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Report of the Director of the 
As a matter of record, we give the yield of each potato plat of the 
F series, in sequence, the plats being one-twentieth of an acre, as before 
stated : 
Merchant- 
able, lbs. 
Unmerchant- 
able, lbs. 
Rotten, 
lbs. 
F 1 
F 2 
F 3 
F 4 
F 5 
F 6 
F 7 
F 8 
F 9 
F 10 
F 11 
F 12 
F 13 
F 14 
F 15 
F 16 
F 17 
F 18 
F 19, 
F 20. 
F 21. 
446.7 
277.0 
422 . 5 
490.0 
378.7 
353.2 
421.7 
542.7 
423.0 
477.5 
349.8 
429.8 
447.0 
355.4 
305.7 
350.0 
459.2 
312.2 
377.5 
275.7 
241.2 
29.0 
37.2 
33.7 
20.7 
22.7 
24.2 
26.2 
28.2 
24.7 
40.0 
29.0 
19.8 
16.4 
36.0 
26.2 
23.2 
23.5 
33.7 
43.7 
30.5 
27.2 
0.7 
0*5 
0.5 
Corn. 
The series C and E, of one-twentieth acre plats, were utilized as 
duplication tests, each plat in each series receiving like treatment. 
Series C was planted May 11, vegetated May 20 and 23, was cultivated 
June 8, June 30 and July 11, was stooked September 7, and harvested 
September 30. Series E was planted May 10, vegetated May 20 and 
23, was cultivated May 24, June 6, June 25 and July 11, was stooked 
September 7, and harvested September 30. In either series the hills 
were 44 inches apart, and no fertilizer used. In figuring to bushels 
per acre, 80 pounds of ear corn are calculated as a bushel of shelled 
corn. 
