REPORT OF MR. S. A. BEDFORD. 



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POTATOES. 



Ploughed in, in rows three feet apart, one foot apart in the row; weeds kept 

 down during the growing season with a one-horse cultivator. All were planted 

 26th May, and the last were taken up 5th October. 



Variety. 



Daisy 



Rural Blush 



Rose Valley 



Genessee Seedling 



Everett 



The Freeman ... , 



Sharjje's Seedling 



Dakota Red 



Polaris 



Bruce's White Beauty . 



Harbinger 



Burpee's Extra Early . 

 New Variety No. 1 . . . . 



Empire Bell 



Holborn Abundance. . 



State of Maine 



Pearce's Prize Winner. 

 Pearce's Extra Early . . 

 Cream of the Valley. . . 



White Unknown 



Lizzie's Pride 



Algoma 



American Giant 



I.X.L 



Toronto Queen . . 



Northern Spy 



Early Puritan 



Green Mountain 



Crown Jewel 



Lee's Favourite 



Early Rose 



Thorburn's Late Rose . 



Early Sunrise . . 



Vanguard 



Early Ohio 



Delaware 



Empire State 



Beauty of Hebron 



Steele's Earliest of All. 



Rural Blush 



Thorburn's Paragon . . . 



Clarke's No. 1 



Chicago Market 



Snowdrop 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



Bush. 



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 170 

 168 

 165 

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 137 

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 110 

 106 

 100 

 95 



Earliness. 



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Size. 



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SWINE FEEDING EXPERIMENTS. 



Two series of experiments in swine feeding were undertaken in the winter of 

 1891-2, with the anticipation that supplementary tests would be made during the fol- 

 lowing summer. For this reason the results were not published in the last report. 

 It was afterwards found impracticable to make the summer tests for want of suit- 

 able accommodations. 



The building in which the swine were kept during the winter was very open 

 and cold, the thermometer often going below zero, they were thus fed at a greai 

 disadvantage, but as the conditions were such as obtain on many farms in this 

 country during winter, the results of these experiments may be useful as showing 

 what can be done under very unfavourable circumstances. 



