DIVISION OF FORAGE PLANTS 



625 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTAL STATION, CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. 



REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT— J. A. CLARK, B.S.A. 



INDIAN CORN. 



The land where the test plots were sown was very weedy and the season such that 

 it was almost impossible to destroy the couch grass. The season was, on the whole, 

 very unfavourable for Indian corn. 



Seven varieties were sown in drills on drained, as well as on undrained land. 

 Two varieties were also tried in hills. The latter yielded much heavier, as will be 

 seen from the table below, thain the same varieties sown in drills. This is accounted 

 for by the land being much warmer and cleaner in the case of the hills. 



The corn in drills was sown with the grain drill, in rows 36 inches apart, on the 

 3rd of June, and cut green October 11. It was cured as corn stover and fed to stock. 



Indian Corn for Ensilage. — Test of Varieties. 



No. 



Angel of Midnight 

 Canadian Yellow. . 

 Compton's Early. . , 

 Early Mastodon. . . 



Longfellow 



Learning Selected.. 

 Superior Fodder . . . 



Average. 



Name. 



Weight per 



acre in rows, 



drained. 



Tons. Lb. 



7 

 9 

 9 

 8 



10 

 8 



11 



1,887 

 1,403 

 1,969 

 1,084 

 1,609 

 1,649 

 1,080 



1,169 



Weight per 



acre in rows, 



undrained. 



Tons. 



8 

 8 

 9 

 6 

 9 

 9 

 8 



Lb. 



1,084 

 1,197 

 1,347 



1,124 



1,799 



272 



801 



1,375 



Weight per 



acre in 



hills. 



Tons. 



Lb. 



16 

 13 



216 



ijoos' 



14 



1,667 



FIELD ROOTS. 



TURNIPS 



Fourteen varieties of swede turnips were sown on May 31, and pulled November 

 14, 1912. The soil was a sandy loam, fairly light in character. Twenty tons of 

 manure was worked into the land, and the turnips sown in drills 30 inches apart, 

 and the young plants thinned to about fourteen inches in the rows. The yields were 

 computed from %oo acre plots. 



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