New Yoke Agkicultural Experiment Station. 
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ferent varieties is not noted, and in order to simplify the table as far 
as possible, the data heretofore given of the time of vegetation, bloom, 
etc., though noted as usual, is omitted. The crop was harvested 
October 15 to 18. 
As in previous reports, the yields given in the table are calculated 
on the basis of 100 hills, or eyes. That is to say, the largest tuber of 
the Adirondack, of which six eyes were planted, would have produced 
50 B>s. of merchantable tubers, had there been 100 eyes yielding at 
the same rate. This is done in order that all the plantings, in which 
the number of eyes used varied from four to twenty-eight, as well the 
plantings of different seasons, may be comparable with each other. 
The average yield, per hundred eyes, of the product of the largest 
tuber, in all the varieties, was 164 merchantable tubers, weighing 
62 lbs. 1| oz., or a total yield of 701 tubers, weighing 98 Bbs. 1J oz. 
Calculated per acre, allowing every eye to have grown, and 60 lbs. to 
the bushel, the average yield of merchantable potatoes would have 
been a fraction more than 129 bushels. 
It appears that the Green Mountain yielded most, or a little more 
than 385 bushels of merchantable tubers per acre, and the Grange 
second, or about 310J bushels per acre. In contrast with these, 
Brownell's No. 55, Buffalo Bill and Crane's Keeper yielded no 
merchantable tubers. 
Potato — A Test of Vakieties. 
NAME. 
Number of 
merchant- 
able tubers. 
Weight of 
merchant- 
able tubers. 
Total 
number. 
Total 
Weight. 
lbs. 
OZ. 
lbs. 
OZ. 
Brown Beauty 
43 
7 
U% 
391 
32 
1 
123 
31 
11% 
987 
84 
11M 
Crane's June Eating 
78 
21 
12% 
645 
65 
1 
Crane's Keeper 
None. 
414 
30 
11 
59 
"15 
'5% 
500 
55 
5% 
Dakota White 
177 
53 
UK 
1,241 
128 
±% 
9 
2 
11% 
536 
25 

36 
10 
±% 
286 
31 
3K 
164 
68 
IK. 
745 
124 
8 
277 
113 
5% 
727 
160 
10K 
Lombard 
277 
97 
8% 
882 
139 
6% 
173 
50 
iK 
845 
109 
12% 
41 
12 
10% 
491 
46 
IK 
Nye's Early Standard 
91 
26 
10K 
577 
59 
8% 
110 
37 
13% 
819 
99 
5% 
Polaris 
77 
19 
9% 
395 
44 
U% 
Sibley's Monroe County Prize 
273 
142 
9% 
659 
173 
12% 
Summit 
209 
80 
9% 
905 
139 
9 
Sunlit Star 
191 
44 
13 
759 
90 
5K 
Sylvan 
214 
84 
15 
623 
127 
10 
Tunxis 
236 
. 96 
% 
809 
141 
8% 
White Beauty 
305 
130 
3 
1,050 
196 
8% 
White Bermuda 
218 
85 
4K 
945 
133 
6 
White Flower 
236 
96 
1% 
732 
140 
12% 
"No. 49" 
132 
39 
1SK 
814 
98 
i% 
145 
46 
9K 
736 
101 
6% 
Total 
1886 
704 
9 
7,373 
1,168 
1% 
