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the first prize in the former class divided his 

 pound of seed into 110 sets, with the result 

 that he produced 181 lb. of potatoes. The 

 winner of the second prize, however, produced 

 only 67 sets, his crop weighing 173 lb. These, 

 like most of the competitors, employed both 

 dung and artificial manures. It will be ob- 

 served that the winner obtained slightly more 

 than 1| lb. of potatoes per plant, but one 

 competitor, who grew only 47 lb., produced 

 4| lb. per plant. Obviously, this individual, 

 by growing an acre in a similar way, would 

 be rewarded by a prodigious crop. The 

 heaviest weight of potatoes grown upon a 

 single root was 11| lb. These facts, the results 

 of the labour of working men, are a further 

 testimony to the importance of potatoes as 

 a crop for a Small Holding. Although a heavy 

 soil is not so well adapted to potato culture 

 as a medium or sandy loam, it can be made to 

 grow a heavy weight of potatoes by the 

 exercise of skill in cultivation and by the 

 judicious application of long dung, to 

 which artificials may be added, but without 

 long dung no such attempt should be made 

 upon soils of a plastic and tenacious character. 

 In the growth of rhubarb with the Victoria 

 or large variety Dr Bernard Dyer and his 



