REPORT OF MR. ANQV8 MACEAY 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



CARIIOTS — TEST OF VARIETIES. 



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Ten varieties were sown May 19 and were pulled October 20. The second plots 

 were not sown. 



01 



a 



1 

 2 

 3 



4 



5 

 6 



7 



8 



9 



10 



Name of Variety. 



Improved Short White 



White Belgian 



Half-long Chantenay 



Giant White Vosgos 



New White Intei:nediate 



Long Yellow Stump-rooted. . . . 



Carter's Orange Giant 



Early G em 



Mammoth White Intermediate 

 Ontario Champion 



Character of Soil. 



Clay loam. 



Yield per Ache. 



1st Plot. 



Bush. Lbs. 



238 



221 



188 



150 



140 



94 



84 



84 



58 



58 



4 

 34 

 34 



51 

 8 

 17 

 51 

 51 

 56 



.SUGAR BEETS — TEST OF VARIETIES. 



First plots sown May 19 and second plots May 27. Both were pulled October 6. 



1 



a 

 5 



Name of Variety. 



I Royal Giant , 



Danish Red Top ... 

 Improved Imperial . . 



Red Top Sugar 



Danish Improved .... 



French Very Rich 



Vilmorin's Improved 

 Wanzleben 



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Character 



of 



Soil. 



Clay loam 



Yield pek Acre. 



1st Plot. 



Tons. Lbs. 



17 

 14 

 14 

 14 

 12 

 11 

 10 

 9 



307 

 1,134 



280 



280 

 1,.598 

 1,194 

 1,921 



810 



471 

 471 

 420 

 38(1 

 365 

 313 



Bush. Lbs. 



47 

 34 

 26 

 26 

 38 

 34 

 21 

 30 



2nd Plot. 



Tons. Lbs. 



23 

 18 

 10 

 18 

 18 

 12 

 9 

 9 



388 

 1,054 

 1,094 

 1,190 

 1,478 

 43 

 1,800 

 1,058 



Bush. Lbs. 



773 

 017 

 551 

 019 

 024 

 400 

 330 

 327 



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:-4 

 31 

 50 

 38 

 43 



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EXPERIMENTS WITH POTATOES. 



Forty-one varieties of potatoes were planted on May 20. The land was fallowed 

 the same as for roots, and ten loads of manure applied per acre. 



While the potatoes were all of a fair size, sound, and of splendid quality, the yield 

 in no case was equal to that of 1903. 



The sets were dropped in drills 30 inches apart, and the potatoes were dug on 

 September 29. The yield per acre was obtained by weighing the potatoes from one 

 row 132 feet long. Soil, clay loam. There was no rot in any of the varieties. 



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