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Following is a tabulation giving data of the different 
plats for the past two seasons. 
1891. 
Name. 
Where 
Secured. 
Area. 
When 
planted 
Har¬ 
vest’d 
Yield 
per A. 
Expense 
per A. 
Value. 
Net. 
Fertilizer. 
Rose Seedling... 
V 
San Luis val. 
XA 
June 10 
Oct. 7 
108 
$55.80 
i 64.80 
$ 9.00 
Straw Ashes 
Mammoth Pearl. 
• 4 
252 
55.80 
151.20 
M95.40 
44 
1892. 
Rose Seedling... 
Table Rock 
/sA 
Mar. 10 
Aug. 
10 
59 
63.90 
61.98 
- 1.92 
44 
Mammoth Pearl. 
t( 
June 11 
Oct. 
21 
248 
84.50 
171.48 
86.98 
44 
1891— SMALL PLATS. 
Name. 
Where Secured 
Planted 
H’rvest’d 
Yield 
per A 
bus. 
Fertilizer. 
Hercules. 
Station. 
Mar. 17 
June 25 
90 
Burned Bones. 
California White. 
44 
44 
July 10 
70 
44 
Chicago Market. 
Monument 
June 3 
Oct. 1 
60 
Ashes and rotted manure 
California White. 
Station 
44 
44 
84- 
4 4 
Late Ohio. 
44 
44 
44 
63 
44 
Hoag’s Seedling. 
44 
44 
44 
40 
»4 
White Star. 
• 4 
44 
44 
50 
44 
Mammoth Pearl. . 
44 
44 
1 4 
45 
44 
52 Seedling.. 
44 
44 
44 
35 
a 
1892. 
New Early Market. 
t 
Philadelphia 
March 28 
Oct. 19 
152 
Rotted Manure 
Late Ohio. 
Monument 
44 
44 
152 
4( 
Mammoth Pearl. 
44 
<4 
• 4 
125 
4* 
Rose Seedling. 
44 
44 
44 
115 
44 
Rural New Yorker No. 2. 
Philadelphia 
44 
44 
142 
44 
In estimating the expense of raising potatoes in the one- 
fourth and one-half acre plats, the regular farm wages were 
allowed, the value of the crop being estimated at the price it 
was actually sold for, so that the “ net ” is the amount gained 
or lost, after the work of raising the crop was paid for. 
The failure of the one-half acre of Rose Seedlings, the 
past season, to produce a profitable early crop, was due to a 
very heavy frost in May which cut the vines to the ground, 
setting them back and making it necessary for the crop to- 
come to maturity in the warmest weather, which has always 
proven an unfavorable time. 
In explaining the efficacy of straw ashes as a fertilizer, 
it is not with the understanding that this amount of ashes, in 
