RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS WITH POTATO SETS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 351, 16 March 1889, Page 5

RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS WITH POTATO SETS.

Mr H. E. Alvokd, Director ot the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, repors in " Bulletin No. 2" the results of potato experiments mido the past season, designed to ahow the relative value ot "seed" of different sizes. The following table presents the results in a plum, forcible way :

From the abo\o experiment ib appears that the greater the quantity of seed- potatoes u°ed, the greater wns t' q product. Ami this was truo not only of the total yield, but also of the product of merchantable potatoes as distinguished from those so small as to be unu erchan table. The question arising is, would ii be economical, in otdinaiy farm practice, to use the quantity of seed potatoes indicated above as necessary, provided the results as shown by these experiments could bo secured ? It appears from the table which Prof. AWord presents that "'it pays" to use even the largest form of seed ( otatoes adopted in his tests — potatoes averaging 10 ounces in weight and requiring 60 bushels to the acre. But the mont marbd profit is shown to result from planting whole potatoes the .the of a hen's egg, at the rate oj IS bushels to the acre. -♦

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