REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



made of each sort, the first on May 8, the second on May 22. They were also pulled 

 on two different dates. The first pulling was on October 14, the second on October 23. 

 The yield per acre has been calculated in each case from the weight of roots gathered 

 from one row 66 feet long. 



SUGAR BEETS — TEST OF VARIETIES. 







Name of Variety 



2 Royal Giant. 



3 Danish Improved 



4 Danish Red Top . . . 



5 Improved Imperial. . . 



YVanzleben 



7 Vilmorin's Improved 



Yield per 

 Acre from 

 1st Sowing. 



1st Pulling 

 Oct. 14. 



Tons. 



1 Red Top Sugar i I 34 



33 



33 

 3L 



28 

 25 

 22 



Lbs. 

 640 

 G60 

 330 



1,3(10 

 430 

 160 



1,210 



Yield per 



Acre from 



2nd Sowing. 



2nd Pulling 

 Oct. 28. 



Tons. Lbs. 

 26 470 



26 

 22 

 22 

 26 

 18 

 15 



140 



880 



880 



1,130 



1,950 



30 



The average crop from the 1st sowing, 1st pulling was. 

 The average crop from the 2nd sowing, 1st pulling was. 

 The average crop from the 1st sowing, 2nd pulling was. 

 The average crop from the 2nd sowing, 2nd pulling was. 



Tons. lbs. 

 29 1,541 

 24 1,359 

 27 1,251 

 22 1,069 



* Results of Early Sowing and Late Pulling. 



The figures given above point to the advantage of early sowing. The average yield 

 of sugar beets from all the varieties from the first sowing and first pulling has exceeded 

 that from the second sowing by 5 tons 182 pounds per acre, and in the case of the sec- 

 ond pulling made fourteen days later, precisely the same result is reached, the first 

 sowing exceeding the second by 5 tons 182 pounds per acre. 



In this case, however, the figures show no advantage from delay in pulling. On 

 the contrary the yield from the second pulling, both sowings have given at the rate of 

 2 tons 290 pounds per acre less in each case than was had from the first pulling. 



SELECT LIST OF VARIETIES OF SUGAR BEETS. 



In this list is given the average yield per acre obtained during the past four and 

 five years from the more productive varieties of sugar beets, grown at all the experi- 

 mental farms, with the length of time they have been under test. Only those sorts are 

 ineluded which have been three years or longer under trial. 



Names of Varieties. 



Danish Red Top 



Red Top Sugar .. . . 



Danish Improved 



Improved Imperial. . , 



Wanzleben 



Vilmorin's Improved 



Number of 



Years 

 under Tiial. 



Average 

 Yield per Acre 



at all the 

 Experimental 



Farms. 



172 

 1,091 

 792 

 653 

 118 



