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THE AMERICAN GARDEN. 



[March. 



NINE ACRES OF POTATOES. SIX CAREFUL TESTS. 



.1. II. * R. C. COOK, "COOK STOCK FARM," Clinton, Conn., January 22, 1883, report: 



Crop Potatoes, " Burbank's Seedling," planted second week in June, in drills 30 inches apart — all the seed home raised and cut alike. 

 Nine acres, divided into six equal plots {1H acres each), all alike in fertility, character of soil, and drainage. Each plot given the same treatment 

 iltivator, and hoe. 



$36.00 worth of Manure or Fertilizer used on each plot, excepting No. 4, which received no manure. 



No. 1. 



No. 2. 



No. 3. 



No. 4. 



No. 5. 



No. 6. 



$36.00 worth ol 



Mapos's Potato Manure 



in the drills. 



340 bushels. 



Large, smooth, and excel- 

 lent cooking quality. 



ljj acres. 



$36.00 worth of 

 Fine Barn-yard Manure, 

 plowed under the fur- 



147 bushels. 



Medium' size, lacking in 

 smoot hness and quality. 



$36.00 worth of 

 ***** Guano in the 

 drills. 



186 bushels. 



Good potatoes, but not so 

 good in quality as Nos. 

 1 and 5. 



lh acres. 



No manure. 



119 bushels. 

 .Small and poor potatoes. 



1H acres. 



$36.00 worth of 

 Mapes's Potato Manure 

 in the drils. 



339 bushels. 



Most excellent. Equal 

 to plot No. 1. 



l'i acres. 



$36.00 worth of 

 Fine Barn-yard Manure, 

 broadcast after plant- 

 ing. 



189 bushels.* 



Medium size, lacking in 

 smoothness and qualin 

 as compared with Nos. 

 1 and 5. 



lis acres. 



* This result may have been partly due to the manure acting as a mulch. 



The Potatoes planted with the 3Iapes also remained green much longer than those with * * * » * Guano and Barn-yard Manure. 



" The Mapes grown Potatoes are pronounced by all as remarkably flue, and we even now are tilling orders for seed. Next season we plant the same nine acres, 

 " and Ave acres adjoining, all in Potatoes, with 1,500 lbs. per acre of the Mapes Potato Manure.'' 



Messrs. COOK BROS, write, February 15, 1883 : 



" We are now selling the Mapes Potatoes (Burbank's, grown with the Mapes Potato Manure) at forty cents per bushel above market price. One purchaser 



has ordered one hundred bushels." 



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