372 REPoRT OF THE Farm SUPERINTENDENT OF THE ~ 
The best record of winter wheats was made by Fulcaster, fol- 
lowed by New Light Amber. The spring wheats ranking bestwere 
Kubanka, Petali; Saskatchewan, from D. L. Wellman, and Well- 
man’s, from 8. D. Experimental’ Station, Pure Scotch Fife and 
Palestine in this order. Atlanti headed and ripened very unevenly. — 
By the middle of September there were many heads which had 
panicled since the harvest. In this respect thissampleresembled 
spring-sown winter wheat. eg 
POTATO EXPERIMENTS, 1890. 
The wet weather all through May made the planting late, and — a 
the main crop on B and F plats was not planted until May 30th 
and 31st. Subsequently some of the seed on B plats rotted, — 4 
and a very poor stand was left. The stand on the F plats was 
much better. a a 
The fertilizers were sown June second, under favorable circum- _ 
stances, and all were evenly applied. ; 
Planting and cultivation—In order to secure exactness in 
spacing, these plats were all planted by a line and the seed 
covered about two inches deep. 
Cultivators were run through the rows as often as needed to 
keep a layer of loose earth on the surface to prevent great losses 
of moisture. . 
The last hand work was done July 29th, when the rows were 
slightly hilled up, but the cultivators were narrowed up and 
run twice in a row later to prevent evaporation, as from the dry 
weather the soil was beginning to crack between rows. 
What had been an exceedingly wet season up to the middle of 
June, turned to a very dry one during the time from June 20th 
to the middle of August. It was during this time the crop of 
tubers were set and checked both in the number set and in their 
growth. 
Later, the fungous attack reduced the crop actually grown to a 
low percentage of merchantable tubers. an 
The proportion of affected tubers is so great, and not uniform __ 
for all plats,’that it would destroy the whole value of the experi- 
ments to disregard the tubers grown which succumbed to disease, _ 
so they are given as harvested along with “ merchantable” and 
“small.” 
