was ploughed in the Fall of '94 ; in the Spring 

 of 1895 it was harrowed and brushed. On one side of the 

 piece there were three cords of as good manure as could 

 be had, applied at the rate of 20 cords to the acre ; on the 

 remaining part was applied Stockbridge Potato Feitilizer at 

 the rate of one ton per acre, part broadcast, and the rest 

 in the drill. The piece was furrowed, potatoes dropped, 

 covered with cultivator, brushed with brush harrow, as the 

 potatoes were pricking the ground, cultivated once, earthed 

 up with cultivator twice, dug with a potato digger and 

 mostly stored in the cellar. I have sold 60 bushels at 60 

 cents per bushel ; there was no hand work done on them 

 from the dropping to the digging. The seed was three 

 bushels Early Norther, five bushels New Queen and one- 

 half bushel Rural Blush. The yield of the Blush, was 

 first. Queen next, and Early Norther last. The tops during 

 the season where the manure was applied looked the rank- 

 est, but at digging time the Stockbridge told the story, 

 the yield on the fertilizer being at least one-third more than 

 where the manure was used. There were not one-half as 

 many rotten ones on the Stockbridge as on the manure, 

 while the fertilizer potatoes were much smoother and of 

 better quality. 



I think I have fully satisfied myself that the Stockbridge 

 Potato Fertilizer is the only manure which should be used 

 for potatoes, if you want good, sound, smooth tubers. The 

 yield was 159 bushels on the half acre, or 318 bushels per 

 acre. 



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