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In 1824, April 9tli I planted the potatoes raised from the gveefi 

 balls in a bed richly manured, the bed was twelve feet in length 

 and three in width. I planted them in rows crosswise of the bed, 

 and one foot apart, and was careful to plant each kind by them- 

 selves ; when they were about two inches high I wed them, and 

 was particularly careful to keep them free of weeds through the 

 season, and I occasionally watered them. — After the vines were 

 dead, I dug the potatoes, some were of a middling size, others 

 were small, some kinds yielding a quantity threefold greater than 

 others ; the whole measured one peck and a half. 



April 9th, 1825, I planted one peck of the largest which I took 

 from the several kinds, in seventy-seven hills three feet apart in 

 one direction and two and a half in the other. The soil was 

 loamy, the manure was spread on the ground and ploughed in. 

 The potatoes Avhen they had attained a suitable height were wed 

 and every attention paid necessary to bring them to maturity. 



Sept. 30, 1825, I dug and measured the potatoes ; there was 

 one and a half bushels and three quarts. I boiled a few of each 

 kind, some of them were remarkably good flavored, others ap- 

 peared watery. I think that as many as four or five kinds are 

 worthy the attention of the farmer, not merely on account of 

 their productive quality but for being mealy and of good flavor, 

 among which are the small white ones ripe in June, the largest 

 kind ripe in August, and those which are in a growing state when 

 pulled, and the kind which resembles the blue noses ripe in July. 



ASA PERLEY. 



IV. ON MANUFACTURES. 



The Committee appointed to examine and report on the applications 

 for premiums offered for Domestic and Household Manufactures, sub- 

 mit the following^ to ivit : 



To Miss Hannah Abbot of Andover, for a piece of yard wide 

 Carpeting, twenty-seven yards, the second premium of five dol- 

 lars ^§J5 



To Mrs. Elizabeth M. Harding of Haverhill, for a piece of 

 yard wide Carpeting, twenty-one and an half yards, a premium 

 of five dollars $5 



