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is highly beneficial ; but it is by no means equal to it for preserving 

 the tubers throughout our long hot summers. 



The varieties of potatoes are endless in number, but the majority 

 are coarse and unpalatable to one who knows what a good .potato is. 

 Every year novelties are placed on the market, few of which are found 

 able to maintain themselves. This year I have tried the Beauty of 

 Hebron from seed obtained from you; and I am satisfied that for 

 moderate earliness and prolific qualities it is the best I know. The 

 table quality of the tubers is the very best, as you ascertained yourself 

 from those I sent you of this season's crop. 



If you find in the foregoing anything you deem useful to your 

 friends, I shall be content to have given you my conclusions, arrived 

 at by my own experiments and aided by the results of others more 

 experienced than myself. I will only add, in conclusion, that I am 

 satisfied it is best to cut the seed potatoes to a single eye, with as much 

 of the tuber attached as possible ; and I invariably cut my seed a week 

 or ten days ; if possible,, before planting, rolling the pieces in gypsum 

 as soon as cut. 



Yaurs respectfully, 



E. M. HUDSON. 



