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a pound lo the acre ami no pcjisons vxcre u>c(l Auj;'. K;. A ihiriL 

 pail of the field was sprayed the same as ilie second, except tliat 

 the Bordeaux mixtine was made by using 5 pounds of prepared 

 Pine Cone Lime in place of that \\eiq1it of lump lime. At har- 

 vesting each part of the field was dui:; In ilie I loover potato dig- 

 g"er. The ]K)laloi,s were assorted in llir fuld. jiul into sacks and 

 taken to the barn and weig-hed. The crop for each part of the 

 field was handled l)y itself. Ihe stand was fairly uniform over 

 the whole lield and fiir the season a very good one, about 80 per 

 cent of a perfect stand. The condensed field notes follow and 

 in the tables beyond are given yields from the different parts of 

 the field and the yield calculated per acre. 



1 



CONDENSED FIELD NOTES. 



Bordeaux Mixture and 



Bug Death Part of 



Field. 



Aug.'JJ. Vines beginning 

 to turn yellow. 

 Some blight. 

 The east rows 

 not so good 

 color Hs the 

 west rows. 



Very little in- 

 dication of 

 work of potato 

 bugs. 



Aug. •JO. 



Sept. 7. 



Sept. S. 



Whole of this 

 part yellowing 

 very badly. 

 Quite a little 

 blight. 



Leaves one- 



third dead and 

 the rest yel- 

 lowing. 



Leaves three- 

 fourths to 

 wholly dead. 

 Stems green 

 but some quite 

 pale. 



Bordeaux Mixture and 



Paris Green Part of 



Field. 



Aug. 21. Vines better 

 color than on 

 Bug Death 



portion. Very 

 little if any 

 evidence of 

 blight. Tops 

 n(>t damaged 

 by bugs but 

 eaten rather 

 more than on 

 Bug Death 



part. 



Aug. 20. 



Sept. 1. 



Sept. S. 



Vines not so yel- 

 low as where 

 Bug Death was 

 used but blight 

 about the same 



Leaves rather 

 better than on 

 Bug Death 



part. 



Leaves and 



stems about 

 the same as on 

 Bug Death 



part. 



Bordeaux Mixture frok 

 Prepared Lime and 

 Paris Grekn Part 

 of Field. 

 Aug. 21. The notes agree 

 with thone 



taken for the 

 part treated 

 with regular 

 Bordeaux and 

 Paris green. 



Aug. 2G. 



Sept. 1. 



Sept. 8. 



Vines appear 

 about the same 

 as where regu- 

 lar Bordeaux 

 was used. 



Leaves about the 

 same as on 

 regular Bord- 

 eaux part. 



Leaves and 



stems about 

 the same as on 

 other parts. 



A\s the potatoes in the north end of the Bug Death part of the 

 field were rotting considerably, and as there was a market for 

 them for immediate use, it was decided to harvest the northern 

 part of the field September 15. The remainder were harvested 

 September 29, 1903. The table which follows shows the area of 

 the plots, the yield per plot in pounds and the calculated yields 

 per acre. 



