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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



1-2 EDWARD VII., A. 1902 

 CORN AT DIFFERENT DISTANCES APART. 



Name of Variety. 



Selected Learning. 



Longfellow 



Champion White Pearl. 



It will be seen that in each of these trials, the corn planted 2S inches apart gave 

 the heaviest crop. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH TURNIPS. 



The soil of these plots was a clay loam in a good state of fertility. The previous 

 crop was clover, the aftermath of which was ploughed under in the fall of 1900. In 

 the spring this was worked up with the spade harrow, and 20 one-horse cart loads of 

 stable manure per acre was spread broadcast and ploughed under. This was tben gone 

 over with the springtooth and once with the disc harrow, and once with the smoothing 

 harrow. Two hundred pounds of complete fertilizer per acre was soavu broadcast and 

 harrowed in with the smoothing harrow. The land was then run up into drills 21 

 inches apart. The rows were raked off by hand, and marks made along the top of the 

 rows into which the seed was dropped and lightly covered. 



The first series of plots was sown May 27, and duplicate ones two weeks later, 

 June 10. The roots were all pulled October 30, and the> following yields per acre were 

 calculated from two rows, each 66 feet long. Twenty-nine varieties were included in 

 this test. The turnip plots were somewhat infested with the turnip aphis {Aphis 

 Irassicae) toward the latter part of the season. 



