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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 March 2009
The results of a preliminary investigation on this subject, in which single plots were used, which were published in 1921, tended to show that the following inferences, in respect to the relation of size and type of tuber-set to crop, might be drawn.
1. The size of the crop varied directly with the weight of the set up to a certain point, viz. 2 ozs., the crop then sinking slightly to a more or less constant level, whilst the weight of the set increased.
page 182 note 1 Salaman, R. N., Journ. of the Ministry of Agric. Vol. xxviii, 04 1921.Google Scholar
page 182 note 2 This is a wart immune variety raised by the author in 1911 which is very resistant to roll and mosaic and partially so to Phytophthora. It is not yet on the market.
page 188 note 1 Middleton, T. H., Guide to Experiments conducted at Burgoyne's Farm, etc., Camb. Univ. Dept. of Agriculture, 1907.Google Scholar
page 190 note 1 Middleton, T. H.Guide to Experiments conducted at Burgoyne's Farm, etc., Camb. Univ. Dept. of Agriculture, 1907.Google Scholar
page 192 note 1 Middleton, T. H., “Potato Experiments at Burgoyne's Farm, Impington, Camba.,” The Potato Year Book, 1907.Google Scholar
page 194 note 1 H, 15 sets planted.
page 194 note 2 I, 20 sets planted.
page 194 note 3 J, 65 sets planted.
page 194 note 4 A, 50 sets planted.
page 194 note 5 F, 10 sets planted.
page 194 note 6 K, 40 sets planted.
