REPORT OF AIR. WM. M. BLAIR. 



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Carrots — Test of varieties. 



Name of Variety. 



Mam. White Interme 

 diate 



Improved Short White. , 



Improved Half Long 

 White 



Iverson's Champion 



Half Long White 



Guerande or Oxheart . . . 



Carter's Orange Giant. . 



Early Gem 



White Vosges 



White Belgian 



Short Valery 



Long Scarlet Stump 

 rooted 



b, o 



Bus. lbs. 



352 .. 



528 .. 



656 40 



462 .. 



3C6 40 



220 .. 



479 36 



183 20 



381 20 



433 20 



322 40 



242 .. 



Mangels — Test of varieties. 



Evans Mam. Long Red . . 



Pearce's Canadian Giant. 



Gate Post 



Steele's Mam. Long Red. 



Carter's Warden Orange 

 Globe 



Rennie's Mam. Long Red 



Giant Yellow Interme- 

 diate 



Prize Long Red 



Golden Tankard 



633 20 



799 20 



865 20 



997 20 



667 20 



696 40 



630 

 572 

 611 



40 

 30 



Sugar Beets. — Test of varieties. 



Klein Wanzleben 



Vilmorin's Improved. , 

 French Red Top , 



601 20 

 647 20 

 550 .. 



Experiment to Ascertain the Effect of Different Quantities of Manure per 



Acre on Turnips. 



The land selected for this experiment was sandy loam, and was apparently alJ in 

 the same state of fertility ; the previous crop was buckwheat. 



One acre received twenty 30-bush cart loads of well-rotted manure per acre. One, 

 thirty 30-bush. cart loads, and one, forty 30-bush. cart loads per acre, which was spread 

 and ploughed in. In addition two barrels of general fertilizers were used to the acre. 



The results were different from what was expected, probably due to the dry sum- 

 mer. Further experiments will be conducted along this line another year. 

 First plot 20 loads per acre, yielded 578 bushels per acre. 

 Second plot 30 loads per acre, gave 541 bushels per acre. 

 Third plot 40 loads per acre, yielded 536 bushels per acre. 



