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failed. These thirty-two eyes bah 173 tubers, weighing 
forty-seven pounds and fourteen ounces. The rate of increase 
was nearly twenty-three fold against nearly thirty-seven fold for 
the finely divided seed. Similar results are noted in Station 
Report for 1885, page 210. . But considering the yields from the 
areas covered, the eyes not removed produced more than three 
times as much as those removed. 
There is too little data on which to base a general statement, — 
even if the point were clear in regard to which eye will vegetate 
first or which is most prolific. There seems to be a preponder- 
ance of early vegetating eyes in a middle zone in,both series, but 
it is not prominent. 
As regards prolificacy so small a number of trials could hardly 
be expected to show any decisive results. The chief point of 
interest in this last connection is the harmony with the results of 
a nearly similar trial in 1885* where the larger amount of seed | 
planted apparently influenced the yield, but in that case the 
terminal eyes seem to have been rather more prolific than 
the basal ones, a relation which it is impossible to trace in this » 
data. 

* See Station Report for 1885, pages 209-210. 
