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Results of the Competition of 1S7 A, 
general crop yield a larger return than any of the competing 
potatoes. The early kinds cannot, of course, be fairly contrasted 
with late potatoes in respect of weight of crop. But it may be 
noticed that in each locality the produce of the early varieties 
and of No. 5 late were greatly below the general crop ; that in 
four localities (Stafford, York, South Wales, and North Wales) 
the produce of No. 3 was heavier ; in two localities (Kent and 
North Wales) the produce of o. 4 was heavier ; and in one 
locality (Lancashire) the produce of No. 6 was heavier than that of 
the ordinary crops in these various localities. Returns respecting 
the general crops were received from only twelve out of the twenty 
localities. At Ayr the general crop was taken out of the ground 
long before maturity ; and at Perth the general crop had been 
raised, without taking any notice of the produce per acre, before 
it was known to Colonel Ogilvie that this information was wanted. 
The gross yield of the competing potatoes and of the general 
crop in these twelve localities is shown in the following 
Table :— 
Table VIII. — Showing the Estimated Produce of the Experimental 
Potatoes, aud the Actual Produce of the Gexeral Crop per Acre in 
the Twelve Localities from which information has been obtained. 
Tons. cwt. lbs. 
Xo. 1, Early 45 19 43 
„ 2, Early 31 10 0 
„ 3, I.ate 128 10 0 
„ 4, Late 9G 15 47 
„ o, Late 80 15 106 
„ (), Late 82 6 10 
General Crop 126 10 16 
It we except from this Table the extraordinary crop of No. 3, 
which Mr. Brawn raised at Sandhills, Staffordshire, which raises 
the total yield of that variety to a higher figure than the general 
crop, it becomes obvious that the farmers who assisted the Society 
are in possession of potatoes which yield, in their various locali- 
ties, heavier crops than, with similar treatment, they have been 
able to obtain from any of the competing varieties. 
The great differences exhibited in the Table in tlie actual 
produce of the one hundredweight of seed is very remarkable 
In the first early, under the careful farming of Mr. Campbell, ai 
Fermoy, there is a yield of only 88 lbs., or about tliree-quarter: 
of the seed pl.anted, while in Ulster Miss Rose obtained .' 
crop weighing 10 cwt. GO lbs. Again, at Morpeth a yield oj 
1 cwt. 54 lbs. was obtained from the seed of No. 4 late, while oi' 
the other side of the country, at Ayr, the same seed producec 
14 cwt. 18 lbs. It is obvious from these and similar facts ex 
hibited in the Table that all the varieties of potatoes are no 
