Tests are recorded of a number of varieties of potatoes. An experiment with fertilizers gave the following results: "(1) Potash, in both forms [muriate and kainit], gave the smallest increase. (2) Stable manure and complete fertilizers indicate the best results; larger quantities of potash in either form, combined with a complete fertilizer, did not increase the yield, but seemed rather injurious in the case of kainit. The same result is recorded when the potash salts have been used alone. (3) The percentage of increase where acid phosphate alone was used is quite marked, but together with potash or cotton seed meal, no gain is indicated. (4) Cotton seed meal alone shows a gain of about 50 per cent. (5) Where stable manure was applied the number of scabby potatoes was the largest, as well, also, as the yield of marketable potatoes. (6) The results seem to warrant the conclusion that a fertilizer containing all the food elements in the same proportion and in available form, as a good stable manure, give the largest increase, and that incomplete fertilizers, while they show a gain over the unfertilized plots, are not remunerative".

Potatoes from different latitudes were planted. Those from Ohio vegetated first and southern seed last, but in yield " the results of the experiment direct decidedly in favor of southern grown seed, and as with somewhat favorable condition a paying second crop can be produced, very often larger than in spring, we can not strongly enough urge our farmers to raise their own seed." "To determine the difference of production, if any, of seeds cut within different times of planting, medium sized tubers of the Early Rose variety were selected and cut to three eyes, ten and five days before, and on the day of planting. * * * The results were slightly in favor of cutting the day of planting; but the season was dry, while in a wet season the result might have been reversed, on account of the dried pieces being better able to resist the tendency to rot before sprouting. Further trials will be necessary before we can draw any positive conclusions".

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