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1837, and the other in the spring of 1838 —the whole a 
clover pasture in 1837. The part ploughed in the spring 
had sixty large wagon loads of straw from the barn yard put 
on and turned well under the sod —that part ploughed in the 
fall was well harrowed and cultivated and then furrowed 
shallow, and the seed dropped in drills, and fifteen’ loads of 
straw and sheep manure, taken from the sheep sheds, put in 
the hills over the potatoes. This piece was decidedly better 
than the first mentioned. The ground was naturally moist, 
and the excessive rains of the springs washed and drowned 
the seed very bad, so as to destroy more than a half acre, on 
part of which I planted on the 4th of July early white beans, 
from which I harvested three bushels of sound beans. Yet 
notwithstanding the bad season and rains, I harvested seven 
hundred and fifty-five bushels of potatoes, mostly pink eyes, 
the remainder a flesh colored (not the Sardinia,) which I 
call long keepers, from their being a better potatoe for sum- 
mer’s use than the pink eye. But the object of this commu- 
nication is to give you the result of my experiment in 1838, 
on the quantity of seed required. 
Row. In each hill, Yield. Qual. 
1 planted 1 whole large pink eye 4121bs. 8 
2 2 middle size 42 10 
3 1 do. 414 5 
4, 2 halves 324 9 
5 1 do. 393 3 
6 2 quarters 254 4 
7 1 do. 373 1 
8 1 very small 404 2 
9 2 do. 41 6 
10 large potatoes cut in $ and drilled 39 7 
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