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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



64 VICTORIA, A. I90t 



Garden Pease — Test of Varieties. 



Name of Variety. 



Eugenie 



900 to 1 



Juno 



Queen 



Grant's Favourite. 



Anticipation 



Forty-fold 



King of the Dwarfs 



Telegraph 



Pride..: 



Scheriezer's Giant. 



Sharp's Queen 



Shropshire Hero . . 

 New Victory . . . 



Scimitar 



Veitch's Perfection 

 Sander's Marrow . . 

 Early Britain 



EXPERIMENTS WITH BEANS. 



Twenty-seven varieties of beans were planted June 19, in rows 3 feet apart. 

 Each plot was one row 66 feet long, and two plots of each sort were sown. One plot 

 was pulled to obtain the weight of green marketable beans, and the other was left 

 to ripen. The seed was planted on level ground in drills made 14 inches deep, and 

 placed 2 inehes apart. 



The land was previously in A'^egetables, and having been manured for that crop, no 

 fertilizer was applied for the beans. The land was ploughed in the fall and worked 

 up the following spriiig with the disc and apring-tooth harrows, before seeding. 



The different varieties were all more or less affected with the bean anthracnose 

 or pod-spot, which greatly injured the crop. The varieties Keeney's Rustless Wax, 

 and Extra Early Red Valentine, were most free from this disease. 



