Identifier: p10ontariosession48ontauoft (find matches)
Title: Ontario Sessional Papers, 1916, No.38-46
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: ONTARIO. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
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Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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ghtcontain a few weeds and an odd head of other varieties of grain. In connection with the potato competition the same thing resulted. I amtold that the plot that was awarded first, yielded about 300 bushels per acre,while from some of the others that were placed lower over 400 bushels weredug. If you take an acre of potatoes and dig so many feet in one row you can-not always judge what is going to be produced by the whole plot, though you maythink you are selecting some ofthe best. Several places in the field should be takenin order to arrive at what would probably be the product of the whole field.There should be some system devised because the way the plots were judgedin our competition has caused some dissatisfaction. J. LocKiE Wilson: Criticism of this kind is the only way that we canarrive at or as near perfection as possible, and I am glad Mr. Evans has broughtthis matter up. In the score card for grain used by judges twenty-five pointsare allowed for yield and quality of crop.
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2 A.S. i; 18 THE KEroirr of No. 42 As regards potatoes, a judge going into a field may take the poorest partof it. It may be wrong, but that may be his policy. Mr. Evans suggestionis a good one and I will recommend to the judges that, if their plan is to selectthe poorest part in each mans field, they had better select two spots, the weakestand the strongest. The following is the scale supplied to judges of potatoesat the present time in order to get the product of one square yard. Whererows are 24 inches apart, dig up 18 feet of a row; where they are wider, digshorter lengths: Scale for Judging Potatoes in the Standing Field Crop Competitions. Width between Length of row in rows in inches. feet to be dug. 24 18 27 1«J 30 lo 33 : 13* 36 12 39 lU 42 m 45 :. ^i 48 y This will give 4 square yards, and this divided by 4 will give a goodaverage for one square yard, / W. J. Connelly: Last year the Cobden Society took up Field Crop Com-petitions in wheat, peas and oats and we charged a fee

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