Potatoes for Seed. 115 
Perhaps your readers remember I last spring promised to 
make such experiments and communicate the results to the 
Farmer. 
I carefully selected a piece of ground of even soil, consist- 
ing of 16 rows of 20 hills each. I manured it in the hill as 
evenly as possible. I then weighed the seed and planted 
eight rows, commencing on one side, each row with different 
seed, in the order observed in the tables below. I then 
planted the eight remaining rows, commencing on the other 
side in the same order, so that if my experiment ground were 
better on one side than it were on the other I should be likely, 
from a combined experiment, to obtain a fair result. 
I shall give the results of the experiments separately, that 
your readers may see there exists a similarity in them. 
I dug, counted, and weighed separately, the product of each 
row, and after deducting the weight of the seed, as was very 
important in order to arrive at a correct conclusion, as the 
weight of the seed varied from 7} to 194 Ibs. I found the 
result exactly as follows. 
First EXPERIMENT. 
Weight. No. per 60 Ibs. 
Seed ends, 54. 74, 
Middles, 493 316 
Buts, 58 317 
Large whole, 674 286 
Small whole, 624 241 
Cut longintudinally 57 234 
Double seed, 56 829 
Drills, 613 310 
