254 REPORT OF THE FARM SUPERINTENDENT OF THE 
The whole was carefully mixed together and applied at the rate 
of 500 pounds per acre, by weighing out an aliquot part for each 
row. | 
These plats were planted May eighteenth, and were given the 
same treatment as the other B plats, being cultivated and hoed at 
the same times, and slightly hilled up at the last hoeing to cover 
any tubers which grow near the surface. 
The seed planted on these plats was the same as on the other 
plats B 8 to 14, except that the two rows in which the seed was 
alike and equal were here adjacent. Thus, in rows one and two 
whole tubers weighing fifteen pounds per row were the seed used. 
In the next two rows the seed was half tubers, weighing seven and 
one-half pounds per row, and in the succeeding three pairs of 
of rows three-eye, two-eye and one-eye cuttings, weighing respec- 
tively three pounds, two pounds and one pound per row, were 
planted. 
As in the above experiments the missing hills at harvest have 
been supplied by calculation in table below, which shows the 
effect of location of fertilizer below or above the seed. | 
