232 REPorRT OF THE Farm SUPERINTENDENT OF THE — 
II. AVERAGE Resvuuts ror THREE YEARS. 
Product per acre— Three methods of seeding. 


Sinnott AN ce RNA AE PETIT A I SC EE IE SS AIT BITES AR SOE BSE A om Ne 
' FORM OF SEED POTATO. . 1885. 1886. 1888, 
WNH1G- HOUR, CHE BIZOss ocx okt ce petuah ee Teun as otees 316.0 354.0 174.36 
Usual cutting, one piece................ SE, ah ee ee 215.5 223 :87 134.24 
Single eye, on fair-sized piece... ....... cc. cect eww ecccnee 185.5 _ 109.66 90.53 

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The general result is thus emphasized: THE MORE SEED POTATO 
PLANTED THE MORE AND BETTER THE CROP. 
Since the Maryland Station has compiled a table of all the 
accessible Station results on this question of seed potatoes, it is 
here reproduced as embodying much information not elsewhere 
easily obtained by our readers. ‘The lines numbered 18 and 19 
have been incorporated from our later results. 
It will be seen that the above emphasized quotation is almost 
invariably true. : 
Comparing with the results obtained at this Station figures 
relating to similar experiments made elsewhere, we find much 
corroborative testimony as to the truth of the statement that the 
_ more seed potato planted the greater the crop. 
On the opposite page we give the figures and the sources from 
which they were obtained : ‘ 
