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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



SM'EET CORX. 



Planted May 6, May 27, June 9. Twenty hills of each A^ariety, The corn was 

 planted at different dates to test the relative merits of the different dates of planting. 

 The early date gave the best results and the following notes are from that planting: 



Sweet Corn. 



Variety. 



Early Malcolm 



Fordhook Early 



Golden Bantam 



Early Iowa 



*Squaw Coi'n 



Henderson's Metropolitan. 



Extra Early Adams 



Carter's Improved Sweet . 

 Perkin's Early 



•Not the " Scjuaw " usually grown in the West under that name. 

 Early Malcolm produced a small number of cobs. 



SALSIFY. 



Seed of Long White salsify Avas sown in the open on April 19 in a row 30 feet 

 long. The yield was 7 pounds of poor quality roots. 



TOMATOES. 



Sown in hotbed April 3, transplanted May 22, planted out June 25. Ten varieties 

 were sown, and all but Florida Special produced small quantities of green fruit. 

 Alacrity and Kennie's Earliest ripened a small quantity. 



TURIs^IPS. 



Sown April 19, destroyed by high winds and sand. Ee-sown on May 6, and partly 

 destroyed by drifting sand. Re-sown on June 2 in 30-foot rows! 



— FERTILIZER TEST. 



Eight plots of one-fortieth acre each were used for a fertilizer test, four with field 

 peas and four with beans.- The fertilizers were: (1) potash, (2) phosphoric acid, (3) 

 a mixture of potash and phosphoric acid, and the fourth plot was used for a check 

 plot. 



Peas were planted on May 10 and the potash -phosphoric acid plot came nearest 

 matTirity. 



Planted on May 20. 



Lacombe. 



