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EXPEHIMENTAL FARMS 



2-3 EDWARD VII., A. 1903 

 CORN SOWN IN ROWS AT DIFFERENT DISTANCES APART. 



Experiments were again conducted, with Indian Com sown in rows at different 

 distances apart, Champion White Pearl, Selected Learning and Longfellow were the 

 varieties sown. 



The land on which these were sown was similar and received the same treatment 

 in eveiy respect as the corn plots. The seed was sown May 31 in rows 21, 28, 35 and 

 42 inches apart. The crop was harvested October 3. The plots were one-fortieth acre each, 



CORN PLANTED AT DIFFERENT DISTANCES APART. 



Sown May 31. 



Name of Variety. 



Selected Learning. 



Champion White Pear], 



Longfellow . 



EXPERIMENTS WITH TURNIPS. 



The land on which the turnips were grown was clay loam and the previous crop 

 was clover. The ground was manured in the fall with 15 one-horse cart loads of stable 

 manure per acre and ploughed. In the spring it was harrowed with the disc and sprino-- 

 tooth harrows, and 15 one-horse cart loads of stable manure again spread broadcast and 

 ploughed in. The land was then gone over with the disc, spring tooth and smoothing 

 harrow, and 200 pounds of complete fertilizer and 200 lbs. bone meal per acre sown 

 broadcast and harrowed in v/ith the smoothing harrow. 



The ground was then run into rows 24 inches apart, the rows were raked off by 

 hand and marks were made along the top, where the seed Avas dropped and lightly 

 covered. 



The plots were sown May 20, and duplicate ones two weeks later, June 3. The 

 roots were pulled October 30, and the quantity per acre calculated from the wei-^^'ht of 

 the crop obtained from two rows each 66 feet long. 



