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sonal knowledge and benefit, as well as for that of my correspondents 

 and fellow-agriculturists. 



Mr. Fuller — These records of personal experience with varieties 

 are valuable, provided persons who communicate them have no pet 

 interest to advance, as, unfortunately, is too frequently the case. As 

 for myself, on my light, sandy soil in New Jersey, I have settled upon 

 three out of the 137 sorts of potatoes I have tried, namely : Early 

 Rose, Peerless and Peachblow. If I were restricted to one kind, I 

 would choose the Early Rose. If one could be sure that the spring 

 would not be too dry, nor too wet, there would be no special neces- 

 sity for later varieties, that is, if the crop is stored in a cool, cellar. 



Mr. J. S. Peacock, Porter's Corner, N. Y. — Last spring I planted 

 half an acre of Peachblow potatoes upon the mulching plan of Mr. 

 Thompson, and with the following result : I plowed the piece ( the 

 ground was planted to potatoes the year before, and highly manrured 

 in the hill with barn-yard manure), marked it out three and a half 

 feet one way; cut the potatoes, put one piece in a hill eighteen inches 

 apart the other way, covered them two inches deep, and mulched 

 them with three two-horse loads of coarse interval hay ; used four 

 bushels of potatoes for seed. I did no more to them until I commenced 

 digging. After working diligently for about a day and a half in get- 

 ting them out, I measured up my entire crop. I had eight and a half 

 bushels, goodj plump measure. The land adjoining was planted in 

 the usual way, manured in the hill, and yielded about 150 bushels 

 per acre. 



Mr. E. Thompson, Louisville, Ky., April 5 — The farmers here are 

 now busy getting in their potato crop, which is a very important one, 

 as they planted a large breadth of land, and grow uniformly good 

 crops of good quality. Potatoes have been grown largely in this 

 State for the last thirty years, both for home use and the southern 

 market, where they rank higher, and sell for twenty-five per cent 

 more than other western grown potatoes that I know of. The variety 

 mostly grown now is called Shaker Russet, which is an early, strong- 

 growing potato of good quality, which yields from 100 to 200 bushels 

 per acre on ground that will produce forty bushels of corn without 

 manure. The price received for the corp of 1871 has averaged two 

 dollars and fifty cents per barrel, or one dollar per bushel, clear of 

 barrels. Potatoes are largely grown on the Ohio river, between 

 Louisville and Cincinnati. There are hundreds of barrels received 

 here daily from that section, which sell readily, and are of as good 

 quality as Lake Shore. 1 have grown potatoes here for the past thirty- 



