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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



CUT VERSUS WHOLE SEED POTATOES. 



A test was made as to the relative merit and cost of large and medium small cut 

 seed and medium sized whole sets. The plots were arranged as in the uniform test 

 plots, drills thirty inches apart and in the case of the cut sets one foot apart in the 

 drills, and in the wliole sets they were eighteen inches apart in the drill. 



Two plantings were made in each ease, the first April 12, and the second April 25. 



Plots 1 and 2A. — The seed was cut from large potatoes and the sets were fairly 

 large and each had not less than three eyes, and weighed on an average about 1 ounce 

 each. 



Plots 1 and 2B. — The seed was cut from smooth even average sized potatoes and 

 the sets were cut to two eyes each, and would average about | oz. each. 



Plots 1 and 2C. — The sets were whole, smooth, even-sized potatoes, averaging 

 from 2i to 3^ oz. each. 



All were dug September 21, at which time the tops were ripened and dead. 



SUMMAEY OF CEOPS. 



Tons. Lbs. 



Hay ." 114 1,900 



Corn for ensilage and in. 67 



Clover in silo 56 



Turnips 17 600 



Mangels 8 1,000 



Carrots 2 



Oats 7 1,000 



Pease 3 800 



Wheat 1 500 



Barley 2 1,000 



Potatoes 4 



FODDER PLANTS. 



The following millets and other fodder plants were tested on plots of one-fortieth 

 of an acre each. 



The millets were sown April 22, but as only about ten per cent of the seed ger- 

 minated, the plots were ploughed and sown with rape : — 



Plot 1.— Italian Millet. Plot 4.— Green California. 



Plot 2.— Pearl Millet. Plot 5.— Whit^ Round. 



Plot 3.— Hungarian Millet. Plot 6.— Penicillaria. 

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