DIVISION OF HORTICULTURE 



921 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTS WITH KINDS OF SET. 



Variety experimented with: Gold Coin. 



Planted in rows 66 feet long, 30 inches apart, seed planted 12 inches apart in 

 rows. Planted !flay 1, harvested September 20. 



By the table it will be seen that the seed from potatoes having strong buds at 

 seed end only gave the best results in all cases but one, and that the seed, cut to two 

 eyes only, was the best yielder in both the experiments, and required the second 

 smallest amount of seed to be planted. 



HILLED AND LEVEL CULTIVATION. 



Variety experimented with: Gold Coin. 

 Area planted : one-twentieth acre. 



Planted in rows, 30 inches apart, sets planted 12 inches apart in the row. 

 This experiment shows that the better yield was obtained from the potatoes 

 which were hilled after the last cultivation than from the level cultivation. 



Date 

 Planted. 



Date 

 Harvested. 



Yield per acre 

 marketable. 



Yield per acre, 

 not marketable. 



Level cultivation 



Hilled after last cultivation. 



April 30. 

 " 30. 



Sept. 22... 

 " 22... 



Tons. 



11 

 12 



lb. 



460 

 1360 



Tons. 



1 

 1 



lb. 



980 

 560 



16-^6^i 



Agassiz. 



