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TlfAySACTloyS OF THE AmEFiCAX L\:s'riTCTK. 



red to, until four and one-half months old, when they were sold to the 

 butcher for eighty dollars, at which time their live weight was 890 

 pounds. The third one w^as from a two year old heifer, was fed and 

 treated in the same manner as the twins, except that it was once let 

 out of the stable and with its mother driven to the county lair, 

 where, on exhibition, premiums were awarded both to the calf and 

 its mother. When about tive months old this calf weighed alive 

 560 pounds, fetched me in cash at home tifty-five dollars, the buyer, 

 as usual, getting the best of the bargain. 



Adjourned. 



March 8, 1870. 



i^ATHAN C. Ely, Esq., in the chair; Mr. John W. Chambers, Secretary. 

 Experiment with Potatoes. 

 Mr. Gerard C. Browni, Croton Falls, N". Y., last year planted twen- 

 ty-seven varieties, and measured the yield of each, giving the result 

 in the following table : 



The above results were obtained by averaging the yields of the dif- 

 ferent varieties, as, for instance, one piece of Harrison gave me 130 

 V)iisliels to the acre, anotlier forty-eight, and another 100, the average 



