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The following notes, from Messrs. Mann and Colburn, were 

 passed to the Committee at the time of the exhibition : 



Mil. MANN'S NOTE. 

 If your attention is called to twelve varieties of potatoes, ex- 

 hibited by me, I desire to state that they were sent mainly for the 

 purpose of showing the result of light seeding. They were all 

 grown from small potatoes, not large enough for cooking, and 

 were all cut so that not more then two eyes remained on a piece. 

 Two pieces were put in a hill. They were planted about the first 

 of June, in different locations, and where they escaped the effect 

 of the late drought, the crop was good. The crops not yet being 

 gathered in, I only measured the produce of one variety, namely, 

 that kind grown from bits cut from the seed end, taking not over 

 one eighth part of the potato, and this I often cut in two pieces, 

 the remaining seven eighths of the potato being used for the table. 

 This gave me one bushel from eighteen hills. It was not an ex- 

 periment with me this year ; I risked this manner of planting from 

 the result of former trials. 



I also exhibit a sample of potatoes grown from bits cut from the 

 seed end two months previous to planting, — the principal part of 

 the potato having also been used for the table. The seed in all 



cases was limed immediately after cutting. 



Samuel C. Mann. 



MR. COLBURN'S NOTE. 

 I have presented a bushel of " Jenny Lind " potatoes. I plant- 

 ed one peck of seed and raised three bushels from thirty-two hills. 

 The bushel is a fair sample of the whole of them. They were 

 raised on low land, on rich, deep soil. Respectfully submitted by 



Charles Colbuen, of Dedham. 



RErORT ON SPADING. 



The Committee of the Norfolk Agricultural Society for the 

 award of premiums on Spading, having attended to their duty, 

 beg leave to report : 



