The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. / Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. / How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot.

by D. A. Compton

Central Farm.—One fourth of Plot No. 11—Early Goodrich—cut tubers, yields 500 pounds, equal to 286 bushels per acre; large and whole tubers, yields 410 pounds, equal to 234 bushels per acre; medium-sized tubers, yields 419 pounds, equal to 239 bushels per acre; and small tubers, yields 486 pounds, equal to 278 bushels per acre.

3d.—Combined Diversity between Soil and Sub-soil and Common Plowing.

Central Farm.—The 4 plots, Nos. 11, 16, 116, and 416—soil and subsoil plowing—yields 6200 pounds, equal to 221 bushels per acre; the 2 plots, Nos. 216 and 316—common plowing—yields 1845 pounds, equal to but 131 bushels per acre.

4th.—Diversity between Letting all Sprouts Grow and Thinning to Three in each Hill..

Eastern Farm.—Plot No. 208: Monitors; large and whole tubers, 21½ pounds; not thinned; Moro Philips's superphosphate; yield 1174 pounds, equal to 168 bushels per acre.

Plot No. 209: Monitors; large and whole tubers, 23 pounds; thinned; Moro Philips's superphosphate; yield 1042 pounds, equal to 149 bushels per acre.

Plot No. 210: Monitors; large and whole tubers, 15 pounds; not thinned; stable manure; yield 860 pounds, equal to 124 bushels per acre.

Plot No. 211: Monitors; large and whole tubers, 14½ pounds; thinned; stable manure; yield 839 pounds, equal to 119 bushels per acre.

5th.—Diversity from Time of Cutting the Seed-Potatoes..

Plot No. 222: Monitors; cut two weeks before planting; yield 580 pounds, equal to 83 bushels per acre.