REPORT OF MR. W. S. BLAIR 



275 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



The following varieties are probably the best for general market. They matured 

 in the following cirder : Peep O'Day, and Beverly, are a few days earlier than Early 

 Cory, but the ears are not large, and the plants are not large croppers. Extra Early 

 Cory and Early Marblehead, Ford's Early Sugar, Early Fordhook, Crosby's Early Sugar, 

 FLillcr's Eaily Yellow, Canada Yellow, New Champion, and Metropolitan. A g<:od 

 selection for general planting is Beverly, Extra Early Cor}", Crosby's Extra Early, Golden 

 Bantam and New Champion. 



EARLY POTATOES. 



To test the relative value of some of the best early varieties of potatoes for early 

 market purposes 18 different sorts were planted, in rows 24 inches apart, and one foot 

 apart in the rows, on May 21, and dug August 12. The plots dug consisted each of 1 

 row 33 feet long. Eight of these varieties have been tested in this way for the past 

 three years. The ground was fertilized with complete fertilizer at the rate of 400 lbs. 

 per acre sown in the drills. The following results were obtained : — 



Early Potatoes. 



Name. 



Early Sunrise 



Early Gem 



Burpee's Extra Early 

 Pearce's Extra Early. 



Early Ohio 



CrowTi Jewel 



Bovee 



Iiish Cobbler 



Canadian Beauty 



Early Harvest 



Early Andes 



Earliest of all . 



Reeve's Rose 



Early Michigan 



Beauty of Hebron 



Rawdon Rose 



Early Rose 



Early Norther . . 



Dug Aug. 12, Dug Aug. 19, 

 1902. I 1901. 







.a 



Lbs. 



20J 

 26 



m 



32i 



28 



34 



29f 



28 



18 



23i 



26 



30 



2? 



36 



22 



2U 



30| 



38 



Lbs. 

 2 



4 



5 



<^ 



5-!! 



3 



2i 



6 

 4 



2 

 3i 

 2 

 3 



3i 





Lbs. 

 20| 



m 

 m 



21 



m 



19 

 24 



OS 



a 

 a 



Lbs. 



5i 



7i 



5^ 

 4 



7 

 4 

 6 

 6 



Dug Aug. 10, 

 19U0. 



c3 



Lbs. 

 33 



28^ 



27 



30 



42 



36 



40i 



01 



3 



Lbs. 



4i 

 9 



8i 

 12 

 6 



Remarks. 



Good, pink. 



Pink, good. 



Good, pink and white. 



(iood, pink and white. 



Good, pink. 



Good, pink and white. 



Good, pink and white. 



White, good. 



Pink and white, good. 



Good, white. 



Pink, good. 



Pink and white, good. 



Good, pink. 



Good, white. 



Pink and white, good. 



Good, pink and white. 



Good, pink. 



Good, pink. 



ONIONS. 



Twenty varieties of onions were tested under similar conditions. The seed of thes 

 ■was sown in the hot-bed April 3, and the plants were planted in the open ground o n 

 May 6. The ground into which they were transplanted was a rich loam, tlie same as 

 that on which the onions were grown the previous season. It was ploughed in the 

 spring, disc and smooth harrowed, after which 200 lbs. of complete fertilizer per acre 

 was sown broaticast and harrowed in with the smoothing harrow. The plants were set 

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