ELKHART.

The crop of potatoes was generally light, and in some localities affected by the rot.

HENDRICKS.

Both Irish and sweet potatoes are cultivated. Some farmers devote particular attention to this business, and it is believed that no other branch of husbandry pays better than this does. Of Irish potatoes the mercer or white neshanoc is undoubtedly the best for table use, next to this the shaker blue is foremost, yet the prairie. queen and pinkeye are much admired. The best system of cultivation is to plant on virgin soil well mellowed, in rows three and a half feet apart, and eighteen inches apart in the row. They are cultivated once when first through the ground, then hoed, and then plowed so as to hill them slightly, taking particular care not to work them too late, and thus injure the new setting tubers; with this the work is done. Harvesting may be performed by plowing them out of the ground with a large breaking plow. This plan is more wasteful than digging, but the scarcity of laboring hands would partly justify it.

HUNTINGTON.

The most productive variety in this county is the yellow pinkeye. The best varieties for table use are the white pinkeye and the neshanoc. The ground is

prepared by plowing and harrowing, and pulverizing with stable and chip manure. The average yield per acre is from one hundred to one hundred and fifty bushels. The production of this crop will cost from $5 to $8 to each acre, exclusive of seed. The price will range from 15 cents to $1 25 per bushel.

JEFFERSON.

Large quantities of this excellent root are raised both for home consumption and for export. The best time. for planting varies with different years, but early plantings have of late years given the best crops for all purposes, all things being considered. The neshanoc is thought to be the best variety for our county, although some farmers have planted the long red potato with good results. This variety gives a better yield than the neshanoc, but it is not so good for table use.

LAGRANGE.

Potatoes are extensively cultivated throughout the county. The soil is well adapted to their cultivation. They are destined to be an important article of trade and commerce in this region. The quantity raised this year more than doubled the quantity produced in any previous year. The average yield per acre was about two hundred and fifty bushels. The prevailing price this fall has been twenty cents per bushel.

LAPORTE.

The most valuable varieties are the Mercer, pinkeye, Mexican, and Russet, either of which is good. The method of cultivating is about the same as corn, with the additional use of the hoe, which cannot be dispensed with. The cost of raising is about ten cents per bushel. The price this season has been twenty-five cents. This has suffered recently but very little from disease.

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MARION.

The most profitable varieties of potatoes in cultivation Merinoes and in this county are the Shaker Blues. Pinkeyes are not now so extensively cultivated in this county as formerly, on account of their liability to rot. The most successful planting is to lay off the prepared ground both ways of the field, the rows two-and-a-half feet apart, cutting the large and dropping the small potatoes, averaging two eyes to the hill. When hill potatoes are planted, they should be plowed three times; usually one hoeing is sufficient. There was a large yield of potatoes this year; on an average from one hundred to one hundred and fifty bushels to the acre; In the some obtained two hundred bushels to the acre. fall, potatoes sold at Indianapolis for thirty cents, and afterwards at fifteen cents per bushel; average, twentyfive cents.

MARSHALL.

The pinkeye, Iowa, blue and white neshanoc, and peach blows are considered to be the best varieties. The

method of planting is to plow deeply and cross mark about three feet asunder. The yield per acre is about two hundred bushels. The cost is about twelve dollars per acre, and the market price is about twenty-five cents per bushel.

MORGAN.

Very little attention is paid to the cultivation of potatoes for an export crop, and no surplus is produced with the intention of exporting. The yield and cultivation is that of a home product.

ST. JOSEPH.

The premium crop of potatoes at the late fair measured four hundred and forty bushels to the acre. No statements were filed concerning cultivation, but no manure was used in the preparation of the ground.

OHIO AND SWITZERLAND DISTRICT.

The white and black neshanoc are regarded as the most profitable varieties. The white variety produces about one hundred, and the black about two hundred bushels per acre. The price during the present season has been from twenty-five to thirty-five cents per bushel.

TIPPECANOE.

The most esteemed varieties in general cultivation are the neshanoc, the white pinkeye, the peach blossom, and the round pinkeye, (yellow flesh). The last named is the largest, most hardy and prolific, but by no means the best. They have as yet escaped the blight or potato rot, that has so seriously affected the other varieties named. The usual method pursued in planting, is to drop the seed in drills three feet apart, spacing the seed in the drill at intervals of fifteen inches from set to set, covering them to the depth of three inches, and earthing up in the process of cultivation, which consists in harrowing once before or just after the potatoes appear above the ground, and plowing three times with the shovel plow, the last time going but once between each of the rows. The hoe is only used after the planting to cut up stray weeds or to earth up, where the plow fails. Manure is not used on the ground during the season when the crop of potatoes is raised, but barnyard manures are applied on the ground for the previous crops of corn or hay. The average yield is about one hundred bushels to the acre, and the cost of production may be estimated at twelve dollars. The ruling price in our markets for the crop of 1857 has been thirty cents per bushel.

WABASH.

The pinkeyes and Tippecanoes are regarded as the best varieties, producing the surest crops. There was less rot in the Tippecanoe this year than in any other varieThe white and black neshanocs were almost a

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