New York AcricutturaL Expertment Srarion. 245 
SEED PLANTED ON SURFACE OR IN FURROW. 
On two one-tenth acre plats on which the seed was whole 
tubers, halves, three, two and one-eye cuttings, the two rows with 
each form of seed were planted adjacent to each other and in the 
odd numbered rows the seed was dropped on the surface and 
covered with a hoe to about the same depth that the even num- 
bered rows were covered in furrows. All received the same 
treatment afterward, and when hilled up, as they all were slightly 
at the last hoeing, no one could detect any difference in the pairs 
of rows. No difference was discernable in the growth or appear- 
ance of tops between the pairs of rows, but as between one pair 
and another there was great difference as noted under methods 
of seeding. 
The record shows that the casualties were only two-thirds as 
great for the small seed when planted on the surface as when 
buried in a furrow, but that when missing hills are added into the 
result at the average rate of those actually harvested the yield 
was a little more from furrows than from an equal amount of 
seed planted on the surface. This difference, however, is very 
small and is far within the possibilities of duplication of plats. 
When increased to acre proportions it is only four and one-half 
bushels, not enough to cause anyone to depart from his custom 
in planting if that has been on the surface. 
