REPORT OF MR. ANGUS MACEA7 

 SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



CARROTS TEST OF VARIETIES. 



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Name of A^ariety. 



Yield 

 per Acre, 

 1st Plot. 



Iverson's Champion 



(Jiant ^V'llite Vosges 



New White Intennediate 



Green-to]) White Orthe 



Ontario Champion 



Half-long White 



Half-long Chantenay 



Long Yellow Stumv)-rooted . . . 



Improved Short White 



Early Gem 



Mammoth White Intermediate 



White Belgian 



Guerande or Ox-heart 



Long Orange or Surrey 



Carter's Orange Giant 



Yellow Intermediate 



White Vosges Larpe Short 



Scarlet Intermediate 



Long Scarlet Altringham .... 

 Scarlet Nantes 



Tons. 



17 

 16 

 15 

 14 

 14 

 14 

 14 

 14 

 13 

 12 

 11 

 11 

 11 

 11 

 10 

 10 



9 



8 



7 



6 



Yield 

 per Acre, 

 Ist Plot. 



Yield 

 per Acre, 

 2nd Plot. 



Yield 

 per Acre, 

 2nd Plot. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH SUGAR BEETS. 



Nine varieties of sugar beets were tested in 1902. The first sowing was made on 

 May 28, the second on June 7, and the roots from both were pulled on October 3. 



SUGAR BEETS TEST OF VARIETIES. 



Name of Variety. 



Imperial 



Danish Improved. . . . 



Royal Giant 



Danish Red Top 



Vilmorin's Improved 



Red Top Sugar 



Wanzleben 



French Very Rich . . . 



Yield per 



Acre. 

 Ist Plot. 



Bush. Lbs. 



390 

 362 

 340 

 320 

 278 

 276 

 258 

 198 



Yield per 



Acre. 

 2nd Plot. 



Tons. Lbs. 



8 

 8 

 9 

 5 

 5 

 9 

 6 

 6 



1,040 

 1,040 



480 

 1,520 



320 



1,920 

 960 



Yield per 



Acre. 

 2nd Plot. 



Bush. Lbs. 



284 

 284 

 308 

 292 

 172 

 300 

 232 

 216 



EXPERIMENTS WITH POTATOES. 



Eighty-nine varieties of potatoes were under trial during 1902. Tliese were planted 

 on May 7 in drills 2i feet apart with the sets about 14 inches apart. The soil was clay 

 loam, summer-fallowed. The potatoes were dug October 2, and the yield per acre has 

 lieen estimated from the weight of tubers in one row 132 feet long. There was no lot 

 observed in any of the vai-ieties. 

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