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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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A New Potato.— The Early Ohio. 
This ui'st-class potato is the first 
of my own introducing since I 
several years ago sent out the Ex¬ 
celsior, Meanwhile I have received 
from kind friends, on an average, 
about fifty new seedlings a year. 
To all of these I have given a care¬ 
ful and conscientious trial of their 
merits, on my experimental 
grounds, planting them with note¬ 
book in hand, and following their 
growth and development, with note 
hook, throughout the season. Ul¬ 
timately I have found but three out 
of over two hundred seedlings that 
have proved themselves to be de¬ 
cided acquisitions. I last year sent 
out one of these seedlings, viz.: the 
Eakly Ohio. This is one of the 
numerous seedlings of the Early 
Rose, but while almost all of these are so like their parent as to be undistinguishable from it, the Eakly Ohio, while in 
color like the Early Rose, is, in shape, quite distinct, being round-oblong instead of oval-oblong, so that side by side it is 
readily distinguishable. Eyes about as numerous as those of the parent, while the brows are rather more prominent. 
On the largest specimens, the cluster of eyes at the seed-end are located slightly one side of the longer axis. Quality 
excellent. Grown side by side with the Early Rose, it proved several days earlier, while the yield was a third greater. 
The above engraving is a very good likeness of the Early Ohio. The result of another season's trial of its merits, side by 
side with all the new seedlings now before the public, besides over thirty new varieties sent me from various localities in 
New England, the Middle and Western states, each of which being sent as a new seedling of special promise, leaves the 
Ohio in the same high rank it held after the trial of last season, viz.: 1st, as decidedly earlier than Early Rose, and 2nd, as 
emphatically a better cropper than any other variety equally early, and equalled by but two of the later varieties. I add 
extracts from letters received from farmers residing in several States who grew the Ohio last season. One grower who 
tried over twenty of the standard varieties, early and late, found that the Ohio excelled them all in cropping qualities. 
*• Last spring you sent me one pound of the Early Ohio, 
and I raised two hundred pounds. ’ Wm. H. Cornish. 
Carmel, N. Y„ Nov. 10,1875. 
“ From the two pounds (Early Ohiol I bought of you, cut 
to single eyes, with only common cultivation, I dug on Aug. 
1st, four bushels, by measure, of as fine potatoes as you ever 
saw, nearly all being large size, and much better than Early 
Rose. The season was very dry indeed, and the hugs awful. 
It was a big yield. They were the earliest out of twenty-one 
varieties tested this season. Boils nice and mealy.” 
Horsham, Pa.. Aug. 24,1875. Rowl. Sobekts. 
“I purchased one pound of Ohio Earlies of you last 
spring. I raised 240 lbs. of potatoes of fine size and shape. 
They were earlier than Early Rose, and were dry and good 
flavored. We think a great deal of them.” 
Sandwich, III, Oct. 27,1875. Andrew Gkaham. 
“ From the one pound of Early Ohio potatoes obtained of 
you last spring, I have raised eighty pounds of as nice pota¬ 
toes as ever was harvested—so the neighbors say.” 
Barre, Vt., Sept. 20, 1875. M. V. Bailey. 
“ Last spring I bought one pound of Early Ohio potatoes 
for$l. They have more than met my expectation. They 
yield well, and I should say were fully one week earlier than 
Early Vermont, side by side of which they were planted. 
For eating they arc simply superb.” Geo. W. Haven. 
Bloomingdale, Mich., Oct. 27,1875. 
“ Fmm the one pound of Early Ohios I dug 212 lbs., which 
was two pounds over three and a half bushels. I would like 
to know if any person has beat that. I had several of them 
that weighed over two pounds. I consider it a well spent 
dollar for that pound.” James Drum mono. 
Forbelti, Kansas, Nov. 17,1875. 
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