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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



1-2 EDWARD VII., ft. 1902 

 Indian Corn Sown at Different Distances Apart. 



Name of Variety. 



Longfellow. 



Selected Learning 



Champion White Pearl 



Condition 

 when Cut. 



Early milk 



Weight per 



Acre, green, in 



Rows. 



Tons. lbs. 



16 

 16 

 16 

 17 

 19 

 15 

 15 

 15 

 17 

 15 

 15 

 16 



1,616 



1,377 



1,943 



603 



527 



1,538 



548 



548 



953 



407 



548 



1,660 



FIELD EOOTS. 



All field roots, with the exception of carrots, have given large returns 

 unexplained reason carrots were generally quite small. 



for some 



EXPERIMENTS WITH TURNIPS. 



Twenty-nine varieties of turnips were sown, but one of them, ' Webb's New Re- 

 nown,' rotted in the ground and returns could not be obtained. With this exception 

 the quality of the roots was excellent. 



The soil chosen for these experiments was a sandy loam, which had been manured 

 two years ago, and was summer-fallowed last year. 



Two sowings were made of each variety, in every instance the early sown plots 

 yielded considerably more than those later sown. 



The first plots were sown on May 16, the second on May 30, and the roots from 

 both were pulled on October 12. The estimate of yield has been made from the pro- 

 duct of two rows each GG feet long. 



