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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



CORN GARDEN VARIETIES. 



Name of Variety. 



Mitchell's Extra Early 



Dreer's First of all 



Extra Early Vermont. 

 Cory 



Date of 

 Sowing. 



May 29.. 



" 29.. 



" 29.. 



" 29.. 



Up. 



June 11. . July 13 



Tasselled. 



12. 



11. 



11. 



21. 



24. 

 20. 



Fit for Length 

 table. of ear. 



Aug. 8. 



14. 



16.. 

 26.. 



Inches. 

 3i too 



4 to 6 



4 toS 

 3ito6 



Remarks. 



Not a first class table corn, 

 not sweet and it gets glazed 

 and hard very quickly after 

 being fit for table. 



Cobs filled out with large ker- 

 nels, remaining fit for table 

 a long time, quality good. 



Cobs filled out with medium 

 sized kernels of fair quality. 



Cobs well filled, kernels large, 

 and very tine in quality, 

 remaining fit for table a long 

 time, one of the best table 

 corns. 



Horse beans and Russian sunflowers for Ensilage. 



A quantity of Early Mazagan horse beans were sown in drills, 24 inches apart, for 

 mixing with corn, and sunflower heads, for ensilage. 



They matured fairly well and yielded at the rate of 1h tons per acre. 

 The sunflower heads yielded at the rate of nearly 4£ tons per acre. 



Experiments with Potatoes. 



Forty-six varieties of potatoes were tested side by side on a rich loamy soil in rows 

 2\ feet apart, with sets one foot apart in the rows. The season was not a good one for 

 potatoes, the dry weather, which began in June and continued until the tubers were 

 nearly full grown, very much reduced the yield especially of some varieties, the quality, 

 however, is in most cases very good. The yields per acre have been calculated from the 

 weight of the crop obtained from two rows each 66 feet long 



