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medium-size potatoes cut into three, four or five pieces, is the most 

 profitable size and preparation of potatoes for planting, 



Mr. C. Taber, Brooklyn, L. I., planted four rows of Garnet Chili 

 potatoes in his garden last spring, one with single eyes, one with 

 two eyes on one piece; another with half a medium potato, and 

 the fourth with a whole potato of average size. The variety was 

 Garnet Chili, and the rows forty feet long, hills eighteen inches 

 apart, all manured and treated precisely alike. They did poorly 

 iu common with other potatoes on Long Island, the season being 

 too wet. Rot was quite prevalent, all being affected alike. They 

 were dug about the first of November, and it would puzzle one to 

 distinguish any difference in size. The yield was as follows: One 

 eye, twenty-two and three-quarter pounds; two eyes, twenty-eight 

 and three quarter pounds; half a potato, twenty-nine and a quarter 

 pounds; whole potato, twenty-six and a half pounds. This single 

 experiment shows that taking cost of seed into account, a piece of 

 potato with two e^'^es is the best size to plant. 



WHEAT IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY. 



Mr. Samuel Sinclair, Croton Landing, N. Y. — Capt. D. Farring- 

 ton, of Croton, Hudson River, raised this season one hundred and 

 fifty and a half bushels winter wheat on five and a half acres. He 

 applied one and three-quarter tons bone dust, and the grain was 

 sown on 16 th October. 



Mr. N. C. Meeker. — Any man should be both respected and 

 honored \yho will raise wheat in this way in the old States, and 

 show the people that they need not depend on the West for bread. 



Adjourned. 



October 22, 1867, 

 Mr. Nathan C, Elt in the chair; Mr. John W. Chambebs, Secretary. 



LEAVES FOR MANURE. 



Mr. S. J. Harrell, Preston, Webster county, Ga., writes that he is 

 about to enter into the manure-niiiking business, and thinks of 

 hauling leaves and fine straw into pens, sprinkling through the 

 layers lime, which costs from two dollars and fifty cents to three 

 dollars a barrel. He asks the opinion of the Club. 



Mr. Wm. Lawton. — ^The lime would add nothing to the fertility 

 of the leaves; in fact, they would be better without Leaves of 



