REPORT OF MR. R. ROBERTSON. 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



POTATOES-TEST OF VARIETIES-Confrnwed!. 



No. 



Name of Variety. 



58 Vick's Extra Early. . . 



59 Early Ohio 



(30 Dai.sy 



61 Reeve's Rose 



62 General Gordon 



63 Lee's Favourite 



64 Country Gentleman . . 



65 Early White Prize... 



66 Mclntyre 



67 Early Rose . , 



68 Earliest of all 



69 Pearce's Extra Early. 



70 State of Maine 



71 Houlton Ro.se 



72 Chicago Market 



73 lEarly Michigan 



74 Lizzie's Pride 



75 Reading Giant 



76 Late Puritan 



77 Brownell's Winner. . . 



78 Rural No. 2 



79 Polaris 



80 Early Sunrise 



81 'Penn Manor 



Total 



Yield per 



Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 

 396 .. 

 385 .. 

 385 .. 

 378 

 376 

 307 

 363 

 300 

 300 

 360 

 354 

 352 

 347 

 334 

 334 

 330 

 330 

 330 

 330 

 325 

 308 

 272 

 259 

 220 



24 

 12 

 24 



48 

 48 

 48 

 12 



36 

 24 



24 



36 



48 

 36 

 36 



Yield 

 per Acre 



of 

 Sound. 



Bush. Lbs. 

 345 24 



336 

 330 

 334 

 279 

 290 

 21)2 

 301 

 343 

 299 

 341 

 303 

 325 

 275 

 275 

 275 

 297 

 330 

 277 

 288 

 2(58 

 261 

 200 

 158 



36 

 36 

 24 

 24' 

 24 

 36 

 24 

 12 

 12 



36 

 36 



12 

 12 

 24 

 48 

 12 

 24 



Yield 

 per Acre 

 of Market- 

 able. 



Bush. Lbs. 

 280 .. 



270 

 242 

 253 

 222 

 226 

 220 

 231 

 292 

 244 

 204 

 231 

 264 

 209 

 231 

 220 

 220 

 242 

 226 

 215 

 242 

 187 

 160 

 136 



36 



12 

 36 



36 

 12 



36 

 36 



36 

 24 



Yield ' 

 per Acre 



of Un- 

 market- 

 able. 



Bush. Lbs. 

 ,59 24 

 66 .. 

 94 

 81 

 57 

 63 

 72 

 70 

 50 

 55 

 77 

 72 

 01 

 66 

 44 



50 



72 



26 



74 



39 

 00 



36 

 24 

 12 

 48 

 30 

 24 

 30 



36 

 36 



36 

 36 

 24 



48 

 30 



Form and Colour. 



Oval, white. 

 Long, pink. 



11 pink and white. 



11 pink. 

 Oblong, pink. 

 Round, white. 

 Long, pink and white. 

 Round, white. 



M II and blue. 



Long, pink. 



Round, white. 

 Long, pink. 



II red. 



II white. 



II pink. 

 Oval, pink. 

 Long, white. 



11 pink. 

 Round, white. 

 Long II 



M pink. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH SOJA AND HORSE BEANS SOWN AT DIFFERENT 



DISTANCES APART. 



Experiments, as conducted last year, with soja and horse beans sown at different 

 distances apart, were again carried on this season. The object being to determine 

 whether rows planted closely together will give as large, or larger, returns per acre 

 than those further apart, and also a comparison of these two crops. 



The soil was a clay loam,! and twenty-five one-horse cart-loads of stable manure 



per acre was ploughed under in the spring, and worked up with the disc, spring-tooth, 



and smoothing harrows. The beans were sown with the seed drill June 13, in plota 



of one-fortieth acre each. The crop was cut October 4, and yields per acre obtained as 



follows : — CI ' T, 



oo]a Beans. 



Distance apart. Yield per acre. 



Inches. Tons. Lbs. 



^1 5 1,200 



28 4 1,900 



35 4 1,700 



Horse Beans. 

 Distance apart. Yield per acre. 



Inches. ' Tons. Lbs. 



21 7 



28 6 1,100 



35 7 500 



EXPERIMENTS WITH FLAX. 



The soil was similar, and received the same treatment, as that on which the barley 

 plots were gBOwn. The plots were one- fortieth of an acre each. The object of the 

 experiment was to gain information as to the best time for sowing, and the quantity 

 of seed that should be sown to give the heaviest crop. Four sowings were made, a week 

 apart, and two plots were sown at each time, one with seed at the rate of 40 pounds 

 per acre, and the other at the rate of 80 pounds per acre. 



