DIVISION OF FORAGE PLANTS 



925 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Carrots. — Test of Varieties. 



No. 



1 



2 

 3 

 4 

 5 

 6 

 7 

 8 

 9 

 10 



Name of Variety 



Improved Short White 



Ontario Champion . , 



Long Red Surrey . . . 



Coo)ier's Yellow Intermediate . 



Long White Belgian 



Mammoth White Intermediate. 



Half Long Chantenay 



Long Orange 



Long Red Surrey 



Giant White Vosges 



Average . 



Sugar Beets. — Test of Varieties. 



No. 



Name of Variety. 



1 Improved Vilmorin A. 



2 Improved Vilmorin B. 



3 Klein Wanzleben . 



Average . 



Yield per Acre. 



Tons. 



16 



12 

 12 



13 



Lb. 



1,060 



1,000 



340 



1,407 



Yield per Acre. 



Bush. 



551 

 416 

 405 



457 



Lb. 



40 

 40 



47 



SEEDING TO GRASSES AND CLOVERS. 



An experiment has been under way for three years on methods of seeding to 

 grasses and clovers. In each case the quantities of seed sown per acre are the same, 

 viz., 10 pounds Rye grass seed, 3 pounds Alfalfa, and 3 pounds Red Clover. The differ- 

 ence in the various methods was the kind of crop preceding the sowing of the grass 

 seed, and the kind of crop the grass seed was sown with as a nurse crop, if any was 

 used. The first table shows the yields from seeding in 1911 on land that had been 

 cropped to peas in 1910, and the hay in 1912 and 1913. The second table gives a 

 duplicate of these experiments begun in 1911 with the seeding down in 1912 and the 

 first hay crop in 1913. It also shows the various treatment of the land before 

 seeding : — 



1911. 



Seeded with wheat 



alone 



with wheat. 



alone 



with wheat. 



alone 



with oats. . . 



alone, 



with wheat. 



alone 



with wheat. 



Tons Lb. 



200 

 1,080 



160 

 1,040 



400 



680 

 .1,400 

 1,080 

 1,920 

 1,800 

 1,640 



1913. 



Tons Lb. 



2 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 1 



1,320 

 440 



1,320 

 440 

 840 

 640 

 480 



1,7G0 



ploughed up 

 1 l','535 



16—60 



ROSTHERN. 



