120 



EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



9-10 EDWARD VII., A. 1910 



Potatoes — Test of Varieties — Thirty Most Productive Varieties in Uniform Plots, 



1908. 



3 



1 



2 

 3 

 4 



5 

 6 

 7 

 8 

 9 

 10 

 11 

 12 

 13 

 14 

 15 

 16 

 17 

 18 

 19 

 20 

 21 

 22 

 23 

 24 

 25 

 26 

 27 

 28 

 29 

 30 



Name of Variety. 



Quality. 



Extra Early Hero 



Woodbury's White Rose 



From T. Rowan, McGregor, Man. 



King Edward (Wilson's) 



Early Harvester White 



Nebraska 



New Early Standard 



Early Petoskey 



White Beauty 



Planet 



White Giant 



Pinnacle Beauty 



Snow 



Perfection 



Johnson's No. 2 . . . 



Improved Early Ohio 



Barkley 's Seedling 



Hick's Jubilee 



Star of the East 



New Reliance 



White Ohio 



Sutton's Sion House 



Sutton's Prolific 



Dalmeny Beauty 



Sirdar 



Solanum Commersonii Violet 



Prince Albert 



Sir John Llwellyn 



Dewey 



Immigrant 



Good. 



Good. 



Medium. 



Medium . 

 Good...'. 



Good . 



Medium. 

 Good . . . . 



Total 



Yield per 



Acre. 



Yield per 



Acre, 

 Market- 

 able. 



Bush. lbs. Bush, lbs 



325 



316 



308 



275 



275 



270 



266 



261 



255 



2.55 



253 



253 



250 



250 



244 



235 



231 



220 



215 



213 



212 



200 



198 



193 



193 



189 



182 



182 



182 



176 



24 



48 



36 

 12 

 48 

 12 

 12 



48 

 48 

 12 

 24 



36 

 24 

 12 

 12 



36 

 36 

 12 

 36 

 36 

 36 



303 

 281 

 290 

 226 

 264 

 261 

 253 

 235 

 233 

 244 

 244 



167 

 158 

 151 

 167 

 171 

 176 

 15S 

 171 

 1&8 



24 

 36 

 24 

 36 



48 



24 



12 

 12 



12 



239 48 

 237 36 

 220 .. 

 233 

 220 

 173 

 200 

 195 



12 



48 

 12 



48 



180 24 

 209 .. 



12 

 24 

 48 

 12 

 36 



24 

 36 

 24 



Yield per 

 Acre, Un- 

 market- 

 able. 



Bush. lbs. 



24 

 35 

 17 

 48 

 11 



8 

 13 

 26 

 22 

 11 



8 

 13 

 13 

 30 

 11 

 15 

 57 

 19 

 19 

 33 

 13 

 33 

 39 

 41 

 26 

 17 



6 

 24 

 11 

 17 



12 

 36 

 24 



48 

 12 

 24 



48 



Colour. 



48 

 12 



36 

 48 

 24 

 36 

 36 

 12 



36 



Pink. 

 White. 



12 Pink or reddish. 



12 White. 



48 



Pink. 



24 



12 I „ 

 48 White. 



Pale pink. 



Pink. 



White. 



Violet. 

 White. 



SMALLER- PLOTS OF POTATOES. 



The number of varieties grown in plots smaller than the uniform test plots in 

 1908 was 119. Of these only the ten most productive are given. 



Potatoes — Yields from Smaller Plots — Ten Most Productive Varieties — Thirty-three 



Sets Planted. 



u 

 S 



1 

 2 

 3 

 4 

 5 

 6 

 7 

 8 

 9 

 10 



Name of Variety. 



Montcalm 



Vulcan 



The Cottar. .. . 

 King of Michigan 



Noxall 



Ireland 



Dewey Rose 



Orphans 



Clyde 



Ramona 



Total 



Yield per 



Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



391 

 325 

 303 

 294 

 290 

 255 

 246 

 202 

 202 

 198 



36 

 36 

 36 

 48 

 24 

 12 

 24 

 24 

 24 



Yield 



per Acre 



Marketable. 



Bush. Lbs. 



338 

 299 

 277 

 2S1 

 286 

 220 

 206 

 193 

 ISO 

 136 



48 

 12 

 12 

 36 



48 

 36 

 12 

 24 



Yield 

 per Acre, 

 Unmarket- 

 able. 



Bush. Lbs. 



52 

 26 

 26 

 13 



4 



35 

 39 



8 



13 

 61 



48 

 24 

 24 

 12 

 2t 

 12 

 3fi 

 48 

 12 

 36 



