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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



5 GEORGE v.. A. 1915 



Warm weather arrived on June 15, but its duration was short, and the remainder 

 of June was rather cold so that the i^lantation made slow growth during this time. 

 For five consecutive days the temperature ranged between 48° and 60° F., and, as a 

 result, grow^th received such a set-back from its beginning that only a small part of 

 the plantation regained the ground lost, and harvest was from fifteen days to three 

 weeks later than in a normal year. 



By July 1 the plantation had been gone over twice with the horse weeder and 

 once by hand. The plantation of " binders " was in good shape, but that of the "filler" 

 varieties was very weedy and it took a great deal of labour to clean it. 



At the beginning of July, the follov\^ing notes were taken on the condition of the 

 plantation : The Comstock is tlie most advanced in growth, followed quite closely by 

 the Havana Seed Leaf. The Yamaska is a little later, and the Big Ohio x Sumatra 

 maintains its special character of being slow to commence, but afterwards becoming 

 the most rapidly developing variety of all. The Cuban appears earlier than the other 

 "filler" varieties. The St. Felix especially is very slow at commencement; however, it 

 was generally true this year that the Brazil varieties seemed to be paralyzed at the 

 beginning of their growth. An arpent of St. Felix on which 648 pounds of chemical 

 fertilizer had been applied, but no barnyard manure, has a very ix>or appearance, 

 while another arpent of the sam.e variety which had been manured seems to promise 

 better. 



About this time, July 2, conditions became very favourable for growth. Warm 

 weather, followed by warm and frequent showers, gave the plantation a vigorous 

 growth which it maintained up to harvest. 



During August, the choice of seed plants was the main occupation. After a long 

 and careful selection, 2,000 plants were reserved. Unfortunately, the frost of Sep- 

 tember 8 almost completely destroyed the results of this work, for very few seed pods 

 escaped and the small amount of seed harvested had to be examined very critically 

 before being used. The 2,000 plants reseiTed for seed were as follows: — 



800 Comstock 

 40<T Yamaska 

 400 Big Ohio X Sumatra 



200 Havana Seed Leaf 

 100 Cuban 



50 St. Felix 



50 Las Almas. 



The various cultural operations performed during the season are tabulated 



below : — 



* 



Cultural Operatioxs Performed, 



Variety. 



Havana . . ....... 



Comstock ..... .j^. . , 



Yamaska . . 



Big Ohio X Sumatra. 



St. Telix 



I^a.s Almas 



Planted. 



Area. 



June 3 and 5. 



„ 4 



M 11 and 1.3 



II fi and 7 

 May.-}') 



., 28 



., 31 



Arpent.s 

 1 



2 



2 



2 



2 



2 



2 



Weeding. 



3, with horse- 

 weed er. 



4, by hand 



Topping. 



5, with horse- 

 weed er. 



6, by hand . . . 



July 29 



M 29 



u 30 



M 81 and 

 Augl. 

 Aug. 4 



>. 6.. . 



.. 6 



Suckering. 



Harvested. 



An?. 13 to 2G, Sept. 4. 



Sept. 4 

 Aug. U to 26, 



Sept. 4. 

 Aug. IG to 30, 



Sept. 6. 



Aug. 18 



Sept. 1 and 9 



Aug. 20, 

 Sept. 2 and 11 



4. 

 6. 

 7. 

 9. 

 11. 



13. 



Farnham. 



