Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20
TIM FL Y FARM TOPICS
 by ths County Agricultural Agent
Potato Yields in the 900 Bushel Per
 Acre Club in Windham County"

Acre Club in Windham County" IL is intensely interesting to com pare potato yields of 1928. an ex- tremely wet year with 1929 an ex- acmelv dry year, particularly among members of the 300 Bashel Per Acre Club In Winhdam County only one man qualified last year air. Anthony Wollow of Wauregan produced cx- actly 300 bushels per acre of which 254 bushels were first and forty-siN hushe were seconds. Ia 1929, a dry year. Mir. Wollow produced 396 bushels of potatoes per acre, beating his total of last year by ninety-siX bushels. 97.3 per cent were hrsts, the balance were seconds and culis and this was accomplished in a dry year.
 J. L. Tanning of Brooklyn in 1928 produced 2S0 bushels per acre, l90 bushels being firsts. seventy bushels seconds and twenty bushels eulls. In 1929 Mir. Tanning produced 344 bushels as an average; ninety-one per cent of these were firsts, about four percent were seconds and the rest were culls.
 Adelard Laframboise in 1928 pro- dueed 263 bushels per acre; l9SI bushels of these were firsts, forty four bushels seconds and twenty-one bushels culls. In 1929. Mir. LaFram- boise's yield was 3s4 bushels on the average. A portion of his field yield ed at the rate of 5l3 bushels per acre. Mir LaFramboise had slightly more seconds and culls than some of the others, only eighty-nine per cent of his yield being firsts. six percent sec onds and five percent culls.
 In 1928 s. H. Peckham of East Woodstock produced 257 bushels per acre as a total yield Of these. 216 bushels were firsts. thirty-nine bush els seconds and two bushels euls. In 1929. Mr. Peckham's average was 895.5 bushels per acre. On one of his fields he averaged 324 bushels, the best portion of the field going as high as S73; ninety-one percent of his potatoes are firsts and between eight and nine per cent are seconds and culls.
 In 1928 the man that had the low est yield was Howard White of Pom fret Landing He was only able in this wet year to obtain l2s bushels. By purchasing a new sprayer and doing a better piece Of work Mir. White was able to average 3l4 bush els of potatoes per acre during 1929, dry year. About ninety-two per cent of these were firsts. The pota toes were of very good size and shape and they were clean and bright ap- bearing
 The rest of these who were in the cub in 1928 did not have any better riclds in 1929 and did not pass the 300 bushels mark and therefore rec ords were not kept. Most Of these men have the same certified seed, use approximately the same grade of fer tilizer. grade their potatoes in very
 imilar way and their field operations are done at a very similar time. How ever. there is always little or the man element mixed ans.Qne man giF- ing a little better or closer attention to some one detail or severa' details resulting in a superior yield All Of the men, even those not mentioned are not average men. They are way above the average. being leaders in their respective communities.
 This article contains some interest ing material taken from q report hy MT. A. E. Wilkinson, Vegetable Specialist. Storrs.
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 RAYMOND k. WING,
 County Agricultural Agent