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where whole seed was used, there was fully as many mer- 

 chantable potatoes, but a larger per cent of small ones. 

 The whole seed was what we call " medium" (between the 

 size of an English walnut and a hen's egg). The cut seed 

 was from quite large potatoes, say 125 potatoes to the 

 bushel, cut about two eyes on a piece. The varieties were 

 Beauty of Hebron, Early Essex, with one peck of New 

 Queen, from which I dug fourteen bushels of very nice pota- 

 toes, hardly a peck of small ones in them. After the New 

 Queen, the Essex was the best cropper. I have at this 

 time the most of them in the cellar. What I sell I am get- 

 ting $1 a bushel for. There were no rotten ones where the 

 fertilizer was used, and very few where the manure was, — 

 probably not four quarts on the three-quarters of an acre. 

 They were planted the last part of April, and were ripe be- 

 fore the mildew struck them. 



John H. George. 



Methuen, Mass, Oct. 9, 1890. 

 This certifies that I measured one-half acre of land for 

 John H. George, on which was a crop of potatoes entered 

 for premium with the Essex Co. Agl. Society. 



Chas. W. Mann 



STATEMENT OF DANIEL CARLETON. 



To the Committee on Root Crops. 



Gentlemen : — 



The half acre of cabbage entered by me, was grown upon 

 land that had been in grafts for seven years. Last spring 

 twenty loads per acre of cow manure were spread on the 

 sod and plowed under about six inches deep. The land was 

 harrowed and the rows made about three and a half feet 

 apart, one-half ton per acre of Cumberland super-phosphate 

 was sown in the furrows and covered with the brush harrow. 

 .Seed was sown May 31, by machine, using three-quarters 



