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of the four tests conducted in the two years was obtained frorn the 

 thinning- which took place when the plants were two inches in height^ 

 the yield being fully one ton per acre more than for any of the other 

 thinning's. > 



Soaking Sugar Beet Seed Before Planting. An experiment has 

 been conducted for two years in succession by soaking sugar beet 

 seed for twelve, twenty-four and thirty-six hours, and then sowing 

 this seed as well as unsoaked seed in order to ascertain 

 the comparative results of the different treatments. The ex- 

 periment was conducted in duplicate each year. In each of 

 the two years, the unsoaked seed gave the lowest yield of roots per 

 acre. The results show us the greatest yield of roots per acre was 

 obtained from the seed which was soaked for twelve hours in 1903, and 

 from that which was soaked for twenty-four hours in 1904. 



Field Carrots. 

 In 1904, twenty-five varieties, and for each of the past five years, 

 twenty varieties of field carrots have been grown in our experimental 

 grounds. The carrot seed was sown on the level with a root drill in 

 rows three and one-third links (26 2-5 inches) apart, and, when the 

 plants were still quite small, they were thinned to an average distance 

 of four inches apart in the rows. Three rows, each four rods in length, 

 were used for each variety, thus making the plots exactly one one- 

 hundredth of an acre in size. The average results for five years in 

 weight per root, yield of tops per acre, and yield of roots per acre, are 

 as follows : 



Average results for five years. 



Varieties. 



1. Mastadon White Intermediate 



2. Mammoth Intermediate Smooth White . 



3. Steele's Improved Short White 



4. Iverson's Champion White Intermediate 



5. Sutton's Matchless White 



6. Carter's Hundred Ton 



7. Simmer's Short White Vosges 



8. Large White Belgian 



9. Long Yellow Stump Rooted 



10. Large White Vosges 



11. Pearce's Improved Half Long White 



12. Daniel's Giant Yellow Intermediate 



13. Sutton's Yellow Intermediate 



14. Carter's Gate Post Orange Long 



15. Rubicon Half Long Red 



16 . Victoria Long Red 



1 7 . Guerande 



18. Chantenay Short Red 



19. Danver's Orange 



20. Half Long Stump Rooted 



Yield of roots 

 per acre. 



Tons. 



31.16 



31.10 



30.08 



29.98 



29.44 



29.17 



28.03 



27.75 



26. 57 



26.50 



25.90 



25. 05 



25. 02 



24.95 



24.83 



24.04 



23.55 



23.48 



21.73 



18.65 



There are several varieties of intermediate white carrots, which 

 are represented by different names and are obtained from different 

 sources, which are quite similar in character of growth and in appear- 



