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EX PERI MEN TA L FA R MS. 



TURNIPS — TEST OF VARIETIES. 



Name of Variety. 



Simmer's Champion Purple Top 



Purple Top Swede 



Bloomsdale Swede 



Monarch or Oval 



Imperial Swede 



Skirving's Swede 



East Lothian 



Hartley's Bronze Top 



Carter's Elephant Swede 



Remiie's Prize Purple Top 



Snow White Globe. . 



Westbury Imperial Swede 



Elephant or Giant King 



Jumbo or Monarch 



Marquis of Lome 



Yield 

 per Acre. 

 1st Plot. 



Tons. Lbs. 



25 

 23 

 22 

 18 

 18 

 18 

 17 

 17 

 14 

 14 

 13 

 13 

 10 

 10 

 9 



142 



1,238 



915 



471 



217 



106 



509 



267 



653 



120 



1,104 



1,007 



1,393 



503 



1,844 



Yield 



per Acre. 



1st Plot. 



Bush. Lbs. 



835 

 787 

 748 

 607 

 603 

 601 

 575 

 571 

 477 

 468 

 451 

 450 

 356 

 350 

 330 



42 

 18 

 35 

 51 

 37 

 46 



9 



7 

 33 

 40 

 44 



7 

 33 



6 

 44 



Yield 

 per Acre. 

 2nd Plot. 



Tons. Lbs. 



10 

 10 



6 



11 

 11 



9 



6 

 5 

 14 

 9 

 5 

 4 

 6 



19 



19 



1,552 



1,369 



1,025 



973 



423 



1,134 



1,842 



1,422 



653 



669 



1,713 



1,486 



1,842 



Yiold 

 per Acre. 

 2nd Plot. 



Bush. Lbts. 



333 

 333 

 225 



389 

 383 

 316 

 240 

 285 

 230 

 190 

 477 

 311 

 195 

 158 

 230 



58 

 5S 

 32 

 29 

 45 

 13 

 23 

 34 

 42 

 22 

 33 



9 

 13 



6 

 42 



FIELD CROP OF TURNIPS. 



One acre only was sown as a field crop. The soil was a light sandy loam ; the pre- 

 vious crop was wheat. This land received an application of 200 lbs. per acre of Royal 

 Canadian Fertilizer, which was applied on top of drills. It was ploughed in the autumn 

 of 1893; gang-ploughed and harrowed in the spring of 1894. The drills were 2 feet 

 apart. Variety, Prize Purple Top Swede. Sown, June 12th; came up June 16th; 

 and was pulled Oct. 29th ; yield, 22 tons, 1,249 lbs. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH MANGELS. 



Eleven varieties of mangels were tested in adjoining plots, soil sandy loam. The 

 previous crop was oats. Two sowings were made in each case, in drills 1\ feet apart, 

 the first on April 27th, the second on May 11th, and the crops on both were pulled on 

 October 15th. The variety chosen for this test was Mammoth Long Red. The yields 

 in this case were also larger in every instance from the earlier sown plots. The returns 

 have been calculated from the weight of roots obtained from two rows, each 90 feet long. 



MANGELS TEST OF VARIETIES. 



