REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 

 SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTS WITH CARROTS. 



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Nineteen varieties of carrots were under test during 1900, all sown side by side 

 adjoining the turnips and mangels. The land was similar in character and its treat- 

 ment and preparation were the same. The land was made up in drills two feet apart, 

 and rolled with a heavy land roller to make a fhnn bed before the seed was sown. Two 

 sowings were made of each sort, the first on May 16, the second on May 30. They 

 were also pulled on two different dates; the first pulling was on October 16, the second 

 on November 6. The yield per acre has been calculated from the weight of roots 

 gathered from one row 66 feet long. 



CARROTS— TEST OF VARIETIES. 



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Name of Variety. 



■^Tiite Vosges Large Short .... 



New White Intermediate 



Improved Short White 



Half Long White 



Iverson's Champion . . 



Green Top White Orthe 



Giant White Vosges 



(iuerande or Ox-Heart 



Yellow Intermediate 



Ontario Champion 



Mammoth White Intermediate 



Carter'8 Orange Giant 



Half Long Chantenay 



Early Gem 



White Belgian 



Scarlet Intermediate , 



Scarlet Nantes , 



Long Orange or Surrey , 



Long Scarlet Altringham 



Tons. Lbs. 



Average of 1st sowing, 1st pulling 27 786 



2nd .. 1st .. 22 1,763 



„ Ist M 2nd 1 30 668 



•' 2nd ti 2nd «i 25 950 



INCREASE IN CROP OF CARROTS FROM EARLY SOWING, ALSO FROM LATE PULLDJa. 



With carrots early sowing has been attended with much advantage. The average 

 yield from all the varieties from the first sowing and first pulling was four tons 

 1,003 poxmds more than was harvest^ from the second sowing. 



During the 21 days between the dates of the first and second pullings, the early 

 eown plots gained on an average 2 tons 1,902 pounds per acre, while the roots from 

 tlie second sowing during the same time made a gain of 2 tons 1,187 pounds per acre. 



