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The grand product was measured accurately, the sorts treated alike, and 

 the rows contiguous to each other, 



Mr. Williams also gives the following results of experiments with differ- 

 ent sized seed in 1860 : 



Primes. Culls. 



1st row, small seed, cut in 2 to 4 pieces, yield 16 qts. 19 qts. 



2d row, small seed, whole 16 qts. 23 qts. 



3d row, large seed, cut to 2 and 3 eyes 19 qts. 13 qts. 



4th row, large seed, cut into small ends 13 qts. 17 qts. 



5th row, large seed, cut into stem or butt ends 16 qts. 18 qts. 



It will be seen from the above that the small ends of large seed gave 

 the least yield, and small seed, whole, the largest yield, the excess being 

 in small potatoes, while the large seed, cut, gave the least small ones and 

 most large ones. 



POUDRETTE. 



Mr. R. G. Pardee inquired about the use of poudrette as a fertilizer, and 

 its value. He understands that the material of which it is made is so 

 abundant that vessels are loaded and taken down the Bay and the contents 

 discharged into the ocean. Can we afford to lose so valuable a substance ? 



Mr. W. S. Carpenter said that however valuable poudrette maybe for some 

 purposes, it had proved of detriment to farmers who relied upon it to pro- 

 duce a crop. Some in his neighborhood who applied it in the hill when 

 planting corn, obtained an early, rapid growth, but when the time came for 

 setting ears, the strength of the manure being exhausted, the crop was 

 hardly worth harvesting, 



Mr. E. Williams said he had used it for many purposes, with decided ad- 

 vantage. It is an excellent manure, and is used extensively both in corn 

 and potatoes. Any farmer can make it; it is only deodorized human excre- 

 ment, which can be done by the use of charcoal, coal ashes, soil from the 

 headlands, &c. 



Mr. W. S. Carpenter thought that as to the corn crop, if a farmer spent the 

 money for ashes instead of poudrette, the results would be far more satis- 

 factory. 



Working Oxen in Harness. 



Mr. R. G. Bolles, Le Eaysville, Ind., says : " I am a young farmer, and 

 have given much attention to breaking young oxen, and wish information 

 whether oxen are successfully worked in harness in any part of our country; 

 if so, where, and what is the construction of harness, &c, ?" 



Mr. Geo. Bartlett said that the shakers in the neighborhood of Pitts- 

 held, Mass., formerly used a great many oxen harnessed with leather 

 breeching attached to a wooden yoke, not unlike the part of an ordinary 

 ox-yoke which encircles the neck of one ox. 



Mr. R,. H. Williams, said he had frequently seen oxen harnessed with the 

 harness and collar like a horse. 



Adirondac Grape. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller stated that he had visited the orginal vine which he found 

 growing on the west bank of Lake Champlain, fifty or sixty miles south of 

 Plattsburg. He found it in the garden in company with several Isa- 



