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placed a foot apart in shallow drills, three and a half feet apart and 
covered as nearly as practicable three inches deep. The plants when 
sufficiently large were hilled up with the hoe to a moderate height. 
No weeds were permitted to grow among them at any time, and the 
crop was harvested after the tops were dead. 
The cuttings were planted in rows eleven feet long, two rows of 
each variety. Thus there were twenty-two hills of each (with a 
very few exceptions). 
nthe following table, however, the yield is calculated on the 
basis of 100 planted hills. That is to say, the Adirondac, of which 
two rows, each eleven feet long, were planted, would have yielded 
127 pounds of potatoes had there been a row 100 feet long yielding 
at the same rate that the two short rows yielded: 
