DIVISIOX OF HORTICULTLIRB \ 563 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENT WITH POTATOES. 



Twenty varieties of potatoes were planted in uniform test plots of one-hundredth 

 of an acre each. 



The land was of medium to heavy clay loam, ploughed from pasture the previoi!> 

 year. Manure was applied on surface, and ploughed under, the fall of 1932. 

 It was cutaway harrowed once in the spring of 1913, crossed ploughed with gang plough. 

 again cutaway harrowed twice, and smoothing harrowed once. Drills were run 28 

 inches apart and all seed was dropped by hand on June 6 at the rate of 25 bushels per 

 acre, the seeds being 12 inches apart in rows. Thej' were harrowed down and ploughed 

 up twice before they came up, were gone over twice with a hoe and cultivated four 

 times with a one-horse cultivator. Sprayed twice during the season with Bordeaux 

 ; '"--rture. All varieties made a strong growth. 



The following table gives the ( omparative results: — 



Nappan. 



