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CARROTS — Concluded. 



Variety 



Sown. 



Chantenay (Bruce) •! 



White Intermediate (Rennie) -{ 



James Intermediate (Pearce) . . -j 



Mitchell's Perfected (Pearce) [ 



Selected Altringham (Webb) ] 



Yellow Intermediate (Webb) \ 



April 9 



do 23. 



do 9 



do 23. 



do 9. 



do 23. 



do 9. 



do 23. 



do 9. 



do 23 



do 9. 



do 23. 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



Bush. lbs. 



862 53 



525 33 



635 33 



696 40 



740 40 



508 26 



498 40 



556 25 



812 2 



537 36 



905 33 



690 44 



In these also, with two or three exceptions, the results are largely in favour 

 of early sowing, 



SUGAR BEETS. 



Owing to the season being well advanced when the seed was received only one 



sowing was made. It was sown in rows 2| feet apart and the plants thinned to 



about 5 inches in the row. The soil was a gravelly loam. The land was broken 



up in the fall of 1889 and planted with fodder, corn in 1890, but has not had any 



manure. Yield per 3 rows of QQ feet: — 



Lbs. 



German 455 



French ^ 515 



Yield per acre : — 



Tons. Lbs. Bush. Lbs. 



German 19 1,640 660 40 



French 22 320 755 20 



The diffeience in yield may, perhaps, be accounted for by the French beets hav- 

 ing been sown alongside of a row of apple trees which had received a light dressing 

 of burned clay and ashes in the fall of 1890, 



POTATOES, 



There were 23 varieties of potatoes planted for testing. 



The seed was cut to two qjqb to the set and planted 1 foot apart in the row, 

 and rows 3 fefct apart. Two rows 90 feet long of each variety were planted. 

 The soil, a dry sandy loam, had produced a crop of beans in 1890, and had received 

 a light dressing of manure in the fall after the bean crop M'as harvested, which was 

 thoroughly worked into the land with the disc and drag harrows. 



The potatoes were planted 25th May, Each variety was tested from time to 

 time, beginning 28th July, and the size and quality noted; also the percentage of 

 merchantable potatoes and of rotten, if any. 



Sixty-six feet of two rows of each variety was dug from ITth to 24lh October, 

 and the produce weighed. Below will bo found the weight of sound and rotten pota- 

 toes of each variety; also the percentage of merchantable potatoe<^ at each digging 

 for testing purposes, as well as at the final digging, with note of table qualities of 

 each variety. 



