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3rd. " Nina." — Still "better, but rather smaller ; excel- 

 lent flavor, and very sweet. 



These three varieties are very distinct. 



1st. Skin, dark-red ; flesh, deep pink. 



2d. Skin, light pink ; flesh, yellowish white. The aver- 

 age weight of these tubers is about one and one-quarter 

 to one and one-half pound. 



3d. Skin and flesh yellowish white. 



These potatoes were introduced by M. C. Montjoy, TL 

 S. Consul to Peru, in 1878, being the leading standard 

 varieties of that country. 



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CHAPTER II. 

 PRODUCTIVENESS AND PROFITS. 



The average productive capacity of the Sweet Potato 

 depends, of course, mainly on soil, climate, and culture. 

 In Brown County, Ohio, Wm. Meyer, Esq., raised on 

 nine rods twenty-three bushels of yellow Sweet Potatoes, 

 at a cost of between five and six dollars. Soil, a light 

 loam, without manure. In Hanover County, Virginia, 

 the average is from one hundred to one hundred and 

 fifty bushels per acre. As high as three hundred bushels 

 have been reached, which, at the average price of seventy- 

 five cents per bushel, would give a return of two hundred 

 and twenty-five dollars per acre. Many planters sell 

 their early select tubers at one dollar per bushel. 



The potatoes exhibited at the State Fair at Richmond, 

 in 1877, by Adolphus Talley, Esq., of Hanover County, 

 were of a crop that yielded two hundred and forty-five 

 bushels to the acre. 



