518 



EXPERIMENTAL FAiniS 



5 GEORGE v., A. 1915 

 Corn, 1911-13. — Best Yarieti^s.— Earl i/, Medium, Late. — Average 1911-13. 



Varieties. 



Number of 



days 



from sovv-ing 



till ready 



for use, 



' 1911-13. 



Average 



yield 



marketable 



ears from 



12 hills, 



1911-13. 



Average 

 length of 



ears, 

 ' 1913. 



Height 



Of 



stalks, 



1913. 



Early — 



Malakoff 



Peep-o-Day 



Early Iowa 



Medium — 



Carpenter's Goldea Sweet 

 Seymour's Sweet Orange. 



Early Hiawatha 



Early Metropolitan 



Pocahontas 



Golden Nugget 



Early Cory ' 



Early Fordhook 



Crosby's Early 



Premo 



The Chase 



(Late— 



Golden Rod 



Golden Gentleman 



Ideal Early 



Howling Mob 



Early Cosmopolitan 



Penny's Hybrid 



Stabler's Early 



Early Evergreen 



80 

 81 

 80 



90 

 91 

 94 

 94 

 88 

 95 

 85 

 88 

 93 

 89 

 95 



100 



97 



98 



98 



99 



106 



103 



102 



50 

 46 

 40 



57 

 56 

 54 

 54 

 43 

 43 

 41 

 41 

 35 

 35 

 26 



54 

 45 

 44 

 43 

 36 

 36 

 36 

 31 



Inches. 



Ft. In. 



In the table for 1911-13, the number of early varieties is limited because a great 

 juanj' had not been grown for three seasons in succession. 



As to cultural methods followed, it might be said that the corn was sown on the 

 27th of May, in hills, as nearly as possible six grains to each, and twenty-four hills 

 to each variety. Cultivation was done in the usual manner, and when the plants 

 were about 8 inches high, the hills were thinned out to three plants. The yield in . 

 ears is taken from the twelve best hills, and the measurement of stalks and ears from 

 representative samples. 



CABBAGE. 



Which is the earliest variety of cabbage is a somewhat disputed question, some 

 •claiming- it is the Early Jersey Wakefield, others the Early Copenhagen Market or 

 Early Paris Market. The results obtained at the Experimental Farm are not 

 published this year because the figures obtained, although interesting, are not con- 

 elusive, even for one year's experiment. Drought and the root-maggot reduced the 

 yield considerably, as much as '80 per cent of the crop failed with two of the varieties, 

 .and none escaped with less than 23 per cent failure. Therefore, it is hard to judge 

 the merits of these varieties. Reliable early varieties though, are the Early Jersey 

 Wakefield, and a few of its strains, the best being the Large Wakefield, E.arly Charles- 

 ton Wakefield; the heads of the latter, thougli, are much smaller. Of the same type 



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