128 



E XPERIMENTAL FARMS 



2 GEORGE V., A. 1912 

 Indian Head, Sask.., Seed versus Ottawa, Ont. Seed in 1910. 



01 



-3 



'A 



1 



2 

 3 

 4 



5 



o 



7 



8 



9 



10 



11 



Nane of Variety. 



Empire State. . . . 

 Ashleaf Kidney. . . 

 Dalmeny Beauty. 



Late Puritan 



Gold Coin. 



Reeve's Rose 

 Rochester Rose. . 

 Irish Cobbler 

 Money Maker. . . . 

 Carman No. 1 . . . . 

 Morgan Seedling. 



Averacre . . 



Indian Head 

 Seed. 



Yield per Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



448 

 443 

 402 

 402 

 399 

 374 

 3ii3 

 332 

 3111 

 289 

 2,9 



308 



48 

 18 

 30 

 30 

 18 



IS 

 24 



30 



Ottawa Seed. 

 Yield per Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



107 

 41 



100 

 39 



11!) 



118 



130 



127 



70 



94 



40 



4S 

 43 

 3G 

 30 

 54 

 48 

 24 

 30 

 24 

 30 



96 



42 



Difference 



in favour 



Indian Head 



Seed. 



Bush. Lbs. 



341 

 401 

 242 

 303 

 279 

 2.3.J 

 220 

 204 

 248 

 194 

 235 



271 



30 



24 

 12 

 36 

 30 

 30 

 42 

 12 



48 



TOMATOES — SELECTION TO DEVELOP SUPERIOR EARLY STRAINS. 



Wherever possible, the farmer and market gardener should have his own tomato 

 peed, as lie should know better than anyone else what kind of tomato he should grow. 

 Experiments are being carried on in the Horticultural Division partly for the purpose 

 of studying the relative values of different methods of selection, and partly to demon- 

 strate, if possible, the advantage of home-grown seed when selected in the best way. 



In the year 1901, seed was saved of the earliest ripe fruit of the Sparks' Earliana 

 tomato grown at the Central Experimental Farm. Selection from the earliest single 

 tomato each year of all the tomatoes of this variety grown each year was continued 

 each year until 1904, when several selections were made from the plants of that year. 

 One selection was a single tomato from the plant giving the largest crop of early and 

 most uniform fruit in 1904; another selection from a single tomato from the plant 

 giving the largest crop of early fruit without regard to uniformity ; another selection 

 from a single tomato from the plant giving the largest crop of uniform fruit without 

 regard to earliness, and a fourth selection from the first good tomato ripened in these 

 or other plots, regardless of the individual plant from which it came. These selections 

 bave been made each year since, the seed being taken from the first good tomato ripened 

 on the individual plant in each of the first three selections which was nearest like the 

 kind of crop sought for by that selection. The fourth selection was made each year 

 from the plant, wherever it might be, which gave the first ripe fruit. 



The results presented in the following table show, that the results from all of the 

 selections are in the direction in which the selection was made. The largest crop of 

 early fruit selected from individual plants each year is much greater than where the 

 selection was made at random. The tomatoes ripened eight days earlier in the selec- 

 tions for earliness than in the selections for productiveness and uniformity without 

 regard to earliness. 



Improvement in uniformity has not yet been marked. 



It will be noticed that the yields were much larger in 1910, than in previous 

 years. This is very interesting. The plants were frozen to the ground on June 4, 

 but several strong new shoots came up from the base of the plant, producing appar- 

 ently the same effect as the pruning experiment- recorded in the annual reports for 

 1904, 1905, and 190G, when plants which won' pinched back in order to make laterals 

 develop gave larger crops than those not so treated. 



