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The yields of the half-plats were: 
Good potatoes. Total. 
Or. 3) Right-hand atts ey ob es 2's bee - 167.5 bush. 270.2 bush. 
Tieft-Hantien ee cs «0 sta teeta 18079 ae QI4. OTE 
O. 4. Right-hand\nalr oy... oo ees 136 “OViees 282.3 <* 
Teeit-hangenmi er els. sc cds meets 192.8453 Ree ogee 
As we observe that the variation in the yield of the half-plats is 
greater than between the plats, we can correctly interpret the results 
of the figures as duplicates, and can reason that the direction of cut in 
the seed did not influence the crop. | 
In the garden plats with many varieties, the result, as is to be seen 
in the report of the Horticulturist, was similar. 

In our trial of early and late planting, the figures are strongly in 
favor of early planting. It is possible, however, that variety influence 
might apply here, and that with other varieties than the White Star 
the facts would not hold. In C. eleven, C. twelve and C, thirteen, no 
fertilizer was used, and the conditions were presumably equivalent in 
all, except the date of planting. ‘The seed used was single eyes. 
PLANTED. Large. Small. Rotten. 
Ovals April 2a pases. 753 Ibs. 9 ozs. 65 Ibs. 5 ozs, 84 Ibs. 6 ozs. 
Orn 2s)May 24) 20 0 civ els DLO eA) Eee She eA s eae ats iP Wal ot 4 Nasi 
OS TBS) OBC eater ete ROO Leta Bs UE ge rN Mein fy 
Or calculated to the acre: 
Large. Small. Rotten. Total, 
CORT Ment Abbi fo 251.2 bush. 21.8 bush. 28.1 bush. 301.1 bush. 
Gd ats Beas ce 191 16 és mR Sa RL Spats Pye oaths 
ads San easy TO 47 is 216.05 13.34.2485 116.458 
There exists quite a diversity of opinion among farmers as to the 
portion of potato to plant. It is a custom with many to cut off and 
reject the seed end, and the results of trials, oftentimes conflicting, are 
quite often given to the public as proving one theory or another. When 
these experiments, however, are carefully studied, it becomes evident 
that the terms of the problem do not admit of exact representation in 
figures, but should rather be expressed in terms of greater or less, 
As a contribution toward experiments to determine whether one 
portion of the potato is more valuable for seed than another, we, this 
year, laid ont plat C. five to be planted with single eyes, in order, as 
cut from the potato. The potatoes used, the White Star variety, fur- 
nished from nine to twenty-seven eyes apiece, and thirty potatoes fur- 
nished the eyes requisite for planting one-twentieth of an acre in drills 
three and a half feet apart, each seed being placed at one foot distance 
in the drill. At harvest time each potato was gathered in three por- 
tions, to be designated as the stem third, the central third, and the 
seed-end third. . ’ 
