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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



7 GEORGE V, A. 1917 



The following table shows the relative earliness of these varieties .together with 

 the yield from a row 30 feet long of each, they being named in the table in the order 

 of their production. 



Date. 



ready 



for 



use. 



July 



26 

 26 

 26 

 24 

 26 

 24 

 28 

 24 

 26 

 28 

 24 

 28 

 24 



Variety. 



Yellow Globe 



White Globe 



Red Globe 



Early Red Flat 



Giant Red Wethersfield... 



Extra Early Red 



Yellow Globe Dan vers. . . , 



White Queen 



Johnson Dark Red Beautj- 



Red Wethersfield 



Early White Barletta 



Australian Brown 



Very White Pearl 



Yield. 



Three varieties of onions, Extra Early Eed, Large Eed Wethersfield and Yellow 

 Globe Danvers were used in the following three tests: — 



1. Grown from seed sown in the open and thinned to one, two and three inches 

 apart. 



2. Grown from young plants started in the hotbed and transplanted to open 

 ground. 



3. Onion sets grown from seed. 



The following table gives the yield from a row 33 J feet in length: — 



L.\COMUS. 



