116 Potatoes for Seed. 
Srconp EXPERIMENT. 
Weight. No. per 60 Ibs. 
Seed ends, 55 282 
Middles, 512 318 
Buts, 55 839 
Large whole, b54 275 
Small whole, 493 287 
Cut longitudinally, 61 274. 
Double seed, 51 340 
Drills, 913 324 
ComBINED REsULTS. 
Seed ends, 109 278 
Middles, 1014 317 
Buts, 113 328 
Large whole, 1224 280 
Small whole, 112 264. 
Cut longitudinally, 118 254 
Double seed, 107 384 
Drills, 124 317 
If your readers feel the interest in following out these 
experiments and reducing them to practice which I felt in 
making them they will do it. 
[From the Albany Cultivator ] 
There is hardly any crop about the management of which 
- a greater diversity of opinions exisis than this— whether we 
regard soil, seed, or mode of planting and culture. The Brit- 
ish Board of Agriculture, with a view to ascertain the best 
mode of managing the potatoe crop, addressed a number of 
