REPORT OF MR. S. A. BEDFORD 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Carrots — Test of Varieties. 



417 



Name of Variety. 



Giant White Yosges 



Half Long White 



Ontario Champion 



White Belgian 



New White Intermediate . . . 



Yellow Intermediate 



Scarlet Intermediate 



Long Yellow Stump Rooted 

 Iverson's Champion . . ...... 



Mamm. White Intermediate 



Scarlet Nantes 



Long Orange or Surrey 



Long Scarlet Altringham.. . _ 



Carter's Orange Giant 



Green Top White Orthe 



Half Long Chantenay 



Guerande or Ox-heart 



Early Gem 



White Yosges Large Short. . 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



1st Plot. 



Tons. Lbs. 



21 



20 



20 



19 



19 



17 



16 



14 



14 



11 



10 



9 



8 



7 



6 



6 



5 



4 



240 



480 



480 



1,600 



1,600 



1,640 



1,000 



1,920 



1,920 



880 



1,560 



40 



1,600 



1,400 



760 



320 



1,880 



1,240 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



1st Plot. 



Bush. Lbs. 



70 1 

 674 

 674 

 660 

 660 

 594 

 550 

 498 

 498 

 381 

 359 

 300 

 293 

 256 

 212 

 205 

 198 

 154 



40 

 40 



40 

 40 

 20 

 20 

 40 

 20 

 40 

 40 

 20 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



2nd Plot. 



Tons. Lbs. 



12 



15 



13 



13 



12 



11 



8 



14 



14 



17 



7 



8 



7 



14 

 16 

 13 

 16 

 13 

 14 



1,080 



800 



840 



1,720 



640 



880 



720 



600 



600 



1,200 



960 



720 



80 



1,920 



1,880 



1,720 



1,000 



840 



1,480 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



2nd Plot. 



Bush. Lbs. 



418 

 513 

 447 

 462 

 410 

 381 

 278 

 476 

 476 

 586 

 249 

 278 

 234 

 498 

 564 

 462 

 550 

 447 

 491 



20 

 20 



40 

 20 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 20 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 40 



20 

 20 



EXPERIMENTS WITH SUGAR BEETS. 



Seven varieties of Sugar Beets were tested. The soil was a sandy loam, manured 

 in 1899, and summer-fallowed last year. The first plots were sown on May 16, and the 

 second on May 30, and all were pulled on September 24. The yield per acre has been 

 calculated from two rows each 66 feet long. 



Sugar Beets — Test of Varieties. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH POTATOES. 



The season has been an exceptionally favourable one for potatoes. The abundant 

 rainfall in late summer and the open fall encouraged rank growth of both vine and 

 tuber. 



The quality of the product was also above the average, many of the varieties be- 

 ing so dry that it was found difficult to boil them. 



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