The tests reported in this bulletin concern methods of culture as well as merits of varieties. The trench system of planting was compared with the "usual" system, the trenches being "made eight inches deep, and manure or cotton seed hull ashes put in the bottom of the furrows and mixed with dirt; then potatoes planted and furrow filled until it was level with the surface." Comparisons were also made with plantings 14 and 20 inches apart in the row, and various methods of fertilizing and of cutting the seed were given attention. The experiments with fertilizers are particularly suggestive and timely, and they show that potash fertilizer is essential to the best potato culture. The general conclusions of the various experiments are as follows, "1. Many new varieties produced a larger yield than either the Early Rose or Burbank. Notably among the large yielders may be named the Irish Wonder, producing 389, Gen. Logan 296, Lombard 281, American Magnum Bonum 280 bushels per acre, while the Burbank and Early Rose produced respectively 209 and 184 bushels per acre. 2. The trench system of planting produced no marked effect as to the yield over the usual method of planting.

The yield was greater in 48 out of 55 trials where potatoes were planted 14 inches apart in the row than where plant" ed 20 inches. On the contrary, the proportion of large to small potatoes was in favor of the 20-inch planting.

Washing Grapes.

Are the Grapes Poisonous?

Strawberry Diseases.

3. Planting large whole potatoes largely increased the yield over planting potatoes cut to two eyes, or cut in two, or small whole potatoes. The yield was in proportion to the weight of seed potatoes planted. 4. The yield was largely increased by the use of fertilizers containing potash. Where fertilizers containing no potash were used, no increased yield was obtained. 5. A profit was obtained by applying potash fertilizers, or fertilizers in which potash is one of the ingredients".