REPORT OF AIR. W. B. FAIRFIELD 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Potatoes (irrigated) — Test of Varieties. 



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Variety. 



Vick's Extra Early 



Gold Coin 



Reeves' Rose 



Carman No. 1 



Morgan Seedling . 

 American Wonder . 

 Rochester Rose . . 



Irish Cobbler 



Drepr's Standard . . 



Empire State 



Ashleaf Kidney 



Money Maker 

 Dalmeny Beauty. . 



Everett 



Late Puritan 



Total Yield 

 per Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



5S3 

 578 

 563 

 554 

 552 

 528 

 526 

 521 

 501 

 479 

 455 

 446 

 442 

 436 

 435 



36 

 12 

 24 

 12 



5t 

 21 

 36 

 36 

 24 

 36 

 12 

 42 

 36 



Yield 



per Acre 



Marketable. 



Bush. Lbs. 



52S 

 545 

 545 

 528 

 509 

 492 

 486 

 508 

 462 

 457 

 433 

 433 

 374 

 385 

 407 



36 

 36 



is 



48 

 12 

 12 



36 

 24 

 24 



Yield 



per Acre 



Unmarketable 



Bush. Lbs. 



55 

 33 

 17 

 26 

 42 

 35 

 40 

 13 

 39 

 22 

 22 

 13 

 68 

 51 

 28 



36 

 24 

 54 

 12 

 42 

 12 

 36 



12 

 12 

 42 

 36 



Form and Colour. 



Flat, white. 

 Round, white. 

 Long, pink. 

 Flat, white. 

 Long, pink. 



ii white. 



H pink. 

 Flat, white. 

 Oval, ii 

 Long, ii 

 Oval, ii 

 Round, ii 

 Oval, ii 

 Long, pink. 



OTHER PLANTINGS OF POTATOES — (IRRIGATED). 



The preparation of the land was the same as for the variety test. The sets were 

 put a foot to sixteen inches apart in the rows which were thirty inches apart. The 

 treatment in the way of irrigation, etc., was about the same as for the variety test. 

 The area of each plot planted varied from one-tenth to one one-hundredth of an acre. 



FORAGE CROPS. 



ALFALFA (IRRIGATED) . 



There is no crop that we know of that can be grown on irrigated land in Southern 

 Alberta with more profit than can alfalfa. If cut promptly, as soon as the very first 

 blooms appear, three cuttings can be obtained in each season. After a field is once 

 seeded down, it continues to produce year after year with no deterioration. In fact, 

 the crop improves each year for about three seasons. Besides producing large returns 

 annually as long as desired, it has the happy faculty of improving the soil by adding 

 nitrogen and humus so that any time the field is ploughed it is in excellent condition 

 for any crop that may be planted upon it. It has a most important place in a locality 

 where sugar beets are grown, for there is no treatment that prepares the land in such 

 a way as to increase the tonnage of beets as will the growing of this forage crop for a 



