REPORT OF MR. J. A. CLARK 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Potatoes — Test of Varieties 





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Name of Variety. 



Burbanks' Serdling 

 American Wonder.. 



Everett 



Empire State 



Mclntyre 



Late Puritan 



Morgan Seedling 



Irish Cobbler ..... 

 Vick's Extra Early. 



Bliss Triumph 



Money Maker.. ... 



Reeves' Rose 



Ashleaf Kidney. . . . 

 Carman No. 1 



15 Gold Coin 



16 Rochester Rose. . 



17 Dreer's Standard. 



18 Dalmeny Beauty. 



19: Hard to Beat 



20 Factor 



Yield 

 per Acre 

 of Sound. 



Bush. Lbs. 



321 



310 

 301 

 302 

 302 

 294 

 292 

 267 

 243 

 239 

 218 

 215 

 215 

 193 

 18S 

 168 

 140 

 112 

 107 

 92 



30 

 12 



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 30 

 30 

 48 

 36 

 18 



6 

 48 

 21 

 3d 

 36 

 36 



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 18 

 48 

 12 

 48 

 24 



Form 



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Colour. 



Long white. 



Oval ,. 



Long <i 

 blue, 

 white. 



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Round .1 

 Long 11 

 Round pink, 

 white. 

 Long pink. 

 Round white 



Long pink. 

 Round white 

 Oval 11 

 Round 11 

 Long 11 



TIMOTHY. 



Nine acres of timothy were grown. The results were as follows : — 



ALFALFA. 



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Alfalfa seed was sown on four quarter-acre plots on May 21. A sandy loam soil 

 was broken during the summer of 1909 and worked during the late autumn. It was 

 given a dressing of barn-yard manure at the rate of ten tons per acre. The ground was 

 thoroughly worked in the spring and inoculated by distributing soil from a patch in 

 the orchard where alfalfa had been growing three years. Eight barrels of slaked lime 

 were spread on the acre and worked into the soil. 



Plot 1 was sown at the rate of 16 lbs. alfalfa per acre without nurse crop. Two 

 cuttings were made which were allowed to lie on the ground during the summer. This 

 plot was in fair condition in the autumn and seems, at this date (March 31), to have 

 wintered well. Plot No. 2 was sown with wheat at the rate of one bushel per acre as 

 nurse crop with the same quantity of alfalfa seed as No. 1. The wheat made a strong 

 growth, yielding at the rate of 8 bushels and 44 pounds per acre and choked out the 

 alfalfa very much. 



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