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light in character, which received a coating of from 18 to 20 tons of manure per acre 

 in 1888, and a coating of unleached ashes, about 150 bushels to the acre late, in 18S9. 



Lord Derby Swede (Carter) 



Purple Top Swede (Rennie) 



Skirving's Improved Purple Top Swede (Steele). 



Selected Champion Purple Top Swede 



Highland Prize Purple Top Swede (Steele) 



Elephant Swede (Carter) 



Marquis of Lome Purple Top Swede (Bruce) . . . 



Queen of the Swedes (Carter) 



Purple Top Swede (Steele). 



Skirving's Swede (Carter) 



Skirving's King of Swedes (Steele) 



Sutton's Champion (Rennie) 



Hartley's Bronze (Pearce) . . 



Bangholm (Carter) 



Clyde Swede (Evans) 



White Swede (Steele) 



Pearce 's Invincible (Pearce) 



In a second trial with 22 varieties on a poorer soil, withou-t manure, later sown, 

 the following results were had. The jueld per acre was calculated from the same 

 sized plots. The seed was sown on the 2nd June and the roots pulled 24th October : — 



Improved Purple Top Mammoth (Simmers). . . . 



Hartley's Bronze (Pearce) 



Laidlaw's Swede (Pearce) 



Skirving's Swede (Carter) 



Bangholm Purple Top Swede (Rennie) 



Highland Prize Purple Top Swede (Steele) 



Hazard's Swede (Evans) 



Purple Top Swede (Rennie) 



East Lothian Purple Top Swede (Bruce) 



Highland Prize Purple Top Swede (Simmers) . . 



Selected Champion Purple Top Swede 



Lord Derby Swede (Carter) 



White Swede (Steele) 



Skirving's Imjiroved Purple Top Swede (Steele 



Royal Norfolk Purple Top Swede (Bruce) 



Purple Top Swede (Bruce) 



Sutton's Champion (Rennie) 



Purple Top Yellow Aberdeen (Pearce) 



Pearce "s Invincible (Pearce) 



Sutton's Champion Swede (Bruce) 



Clyde Swede (Evans) 



Skirving's King of Swedes (Steele) 



In this second series of 22 sorts it will be seen that the relative positions of the 

 varieties, as to yield, are somewhat changed. The 13lh in the first series becomes 

 second in this, the 10th fourth, the 5th becomes sixth, the 2nd eighth, the 4th stands 

 eleventh, and the 1st twelfth, with the 16th almost equal. 



