REPORT OF MR. W. S. BLAIR 



819 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Experiments with Onions. 



Variety. 



Golden Globe 



Australian Brown 



Australian Yellow Globe . 



Prizetaker 



Large Red Wethersfield . . 



Remarks. 



Matured good. 



Matured fair. 



EARLY POTATOES. 



Eight varieties of early potatoes were planted on a light loam. The grouncl wa5 

 manured at the rate of 30 one-horse cart loads of stable manure per acre the previous 

 fall. This was worked \xp in the spring and rows were made 2J feet apart and about 

 4 inches deep with the double mouldboard plough. The seed was planted one foot apart 

 in the rows and covered about 4 inches deep. The ground was later harrowed over 

 once, and after being cultivated several times between the rows the plants, when six 

 inqjies high, were hilled up by using the double mouldboard plough. 



The object of this experiment was to determine which variety would produce the 

 largest quantity of marketable tubers for the early market. The seed was planted May 

 18, and the first digging was on August 5, and the second on August 18. The Irish 

 Cobbler again produced the largest quantity of marketable tubers. The Early Andes 

 deserves special mention for its quality. The following table gives the yield per acre 

 from these plots. Each plot was one row 66 feet long: — 



Experiments with Early Potatoes. 



Early Michigan.. 



Early Andes 



Bovoe 



Early Envoy 



Pearces Ex. Early 



Early Sunrise 



Rochester Rose . , 

 Irish Cobbler 



Dug August 5. 



Not 

 Marketable. 



Bush. Lbs. 



53 



38 

 75 

 72 

 70 

 78 

 72 

 53 



54 

 30 

 54 

 36 

 24 

 6 

 36 

 54 



Dug August 18. 



Not 

 Marketable. 



Bush. Lbs. 



38 

 22 

 33 

 24 

 38 

 26 

 26 

 S3 



30 



12 

 30 

 24 

 24 



