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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



7 GEORGE V, A. 1917 



PLANT BKEEDING. 



This consists in selection only. In vegetables, work is done -with beans, beets, 

 cabbage, corn, cucumber, lettuce, muskmelon, onion, parsnip, peas, pepper, potatoes, 

 radishes, squash, tomatoes, turnips, watermelon; in fruit, with apples, plums, cherries, 

 currants, gooseberries, raspberries, strawberries. 



That some advance is made can be seen by the results obtained on rows 30 feet 

 long with garden beans in 1915 : — 



The average increase of 6 pounds 13 ounces for each variety per row of 30 feet 

 corresponds to an increase of about 106 bushels per acre or a little more than 50 per 

 cent of what the total crop should be to be a paying one, under average circum- 

 stances. 



In corn, a Cap Kouge selection of Early Malcolm was the highest yielder amongst 

 thirty varieties and strains tried in 1915, and it is from a selection of 1913 which 

 was the heaviest yielder that year. It seems that blood tells for plant as well as for 

 animal life. 



In peas, both the heaviest yielder and the earliest ready for market were Cap 

 Rouge selections. 



Quicker results might sometimes be obtained, for yield and earliness, if any 

 plant was iised. But what is selected must be healthy and true to type, which means 

 that not a few are rejected. 



SEED GROWING. 



Seed of a great number of varieties of vegetables and flowering plants has been 

 successfully grown at this Station. Amongst the former may be mentioned beans, 

 beets, cabbage, carrot, corn, cucumber, egg plant, lettuce, muskmelon, onion, parsnip, 

 peas, pepper, pumpkin, radish, spinach, squash, tomatoes, turnip, watermelon ; and 

 amongst the latter can be named: acroclinium, alonsoa, alyssum, antirrhinum, aster, 

 balsam, bellis perennis, brachycome, calendula, corn flower, clarkia, coreopsis, cosmos, 

 delphinium, dianthus, dimorphotheca, eschscholtzia, gaillardia, helichrysum, iberis, 

 kochia, sweet peas, lavatera, linum, lobelia, lupinus, lychnis, malope, matthiola, 

 mimulus, nemesia, nicotiana, poppy, petunia, phlox, portulaca, mignonette, salpi- 

 glossis, salvia, scabiosa, French marigold, nasturtiums, verbena, pansy, zinnia. 



Cap Rouge. 



