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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



Carrots — Test of Varieties. 



5-6 EDWARD VII., A. 1906 



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a 



Name of Variety. 



1; Mammoth Whits Intermediate. 



2 Improved Short White 



3 Ontario Champion 



4 1 Long Yellow Stump Rooted 



5 New White Intermediate 



6 Carter's Orange Giant . 



7jEarly Gem 



8[White Belgian 



9 Giant White Vosges 



10 Half-long Chantenay ... 



IIIKos Kirches 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



1st Plot. 



Bush. Lbs. 



959 45 



929 30 



863 30 



858 .. 



830 30 



792 .. 



781 .. 



767 15 



627 .. 



588 20 



464 45 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



2nd Plot. 



Bush. Lbs. 



885 30 



896 30 



750 45 



836 .. 



772 45 



694 .. 



723 15 



706 10 



574 45 



561 . . 

 442 45 



Sugar Beets — Test of Varieties. 



0) 



£ 



Name of Variety. 



Royal Giant 



Improved Imperial. . 



Red Top Sugar. 



Vilmorin's Improved 



Wanzleben 



French Very Rich . . 

 Danish Improved.. . . 

 Danish Red Top. . . . 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



1st Plot. 



Tons. Lbs. 



22 

 17 

 16 

 15 

 13 

 13, 

 12 

 9 



88 

 848 



76 

 492 

 928 

 136 



24 

 216 



Yield 

 per Acre . 



2nd Plot. 



Tons. Lbs. 



20 

 15 

 14 

 14 

 12 

 11 

 13 



1,976 

 1,548 



64 i 

 1,832 



153 



1,232 



4 



368 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



2nd Plot. 



Bush. Lbs. 



699 36 



525 48 



477 24 



497 12 



402 36 



387 12 



433 24 

 272 48 



EXPERIMENTS WITH POTATOES. 



Eorty-four varieties of potatoes were tested this year. The soil w^as a sandy loam, 

 which had a crop of vetches turned under in the spring of 1904, and was planted with 

 corn in the spring of 1904, receiving also a dressing of farm manure. 



The com was a fair crop, and as soon as it was cut in September the stubble was 

 turned under and another light dressing of strawy manure spread over it and worked 

 into the soil with the spading harrow. It was repeatedly harrowed with the spade and 

 spike tooth harrows during March and April, and when the potatoes were planted on 

 April 29 the weed seeds near the surface had been fairly well sprouted and destroyed. 

 The potatoes were sprayed twice with bordeaux in July and the tops matured without 

 appearance of blight, some varieties being quite green when they were dug Septem- 

 ber 22. The season was too dry for such a light sandy soil, but the yields were fairly 

 good and the quality of the tubers excellent. 



The yield has been calculated in each case from the weight of tubers dug from two 

 rows each sixty-six feet long. 



