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HORSES. 



The horses on the Experimental Farm are enjoying perfect freedom from 

 disease. It is now over three years since they were brought to the province, and 

 since that time none have died and no serious ailment has occurred among them. 

 Their healthfulness is no doubt largely owing to the pure water found on the farm 

 and the care taken in feeding, &c. When in full work, each horse is fed two meals 

 per day of oats mixed with bran, and one meal (at night) of crushed grain, besides 

 all the wild meadow hay they can eat up clean. On Sunday one-half the usual 

 quantity of oats is fed. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH TURNIPS. 



Of the thirty-nine varieties of turnips tested during the past season the Mam- 

 moth Purple Top has given the largest yield and the best shaped turnip. Owing to 

 the unfavourable season many of the varieties were very long in the neck, but the 

 roots of the above variety were nearly all perfect in shape. 



All were grown in rich loam soil in the lower portion of the valley. The sow- 

 ing was done with the Planet Jr. drill, in level drills 30 inches apart. 



Two sowings were made, one on the 15th May and the other two weeks later. 

 The first sowing was nearly destroyed by cut-worms just as the plants appeared 

 above ground. Several remedies were tried, and air-slacked lime applied near the 

 plants appeared to do the most good, but in spite of all we could do the first sowing 

 was nearly destroyed. The second sowing escaped injury from this cause, but the 

 crop was somewhat late for the best results. All were pulled on the 22nd October. 



The returns given were calculated from weighing thi-ee rows, each 66 feet long. 



Variety. 



Highland Prize (Simmers) 



Imperial (Webb) 



Mammoth Purple Top (Evans) 

 Elephant or Monarch (Steele) 

 Selected Purple Top (Steele) . . 



New Giant King (Webb) 



Marquis of Lome (Bruce) 



Clyde Improved (Evans) 



Bangholm (Simmers) 



Hartley's Bronze (Pearce) 



Purple Top Swede (Rennie). . . 

 Skirving's Swede (Steele) . . . . 

 Carter's Elephant (Bruce) 



Turnips — Garden Varieties. 



Long White Verties 



Early White Stone 



Early Six Weeks . 



Orange Jelly 



White Globe Strapleaf 



Red Top Strajjleaf 



Burpee's Breadstone 



Extra Early Milan 



Sweet German 



Early White Flat Dutch 



Lang's Improved Purple Top. 

 Hasyard's Improved 



Yield per Acre. 



28 



312 



200 



1,936 



1,296 



1,164 



1,164 



708 



768 



1,316 



056 



1,600 



584 



820 

 600 

 880 

 1,560 

 1,120 

 1,860 

 1,200 

 1,920 

 1,280 

 1,060 

 1,760 

 1,560 



