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being eighty- three for tlie whole, and so with the other kinds. The 

 treatment of all the kinds in each several plot was the same. The 

 land varied from warm, deep, rich alluvial loam, planted middle of 

 April, to cold, northerly exposed, high, stony, and poor soil, two 

 miles distant, planted the loth May. This affects the yield of most 

 of the varieties seriously, but the comparison is the better sustained. 

 Of course, owing to the drouth, the earliest plots planted gave best 

 results, and, as compared with last year's statement, the Sebec, Good- 

 rich, Rose, and Dyckman seem to have felt dry weather the most. 

 Another fact not to be overlooked, as proved by these experiments, 

 is the folly of planting too much seed. My plan has been generally 

 to plant large potatoes of each sort ; those of the newer and more 

 vigorous kinds cut finer than the others, and this accounts for dis- 

 crepancy in amount of seed to the acre. It is also noticeable that 

 difference of soil and of time of planting both affect the quality of 

 the potato as well as the yield ; the early planted were the best. A 

 great difference of profit to the acre between the different kinds is 

 another feature which the curious can readily reckon from these data 

 for himself, and this shows the supreme importance of planting the 

 best. 



The Angora Goat. 

 Mr. A. Eutychides, from Angora, in Asia Minor, came before the 

 Club with specimens of the hair and pelts of this animal. His ances- 

 tors for centuries have been engaged in tending these goats, and have 

 grown rich by selling the hair. It was supposed that the Angora 

 goat would not prosper on other continents, but since 1867, he says, 

 '' I have noticed that they have been shipped to Port Elizabeth, Cape 

 of Good Hope, at sixty to eighty-two pounds each ($300 to $475), 

 and the colonists have taken it up, in such a good earnest that they 

 exported mohair in 1867, 19,992 pounds; in 1868, 90,295 pounds; 

 in 1869, 314,634, and they expect to increase their exportation to ten 

 times as much in another five years, though their mohairs are not of 

 much value at present, on account of their crossing the thoroughbreds 

 with the native common goats, and clipping their hairs twice a year, 

 r have not the least doubt that in a short time the breed will improve, 

 or they will not cross the pure bred with the common, and clip them 

 once a year. Having seen the success made in the Cape of Good 

 Hope, I have hastened to New York, influenced by the feeling of 

 national love to the United States as a Greek, to be instrumental in 

 introducing this beautiful animal, which is so remunerative to all the 



