226 REPORT OF THE FARM SUPERINTENDENT OF THE 






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PURE TS Toe ee otk Hea eee Ba See beee tae 1 2. 6. 33 67. 
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PIC Be eee ao ke ee ee nen a ees 0 2: 3 on 35. 
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PLS Bel Te sere et dite SU eto ee See 0 a 3. 132 pf 
LE Rake See os OSES ae Seeds ee Se aw 0 oe 0. 3. 15. 
PISS Tote a a cS oe eas es On aI Ea 0 or 4, Ll: 35. 
ELH ad boti © bot Oe SN IN cers Sd ahh eba eee eEres 0. 3. 4, 10. 31 
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Rer-ecent or ills missing «460 osseous 0.15 1.13 2.5 7.8 24.5 


While there was no regularity in the vegetation or blossoming, 
on the whole the cut seed was later than the whole seed, and the 
finer it was cut the more was this difference. 
Early in the season the tops, where whole and half seed had 
been planted, made a good, strong, bushy growth, but there was 
almost a regular gradation from the rows where whole and half 
seed was planted, down to the row in which the seed was one eye 
per hill, and in the latter the tops were few and comparatively weak. 
This difference continued throughout the season, though consider- 
ably less marked toward the end of the time, during which the 
tops remained green. 
Below is given the amount of seed planted per plat, and per 
acre by each method separately,, and the aggregate shows the 
average rate of seeding: 
Below the rate of seeding is given the amount of sound 
“merchantable” and “small” tubers from each plat by each 
method of seeding. Where there were missing hills the crop has 
been increased to a full stand by calculation. 
At the end of each line opposite the number of the plat is given 
the yield of sound “ merchantable” and “ small” tubers per plat, 
and the same calculated per acre. 
At the bottom are the total footings of each column, which — 
shows the yield of ‘“ merchantable” and “small” tubers from one- — 3 
tenth acre by each method of seeding. These are both calculated 
per acre, and combined to show total yields per acre on the last 
line. These calculations have been confined to sound tubers, ~ 
because of the variations which could have been introduced by ~ 
incorporating the weights of decayed tubers, which varied between — 
being only partially involved, and almost or entirely consumed. 
