The Colorado Experiment Station. 
MONTROSE: BOSTWICK PARK 
Planted: Earlies 12x39. Late Varieties 10x39. 
Stake 
Variety and .Source 
Total 
Ware 
Culls 
Stand 
Earlies on sage brush land in orchard. 
64 
Dewdrop—Maine. 
4550 
4300 
250 
95 
56 
Noroton—Maine . 
1600 
1300 
300 
60 
66 
E. Ohio—-Red River . 
3300 
2600 
700 
95 
57 
Triumph—Carbondale . 
4800 
4300 
500 
76 
58 
Same—Salzer’s E. 
76 
59 
W. Bliss—Maine . 
4000 
3600 
400 
72 
65 
Perfection—Maine . 
5300 
4700 
600 
63 
67 
Bovee—Maine . 
4300 
3700 
600 
67 
63 
Burpee—Maine . 
5000 
4500 
500 
45 
62 
Cobbler—Mancos . 
5700 
5200 
' 500 
90 
61 
Cobbler—Red River . 
5500 
4100 
1400 
77 
On four year old alfalfa sod. 
84 
B. Victor—Nebraska . 
15800 
15500 
300 
95 
87 
Cobbler—2x10 . 
7000 
5500 
1500 
• • 
70-a 
Duplicate . 
7550 
6050 
1500 
• • 
69 
Snowflake—B. P. 
15000 
14000 
1000 
100 
68 
Snowflake—Greeley . 
16300 
14300 
2000 
96 
77 
“La Follette”—Wis. 
13250 
12750 
500 
93 
70 
Pearl—Pedigreed . 
12200 
11700 
500 
94 
73 
Pearl—Stove P. 
15300 
13700 
1600 
77 
71 
Pearl—B. P. 
13100 
12500 
600 
91 
72 
Pearl—Carbondale . 
9600 
9300 
300 
87 
76 
Pearl—1 yr. G. 
10600 
9700 
900 
94 
75 
Pearl—1 yr. G. sod . 
13300 
12300 
1000 
94 
74 
Pearl—Del Norte . 
16000 
15700 
300 
94 
81 
Rural—B. P. 
13700 
13100 
600 
96 
83 
Rural—Eaton . 
16400 
15800 
600 
95 
80 
Rural—Greeley . 
14700 
13700 
1000 
98 
82 
Rural—W. Sprout . 
17000 
15000 
2000 
93 
79 
Carmen III—Wisconsn . 
18600 
17400 
1200 
92 
78 
Downing—Montrose . 
12500 
11600 
900 
95 
85 
Peachblow—Greeley . 
12000 
9500 
2500 
93 
86 
Peachblow—Carbondale . 
14100 
11100 
3000 
88 
87 
Russet—Carbondale. 
12900 
10400 
2500 
93 
Earlies here had a poor start due to deeply dry soil and, as at Gree¬ 
ley, to drouth. And early potatoes cannot make up for lost time, as is 
noted under the division of this bulletin Early Potatoes. The excellence 
of the Triumph and the Cobbler are corroborated, and on the alfalfa sod 
increased yields were obtained from close planting of Cobblers. 
Maincrop Potatoes suffered severely not from a poor start, for they 
had a good one, but from the breaking of the ditch and dryness in mid¬ 
season. The large yields of both lots of Snowflakes as compared with 
others is a feature, while the Downings and Russets again give good 
yields as secondary sorts. 
Among the Pearls, note the capacity of the Stove Prairie dryland 
seed to give a good account of itself in hard conditions, as was shown with 
dryland seed Pearls at Greeley. This same idea applies to the Bostwick 
Park sage brush land Pearls,f the Greeley sod Pearls, and possibly to the 
Del Norte pea land Pearls as compared with those grown on alfalfa land 
at Greeley and Carbondale, and it is a general principle, that good seed 
does better when taken to richer conditions than those under which it 
grew. 
tSee results with Bostwick Park sage brush land seed at Julesburg 
and Greeley, and of Parshall sage brush land seed at Greeley. Sandy land 
with enough slope and the early irrigation possible at high altitudes, we 
believe to be factors in the success of this sage brush land seed. 
Among Rurals, note that all imported stocks exceed the home seed, 
and that a Rural seedling, Carmen III, Wisconsin grown, leads them all, 
while seed, pear-shaped, grown at Eaton near Greeley comes second. This 
seems to argue for change of seed stocks in this locality. 
