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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH POTATOES. 



One hundred and ten varieties of potatoes have been under test during 1897, grown 

 side by side, in similar soil, for the purpose of gaining information, as to their relative 

 productiveness, and earliness of maturing. The soil in which they were planted, was a 

 sandy loam of fair quality, which received in the spring of 1894, an application of about 

 12 tons of barn-yard manure per acre. No fertilizer has been applied since. The 

 previous crop was pease. The land was ploughed in the autumn of 1896, about 8 inches 

 deep, and again in the spring of 1897, about 6 inches deep, and harrowed twice with the 

 smoothing harrow before planting. 



The potatoes for seed were cut into pieces of from two to three eyes in each, and 

 planted in rows 2^ feet apart, with the sets about a foot apart in the rows. They were 

 all planted on the 21st and 22nd of May and were dug from the 4th, to the 7th of 

 October. The yield per acre has been calculated from the weight of tubers obtained 

 from one row 132 feet long. 



POTATOES — TEST OP VARIETIES. 



Name of Variety. 



Total 



Yield per 



Acre. 



Holbom Abvmdanoe. . . . 



Seedling No. 230 



French Red 



From N. Bergeron 



Seedling No. 7 



Irish Daisy 



Chicago iVIarket 



Dreer's Standard 



Earliest of AIL 



Northern Spy 



From S. Sjabean 



Early Thorburn 



Rose No. 9 



Reeve's Rose 



Vanier 



Daisy 



Irish Cobbler 



Flemish Beauty Seedling 



London 



Everett 



Early Sunrise 



Reading Giant. 



Sharpe's Seedling 



Blue Cup 



Troy Seedling 



Delaware 



Charles Downing 



Late Puritan 



Wonder of the World . . . 



New V.iriety No. 1 



State of Maine 



Crown Jewel 



Early Six Weeka 



Seattle 



Clarke's Na 1 



Early Ohio 



Seedling No. 2, Edwards 

 Vick's Extra Early . . . 



White Beauty 



Lightning Expresa. . . . 



McKenxie 



Great Divide 



Green Mountain. . 



American Wonder. . . . 



Bush. Lbs. 



Yield 



per Acre of 



Sound. 



Bush. Lbs. 



400 

 400 

 382 

 386 

 380 

 369 

 333 

 346 

 331 

 346 

 336 

 325 

 334 

 308 

 333 

 32S 

 321 

 301 

 304 

 302 

 298 

 302 

 292 

 298 

 297 

 295 

 292 

 282 

 277 

 284 

 283 

 265 

 268 

 278 

 275 

 273 

 270 

 267 

 268 

 266 

 266 

 258 

 261 

 258 



24 

 24 

 48 



6 

 36 

 36 

 18 

 38 



6 

 30 

 36 

 36 

 24 



18 

 13 

 12 

 24 

 42 

 30 

 47 

 30 

 36 

 6 

 44 

 54 

 36 

 58 

 12 

 21 

 15 

 50 

 16 

 34 



29 

 19 

 18 

 24 

 12 

 12 

 .30 

 48 

 30 



Yield 



per Acre of 



Rotten. 



Bush. Lbs. 



9 

 3 



1 



3 



23 



15 



6 



15 



4 



28 



14 



11 



8 



11 



4 

 9 



14 

 12 



3 

 4 



12 



54 

 18 



6 

 18 



6 



24 



36 



24 

 24 

 36 



24 



18 



48 



42 



44 



24 



54 



18 

 6 



18 

 24 



12 



12 

 6 

 42 

 24 

 42 



Yield 



per Acre of 



Marketable. 



Bush. Lbs. 



356 

 380 

 317 

 349 

 343 

 341 

 284 

 324 

 257 

 306 

 319 

 258 



246 

 256 

 285 

 259 

 218 

 255 

 239 

 244 

 221 

 213 

 254 

 266 

 282 

 226 

 234 

 213 

 227 

 254 

 217 

 204 

 216 

 237 

 242 

 248 

 210 

 160 

 248 

 243 

 206 

 246 

 242 



24 

 36 

 54 

 48 

 12 



54 

 38 

 24 

 54 



30 



24 

 18 

 19 

 36 

 54 

 12 

 48 

 53 



6 

 24 



6 

 56 

 42 

 36 

 34 

 24 



9 

 39 

 26 

 28 

 58 

 36 

 41 

 19 



6 

 36 

 36 



6 

 48 

 24 



Yield per 

 Acre of Un- 

 marketable. 



Colour. 



Bush. Lbs. 



44 

 19 

 64 

 36 

 37 

 28 

 48 

 22 

 73 

 39 

 17 

 67 



61 

 77 

 42 

 61 

 82 

 49 

 62 

 53 

 81 

 79 

 44 

 30 

 13 

 66 

 48 

 63 

 57 

 28 

 48 

 63 

 61 

 37 

 30 

 22 

 57 

 107 

 17 

 23 

 51 

 15 

 16 



48 

 54 

 18 

 24 

 36 

 24 



42 



36 



36 



6 



36 



54 

 36 

 30 

 30 

 42 

 54 

 24 

 12 



48 

 12 



24 

 48 

 12 

 36 

 24 

 48 

 36 

 24 

 48 



12 

 48 

 36 

 6 

 42 

 24 

 30 



White. 



Red. 



Light pink. 



Bright pink. 



White. 



Pink. 



White. 



Pink and white. 



Bright pink. 



White. 



Pink and white. 



Pink. 



4< 



Red. 



Pink and white. 



White. 



Blight pink. 



Pink. 



Red and white. 

 Pink and wliite. 

 Blue and white. 

 White. 



Pink and white. 

 White. 



Pink and white. 

 Pink. 

 White. 

 Pink. 



White. 



Pink and white. 



White. 



Pink. 



White. 



