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Nosajt 8 
Seed. Seed. Seed. Seed. 
Single eyes. Quarter potatoes. Half potatoes. Whole potatoes. 
100 169 206 260 
115 189 263 303 
126 221 282 397 
129 927 321 
134 231 327 
147 261 
153 262 
169 270 
178 > 
; 184 
186 
186 
a beps: 
188 
189 
198 
208 
210 
219 
221 
We have a few studies in relation to distance for planting, but 
unfortunately too few for a full discussion. We heard last year a 
theory advanced, and indeed saw it put into practice, that in close 
planting shading produced the injury often noticed, and that when 
shading was prevented by pulling off the shoots so as to have but 
one in a hill, a certain crowding did not show ill effects; and that 
to secure the full benefits from single eye planting, close planting 
and a thinning to one stalk, when the plant was a few inches high, 
was requisite. 
In D. 5 we have a twentieth acre, White Star potato, single eyes, 
used as seed, 12x22 inches spaces and thinned to one stalk to the eye, 
and in D. 8 another plat where the spacing was the same, but the 
stalks not thinned. ach plat had received at the rate of 400 Ibs. 
fertilizer per acre: 
Calculated to 

full plat. 
; Merch. Total. Merch. ‘Total. 
. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. — 
: EITC oa ssc «die has ove ein 830.5 920.7 859.4 953.1 
| eset PHINNed oh 3. vies oc e's ss 577.0 676.5 593.4 695.8 
| PerenCetas sabe se Fasc 253.5 244.2 966.0 257.3 
Bushel per acre ...... we 84.5 81.4 88.6 85.9 
In the twenty plats of single eyes, twelve by forty-four inch 
spaces, same fertilizer employed : 
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