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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



Mangels — Test of Varieties. 



9-10 EDWARD VII., A. 1910 



S 



a 



Name of Variety. 



Prize Mammoth Long Red . . 



Mammoth Long Red 



; Gate Post 



Yellow Intermediate 



I Giant Yellow Intermediate . 

 (i| Mammoth Red Intei mediate 

 7|Half T-ong Sugar White 



8 Crimson Champion 



9 Giant Yellow Globe 



lOlSelected Yellow Globe 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



Ist Plot. 



Bush. libs. 



709 

 69S 

 679 

 651 

 627 

 580 

 547 

 522 

 492 

 462 



30 

 30 

 15 



45 



i5 



15 

 30 

 15 

 15 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



2nd Plot. 



Bush. Lbs. 



462 

 453 

 606 

 .561 

 530 

 379 

 4H4 

 445 

 415 

 382 



45 



45 

 30 



30 

 15 

 15 



Sugar Beets — Test of Varieties. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH CARROTS. 



Six varieties of carrots were sown in uniform test-plots. These plots were 

 along.side of, and sown under the same conditions as the mangel and sugar-beet plots. 

 The following are the yields obtained: — 



Carrots — Test of Varieties. 



S 



Name of Variety. 



Improved Short White 



White Belgian ... 



Ontario Champion 



Giant White Vosges 



Half Long Chantenay 



Mammoth White Intermediate 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



1st Plot. 



Tons. Lbs. 



21 1725 



21 1100 



20 1150 



18 465 



17 1475 



16 175 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



2nd Plot. 



Bush. Lbs. 



514 

 475 

 574 

 594 

 606 

 398 



15 

 45 

 45 

 00 

 20 

 45 



