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Following is a tabulation giving data of the different 
plats for the past two seasons. 
1891. 
Name. 
Where 
Secured. 
<D 
When 
planted 
Har¬ 
vest’d 
Yield 
per A. 
Expense 
per A. 
Value. 
Net. 
Fertilizer. 
Rose Seedling... 
San Luis val. 
X A 
June 10 
Oct. 7 
108 
$55.80 
$ 64.80 
$ 9.00 
Straw Ashes 
Mammoth Pearl. 
It 
it 
• t 
• l 
252 
55.80 4 
151.20 
95.40 
- 
1892. 
• 
Rose Seedling... 
Table Rock 
54 A 
Mar. 10 
Aug. 
10 
59 
63.90 
61.98 
- 1.92 
it 
Mammoth Pearl. 
<( 
14 
June 11 
Oct. 
21 
248 
84.50 
171.48 
86.98 
It 
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. 
it 
it 
July 10 
70 
it 
Chicago Market. 
Monument 
June 3 
Oct. 1 
60 
Ashes and rotted manure- 
California White. 
Station 
it 
it 
84 
it 
Late Ohio. 
it 
it 
“ fc 
63 
44 
Hoag’6 Seedling. 
It 
it 
it 
40 
»t 
White Star. 
• t 
it 
(i V 
50 
it 
Mammoth Pearl. . 
it 
it 
It 
45 
it 
52 Seedling. . 
it 
t( 
it 
35 
1892. 
New Early Market. 
Philadelphia 
March 28 
Oct. 19 
152 
Rotted Manure 
Late Ohio. 
Monument 
it 
it 
152 
ft 
Mammoth Pearl. 
it 
ft 
• t 
125 
4 * 
Rose Seedling. 
it 
i i 
it 
115 
it 
Rural New Yorker No. 2. 
Philadelphia 
it 
it 
142 
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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 
