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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1872
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116 SEVENTY-SIX. VARIETIES OF POTATOES. The potatoes on this plat and adjoining the barn, as well as along the roadway left north of the plats, were from seed donated by the Michigan Agricultural College, and (the Breese's Peerless) planted May 13th, 17th and 18th—one piece of three acres in hills, at wide distances, 4x4 feet. The late planting and unfavorable season made the yield small, but sufficient for more extended experimentation the coming year. Seventy-six varieties were planted. They were attacked both by the Colorado beetle and three-lined beetle • but by the use of Paris green, arsenic, and hand-picking, their mischief was checked to a considerable extent. They were cultivated June 19th and 27th, and July 7th and 19th; hoed June 19th, and dug October 27th. The following is the list of varieties, and the yield-: VARIETIES. Tubers of good size. Rotted. Black Chenango... Black Mercers British Queen Bulkley's Seedling Calico, No. 1 Calico, ? Casto ChenangX) Chili, No. 2 Chenery Cleason [ Gleas r n 1 ]. Coldbrook's Seedling Coppermine "uzco. Davis Seedling. D elm ahoy Dodger. Early Cottage Early Don ' ' Dykeman ' ' Goodrich ' ' Hands worth . . . ' ' Indiana ' ' London White.. " Pinkeye ' ' Sovereign ' ' Stevens Excelsior Extra Early White Forfarshire Red Flukes. Irish Cups Irish Grey Jersey Peach Blow. Kearsarge Lady Finger Late Pinkeye Lapstone Kidney.. Massasoit Merc rcer.. Merino. Napoleon No Blow Old Red Orono, No. 1 Orono, No. 2 Patterson's Blue Patterson's Regent Penn. Search Warrant. Pinkeye Minnesota Pinkeye Rusty coat Prince Albert Prince of Wales Rough and Ready Russet Sebec , Seedlings' Rock Shakers' Russet Six Weeks Snow Ball Snow Flake Spotted Shad Strawberry Titicaca Yandevere's Seedling Wheeler's Mill*y White. 34 30 23 35 28 15 42 27 17 37 22 12 38 48 26 24 30 21 20 27 38 16 20 24 24 24 22 12 14 30 22 22 22 24 14 15 24 22 20 23 37 16 24 16 37 26 23 19 23 32 18 12 16 31 22 26 20 26 14 25 21 12 21 29 27 44 57 15 49 37 45 * 82 28 4 116 27 7 20 * 150 32 98 72 : 18 21 23 45 35 14 76 16 15 25 26 25 76 43 65 18 37 14 10 20 14 20 43 56 8 47 22 75 12 22 15 20 45 15 12 39 169 22 50 33 31 18 , 98 60 9 27 46 32
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