DIVISION OF FORAGE PLANTS 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



alike throughout the season with the exception of the check plot, which had to have 

 an extra hoeing. Plot No. 1 received no commercial fertilizer at all, hut had a dress- 

 ing of sixteen tons of barnyard manure. Plot No. 2, in addition to the manure, had 

 two hundred pounds of muriate of potash, one hundred and forty pounds of nitrate 

 of soda and four hundred pounds of superphosphate applied per acre. Plot No. 3 

 had one hundred and forty pounds of nitrate of soda and four hundred pounds of 

 superphosphate per acre. 



CARROTS. 



Of the five varieties sown, the Improved Short White has this season given the 

 best results as it did last year under a similar treatment on very different soil. 

 Following are the tabulated results : — 



a 

 3 



Variety. 



Improved Short White 



Mammoth Intermediate (White) 



White Belgian 



Ontario Champion 



Half Long Chantenay 



Average 



Yield per Acre. 

 1st Sowing. 



Tons. Lb. 



26 1,064 



25 952 



22 1,G72 



21 108 



13 1,984 



21 1,956 



Yield per Acre. 

 2nd Sowing. 



Tons. Lb. 



24 

 20 

 20 

 19 

 13 



1,236 

 1,448 



656 

 1,996 



532 



19 1,574 



Size of Plot . 



1/132 acre 

 1/132 ., 

 1/132 ., 

 1/132 „ 

 1/132 „ 



SUGAR BEETS. 



The same cultivation methods were used with the sugar beets as with the 

 mangels, with the following results: — 



Variety. 



Klein Wanzleben. . 

 2 ! French Very Rich. 

 3i Vilmorin's Improved 



'B". 



Vilmorin's Improved "A". 

 Average 



Yield per Acre. 

 1st Sowing. 



Tona. Lb. 



16 

 15 

 14 

 13 



1,264 



96 



512 



664 



14 1,634 



Yield per Acre. 

 2nd Sowing. 



Tons. Lb. 



16 

 14 



736 

 512 



14 1,624 



Size of Plot. 



1/132 acre 

 1/132 ,, 



