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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



The White Globe turnip although a large yielcler, is soft and a very poor keeper. 



Steele's Purple Top Swede is in our experience a desirable sort. 



Pearce's Canadian Giant and the Mammoth Long Red Mangels have given the largest 

 yields, and the plants make very strong growth. 



The short white varieties of carrots are the best for stock purposes. 



Among the red varieties Short "Valery and Early Gem are good market sorts. 



The land used for these experiments was a clay loam. The first plots were sown on 

 18th and 19th May. The second series on 1st and 2nd June. The yield of all roots 

 per acre has been calculated from the quantity obtained from three rows each, 66 feet 

 long and 1\ feet apart. 



Three varieties of Sugar Beets were also sown in plots of the same size. The second 

 sown plots proved to be considerably the best. 



Turnip Plots. 



Name of Variety. 



Southern White Globe. . . 



Davey's Swede , 



Purple Top Swede 



Champion Purple Top. . 



Westbury Improved 



Giant King 



East Lothian 



Marquis of Lome , 



Jumbo or Monarch 



Rennie's Prize Purple Top 



Carter's Elephant 



Skirving's Swede 



Bloomsdale Swede . . 



a 



Li 



o 



L, O 



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Bus. lbs. 



1045 . . 



799 20 



880 .. 



784 40 



843 20 



601 20 



784 40 



748 .. 



850 40 



528 .. 



601 20 



1195 20 



916 40 



The seed of Davey's Swede was grown at the Experimental Farm, Nappan. 

 obtained from Canadian seedsmen. 



The other varieties were 



