. Ok seeds. Nursery stock Indiana Indianapolis Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. Yov, can raise 300 bags of White Mountain Potatoes per acre. W. B. Hall's yield was %l$ bus. per acre. Next best was 167 bus. Almost 50 per cent gained by planting White Mountain. I find, after testing the White Mountain Potato, both for yield and quality, that it has great merit. They are the talk of this country around who have seen them. It's a distinct new variety. It's the strongest grower I ever seen ; growing away from blight and bugs and makes a
. Ok seeds. Nursery stock Indiana Indianapolis Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. Yov, can raise 300 bags of White Mountain Potatoes per acre. W. B. Hall's yield was %l$ bus. per acre. Next best was 167 bus. Almost 50 per cent gained by planting White Mountain. I find, after testing the White Mountain Potato, both for yield and quality, that it has great merit. They are the talk of this country around who have seen them. It's a distinct new variety. It's the strongest grower I ever seen ; growing away from blight and bugs and makes a crop when others fail. C. S. C, Huron Co.,0. I send you the following result of tests of 4 varieties of potatoes, all planted May 28, all harvested September [27. The yield is given at rate per acre. All had exactly the same treatment: Carman No. 3, 132^ bus.; May- flower, 127% bus.; Seneca Beauty, 167 bus.; White Mountain, 343 bus. W. B. H., Huron Co., O. We are not able to give a very favorable report of our test of potatoes for this year, owing to the very unfavor- able weather. The White Mountain you will find in the list below. We will say, that as far as our test goes, your variety is promising. The tubers are uniform in iBize, regular in shape, and do not show a tendency to "become prongy. On the whole, I think that it is a pro- mising variety. The 1898 tests follow. The yields are per acre: Sir Walter Raleigh 126 Bus. , Sir William 145 " Early Michigan 79 " Rural New Yorker 96 " Enormous 124 " Early Rose US " Maule's Early Thoroughbred 105 " Carman No. 3 149 " Bovee 122 " White Mountain 158 " W. J. GREEN, Horticulturist of Ohio Agr. Experiment Station. The White Mountain Potato was planted May 3, and dug September 10. It made a very large, vigorous growth, with thick stalk and stocky vines. The tubers were very compact in the hills and all large—no small ones at all. There was no record kept of the yields. I am very mu
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