REPORT OF MR. 8. A. BEDFORD. 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Carrots — Test of Varieties. 



357 



Name of Variety. 



Green Top White Orthe 



Half Long Chantenay 



Giant White Vosges 



Early Gem 



Guerande or Ox-Heart 



Half Long ^Vhite. 



Improved Short White 



Carter's Orange Giant 



New White Intermediate 



Iverson's Champion 



Yellow Intermediate 



White Belgian 



Long Scarlet Altringham 



Mammoth White Intermediate. 



Ontario Champion 



Scarlet Intermediad;e 



Scarlet Nantes 



Long Orange or Surrey 



White Vosges Large Short . . . . . 



Yield per Acre 

 2nd Sowing. 



a 

 o 



5 

 5 

 5 

 5 

 5 

 5 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 3 



3 

 3 

 3 



2 

 2 



1,880 



1,000 



1,000 



1,000 



560 



560 



1,240 



1,240 



1,240 



360 



1,480 



1,040 



600 



600 



160 



160 



1,720 



1,720 



1,280 



Yield per Acre 

 2nd Sowing. 



198 

 183 

 183 

 183 

 176 

 176 

 154 

 154 

 154 

 139 

 124 

 117 

 110 

 110 

 102 

 102 

 95 

 95 

 88 



.a 

 1^ 



20 

 20 

 20 



20 

 40 

 20 



40 

 40 

 20 

 20 



EXPERIMENTS WITH SUGAR BEETS. 



Six varieties of sugar beets were tested. The soil was a clay loam. The first plots 

 were sown on May 19, the second on June 2, and all were pulled on October 4. The 

 yield per acre has been calculated from two rows, each 66 feet long. 



Sugar Beets — Test of Varieties. 



Name of Variety. 



Yield 

 per Acre. 

 1st Plot. 



Red Top Sugar 



Improved Iinperial . 

 Danish Red Top. ... 



Wanzleben , 



Danish Improved . . . 

 Vilmorin's Improved 



a 



o 

 H 



10 



10 



10 



9 



8 

 8 



.a 



592 

 328 

 64 

 744 

 632 

 368 



Yield 



per Acre. 



1st Plot. 



pa 



343 

 338 

 334 



312 



277 

 272 



12 



48 

 24 

 24 



12 



48 



Yield 

 per Acre. 

 2nd Plot. 



O .a 



H 1^ 



11 1,232 



13 136 



14 1,040 

 13 400 

 10 1,334 



8 632 



Yield 

 per Acre. 

 2nd Plot. 



CO 



3 



387 

 435 

 484 

 440 



356 



277 



hi 

 12 

 36 



24 

 12 



EXPERIMENTS WITH POTATOES. 



Although the yield of potatoes this year was slightly tinder the average of the 

 past four years, every variety germinated well, the growth was a remarkably uniform 

 one and the experiment as a comparative test of varieties was successful. 



The average yield of twenty-five of the most productive varieties covering a 

 period of four years, is also given. 



The previous crop was fodder corn. There was no injury from rot, and practi- 

 cally all were marketable. The yield per acre has been estimated in each case from 

 the product of one row 66 feet long. 



All the varieties were planted on May 22 in rich clay loam without manure and 

 were dug on September 20. 



