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EXPERIMEXTAL FARMS 



EXPEKIMEXTS WITH CARROTS. 



The experiments with carrots were conducted on land which was clay loam in a 

 good state of fertility. The land previously was in clover, the aftermath of which 

 was ploughed under in the fall of 1900. Stable manure at the rate of 20 one-horse cart 

 loads per acre was spread broadcast in the spring of 1901, after the ground had been 

 once worked with the disc harrow. The manure was ploughed under, and the land 

 harrowed once with the spring-tooth harrow. The disc harrow was again used, after 

 which the smoothing harrow went over the ground. Complete fertilizer at the rate of 

 200 pounds per acre was sown broadcast, and harrowed in with the smoothing harrow. 

 The land was then run into drills 21 inches apart. 



The rows were raked off bj- hand, and marks made along the top of the rows into 

 which the seed was sown and covered with the garden rake. Twenty varieties of car- 

 rots were grown, and the yield per acre was calculated from two rows, each 06 feet 

 long. The seed was sown May 27, and duplicate plots, were sown two weeks later, 

 June 10. The crop was harvested October 30, and the following particulars obtained : — 



