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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



SIX EARLIEST VARIETIES. 



64 VICTORIA, A. 1901 



Name of Variety. 



Early Ruby 



Spark's Earliana. 



Doniinion Day. 

 Quicksure 



Early Leader.. 

 Terrill's Early 



Seedsman. 



Steele. 



Johnson & 

 Stoke. 



Bruce .... 



.Johnson & 

 Stoke 



Vick.... 



Terrill. 



Remarks. 



Medium size, regular, smooth, 



scarlet. 

 Medium size, slightly wrinkled, 



scarlet. 

 Above medium, wrinkled, scarlet. 

 Medium size, regular, smooth, 



scarlet. 

 Medium size, wrinkled, scarlet. 

 Medium size, regular, smooth, 



scarlet. 



SIX BEST YIELDING WRINKLED VARIETIES— AVERAGE FOR FIVE YEARS. 



TWELVE BEST YIELDING SMOOTH VARIETIES— AVERAGE FOR FIVE YEARS. 



Can 1 da Victor 



Baltimore Prize Taker . 

 Bond's Early Minnesota 



Brinton's Best 



Comrade 



Early Ruby 



Mayflower 



Extra Early Advance . . 



Horsford's Prelude 



Essex Hybrid 



Atlantic Prize 



Autocrat 



Aug. 3 

 6 



July 31 



Aug. 12 

 6 



July 31 



Aug. 



15 

 14 

 14 

 14 

 14 

 13 

 13 

 13 

 13 

 13 

 12 

 12 



1 



11 



9 



6 



6 



15 



12 



12 



12 



11 



15 



11 



Medium size, smooth, scarlet. 

 Medium, size, regular, smooth, purple. 



M It 



Large, regular, smooth, scarlet. 



Medium size, smooth, scarlqt. 



Medium size, regular, smooth, scarlet. 



Large, regular, smooth, scarlet. 



Below medium size, regular, smooth, scarlet. 



Siriall, regular, smooth, scarlet. 



Above luedimn size, regular, smooth, purple. 



Medium size, smooth, regular, scarlet. 



Medium size, regular, smooth, purple. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH CORN". 



Corn is such a popular vegetable that the varieties offered for sale by the seeds- 

 men are being well tested. Last year, a list was published giving the results obtained 

 from seven-ty-six varieties which were grown. This year seventy-two varieties were 

 tested. In the following table will be found much data regarding the different sorts, 

 there being recorded the name of the seedsman from whom the seed was obtained, the 

 kimd of ( o:n, the dtite when it was fit for use i'n 1899 and 1900 ; the height in 1900 ; 

 the average length of ears for 1899 and 1900, and the average yield for 1&99 and 19U0. 



The soil in which the corn was grown this year was a light sandy loam on which 

 tobacco, which was manured well, had been grown last year. It was ploughed in the 



