The early harvest Tri-State entries fried light and uniform in color from stem to bud ends. All Photovolt readings were in the 40 - 50 range resulting in USDA "0" ratings.
| PHOTOVOLT | DIFFERENCE * | USDA | ||||
| Clone | Stem | Bud | Average | STEM - BUD | COLOR | |
| 1 | Ranger Russet | 42.0 | 42.4 | 42.2 | 6.1 | 0 |
| 2 | Russet Burbank | 47.8 | 45.9 | 46.8 | 4.3 | 0 |
| 3 | Russet Norkotah | 46.1 | 42.1 | 44.1 | 4.7 | 0 |
| 4 | Shepody | 52.5 | 52.5 | 52.5 | 2.7 | 0 |
| 5 | A94053-5 | 55.6 | 54.2 | 54.9 | 2.7 | 0 |
| 6 | A95074-6 | 53.3 | 50.3 | 51.8 | 3.5 | 0 |
| 7 | A95109-1 | 48.3 | 47.5 | 47.9 | 5.1 | 0 |
| 8 | A95409-1 | 51.9 | 49.4 | 50.6 | 5.3 | 0 |
| 9 | AO96160-3 | 54.3 | 51.9 | 53.1 | 4.7 | 0 |
| 10 | AO96164-1 | 52.8 | 48.0 | 50.4 | 6.2 | 0 |
| 11 | AOA95154-1 | 50.6 | 48.1 | 49.3 | 3.9 | 0 |
| 12 | AOA95155-7 | 51.9 | 52.6 | 52.2 | 1.9 | 0 |
| LSD 0.05 | 3.6 | 2.7 | ||||
| Average | 50.6 | 48.7 | 49.7 | 4.3 | 0 | |
| * Average of 12 individual tuber absolute differences | ||||||
| Planting Date: | April 1 | |||||
| Harvest date: | Aug. 26 | |||||
| Fried on: | Aug. 29 | |||||