EXHIBITION—SUPERINTENDENTS’ REPORTS. 
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I would urge upon the industrial producers of the state the 
importance of annually attending the state fair, and exhibiting 
anything which will tend to advance this great interest. If 
you do not obtain a premium, you will stimulate and awaken an 
interest in agriculture, or some other branch of industry which 
will be felt far and wide. You compare your products with 
those from other parts of the state; obtain some information 
which you did not before possess, or impart to others that which 
will be of benefit to them, and thus the industrial interests will 
be largely promoted. “ He who makes two blades of grass to 
grow where only one grew before is a public benefactor.” In 
no way can this be better done than by these annual gather¬ 
ings, where the experience and results of private enterprise are 
brought together, comparisons made, and the benefits of this 
interchange of views and of diversified industry spread before 
the people of the state. 
NEW VARIETIES OF POTATOES. 
M. K. YOUXG’S RErORT. 
According to promise I have the honor herewith to report upon the 149 
varieties of potatoes I had on exhibition in your department of this year’s 
state fair at Milwaukee. 
The White Hose —named at the state fair of 1869 by Dr. John A. Warder 
of Cincinnati—is a bybrid of my own propagation from the Early Rose and 
Early Hansworth. The history of its many tests in different localities du¬ 
ring the past season, though an unusual hard one on all varieties, has given 
great satisfaction. In instituting these tests, much care was exercised in 
intrusting them to gentlemen of reputation for their critical knowledge of 
the subject as a specialty, so that whatever its claims to merit might be, 
they would be established beyond question. The reports of these gentle¬ 
men, together with developments at digging-time in my own patch, have 
not only confirmed but augmented the high estimate I placed upon this va¬ 
riety when on exhibition at the state fair. When I came to dig the White 
Rose I found one hill (I planted one eye to the hill) the potatoes of which 
weighed 14 lbs. 11 oz., another hill 13 lbs. 12 oz.; the former had two stalks 
to the hill, the latter but one stalk. Mr. Burras of Ohio got nearly a bushel 
from one potato, about half the eyes failing to grow. Mr. Grinnell of Iowa 
got over a bushel by measure from one potato: calls it bug-proof, saying, 
“ its vines were not touched by the bugs, while those of one hundred and 
twenty-one other varieties were nearly all destroyed.” He had all the crack 
