DIVISION OF HORTICULTURE 



861 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Precipitation for the past five growing seasons, April 1 to August 15. 



VEGETABLES. 



Potatoes. — Owing to the combined effects of late and early frosts and to the con- 

 tinued dry weather the yields of potatoes at this Station in 1915 were the lowest of any 

 year since the Station was established in 1909. 



Twenty varieties of potatoes were under test this season but the order of yield 

 was very different from what it had been for the previous five years. These were 

 planted May 6, frozen to the ground on June 15 when they were about six inches high, 

 and frozen again ou August 24, when the leaves were destroyed, and frozen to the 

 ground on September 11. This left a growing season of ten weeks as compared with 

 one of fifteen weeks in an average year. 



Early Ohio was second highest this year and Bovee was seventh. The only other 

 two seasons they were tried they were nearly the lowest. Following is the yield for 1915 

 and the average yield for five years of those varieties that have been under test during 

 that period. The yields by acre are estimated from the crop obtained from five rows 

 two and one half feet apart and 78 feet long, of each variety. 



Variety. 



Yield 



1915 per 



acre. 



Average 

 for 5 yrs. 

 per acre. 



Everett 



Early Ohio 



Reeves Rose 



Rochester Rose 



Vick Extra Early... 



Monej'maker 



Bovee 



Irish Cobbler 



Rawlings Kidney... 



Dreer Standard 



Empire State 



Late Puritan 



Dalraeny Beauty. . . 

 Vermont Gold Coin 



Bermuda Early 



Carman No. 1 



Wee MacGregor 



Canadian Standard. 

 Burbank Seedling... 

 Table Talk 



Pink 



a 



Pink and Whit« 



White 



Pink 



White 



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ii 



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Pink..!!!!!!!!!. 



White 



it 



Pink..!!!!!!!!!! 



White 



Bush. 



275 

 265 

 259 

 252 

 251 

 245 

 240 

 232 

 227 

 219 

 215 

 213 

 210 

 205 

 195 

 195 

 195 

 193 

 186 

 161 



Bush. 

 498 



435 

 491 

 428 

 488 



370 

 496 

 512 

 437 



438 

 426 



386 



EOSTHERN. 



