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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



Potatoes — Test of Varieties. 



5-6 EDWARD VII., A. 1906 



a 



o 



4 



5 



6 



7 



8 



II 



10 



11 



12 



13 



14 



15 



16 



17 



18 



19 



20 



21 



22 



Name of Variety. 



Early Varieties. 



Maule's Thoroughbred 

 Country Gentleman . . . 



Crine's Lightning 



Rochester Rose 



Reeves Rose . 



Vick's Extra Early. . . 



Early Carter 



Early Rose 



Clarke's Pride 



Everett . . . 



Irish Cobbler 



Daybreak 



Quick Crop 



Rawdon Rose . . 



Penn Manor . , 



Early White Prize . . . . 



Peck's Early 



Pingree 



Early Sunlight . 

 Northern Beauty ...... 



Early Johnston 



Bovee 



23! Early Elkinah 



24 Early Ohio 



25 Early Andes 



26 Eureka Extra Early. . . 



27 Snowball 



28 Early Superior , . . . 



29 Early St. George 



30 Burpee's Extra Early . 



31 Early Envoy . 



32 Van Orman's Earliest . 



Quality. 



Good. 



Good., 



Good. 



Good. 



Total 



Yield per 



Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



Good. 



396 

 382 

 374 

 352 

 343 

 338 

 321 

 294 

 290 

 290 

 290 

 290 

 286 

 281 

 281 

 272 

 268 

 268 

 268 

 264 

 259 

 250 

 246 

 246 

 246 

 242 

 224 

 211 

 198 

 176 

 162 

 114 



48 



12 

 48 

 12 

 48 

 24 

 24 

 24 

 24 



36 

 36 

 48 

 24 

 24 

 24 



36 

 48 

 24 

 24 

 24 



24 



12 



48 

 24 



Colour. 



Pink. 



and white. 

 Red. 

 Pink. 



and white. 

 White. 

 Pink. 

 White. 

 Pink. 

 White. 

 Pink. 



and white. 



Pink. 

 White. 



Pink. 

 Pale pink. 

 Pink and white. 

 Pink. 



White. 

 Pink. 



and white. 



Bright pink. 



Twelve best Yielding Potatoes — Average of Five Years, 1901-05. 



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1 



2 

 3 

 4 

 5 

 6 

 7 

 8 

 9 



10 

 11 

 12 



Name of Variety. 



Number 



of Years 



under 



Test. 



Dr. Maerker 



Late Puritan 



Carman No. 1 



Money Maker 



Rural Blush 



Dreer's Standard.. . . 

 *Burnaby Mammoth 



Pearce 



I. X. L 



Canadian Beauty . . . 



Clay Rose 



Sabean's Elephant . . 



Season. 



7 

 12 

 11 

 11 

 17 

 12 

 13 



6 

 13 



8 

 11 

 11 



Very late . . 



Late 



Medium late 

 Medium .... 



Late 



II 



Medium . 



II .... 



11 .... 



II .... 

 Late . . 



Colour. 



Wliite. 



Pink and reddish. , 



White 



Pink and white 



Quality. 



Medium to good. 

 Good 



Deep pink ... 'Medium . 



White Good 



Average Yield 



per Acre, 

 1901 to 1906. 



Bush. Lbs. 



456 

 452 

 447 

 439 

 438 

 434 

 427 

 425 

 422 

 422 

 420 

 418 



43 

 46 

 55 



7 

 H 

 17 

 41 



2 

 50 

 24 

 38 



* This variety was first grown under the name of Burnaby Seedling, and then procured under the nam® 

 of Burnaby Mammoth. The average yield given is from the new strain for two years, and the old one for 

 three years. 



Smaller plots of potatoes. — This year a mucli larger number of varieties than 

 visual was tested for the first time. A number of these was imported from Great 

 Britain, but in most cases those from this source did not yield nearly as well as those 



