REPORT OF TEE DIRECTOR 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



MILLETS TEST OF VARIETIES. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH MIXED ROOTS AND WITH MIXED ROOTS AND 



VEGETABLES. 



This experiment, first tried last year, has been repeated during the past season- 

 Five rows were sown about 100 feet long and two feet apart. The seed was put in about 

 the usual thickness and the plants subsequently thinned. They were sown on May 1 2. 

 The vegetables were gathered about the middle of September and the roots pulled late 

 in October. It is evident that any farmer may supply his household with an assortment 

 of vegetables with very little labour or expense by the adoption of this simple method. 



Mi.\ed Roots and Roots and Vegetables. 



Plot 1— Mangels and turnips 



II 2 — Mangels, carrots and turnips 



II 3— Carrots and turnips 



I, 4— Mangels and carrots 



Carrots, turnips, cabbage, tomatoes and parsnips- 

 Tons. 



Plot 5— Yield per acre of cabbage 14 



II II tomatoes ... 5 



II 11 turni| s 5 



II 11 carrots 4 



II ti parsnips .... 



Lbs. 

 1,535 

 1,880 



230 

 1,405 

 1,650 



Yield 

 per acre. 



Tons. Lbs. 



46 730 



42 480 



36 1,260 



33 1,980 



31 



700 



SPECIAL EXPERIMENTS WITH FERTILIZERS. 



• 

 In the annual report of the Experimental Farms for 1893, details were given on 

 pages 8 to 24 of the results of a series of tests which were carried on during the pre- 

 vious five or six years with the object of gaining information regarding the effects 

 which follow the application of certain fertilizers and combinations of fertilizers on the 

 more important farm crops. The particulars there given covered the results of six 

 years' experience witli crops of wheat and Indian corn and five years' experience with 

 crops of oats, barley, turnips and mangels. The results of similar tests conducted for 

 three years with carrots and one year with sugar beets were also given. 



