REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



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Name of Variety. 



East Lothian ,., 



Good Luck 



Halewood's Bronze Top. 



Tumbo 



Hall's Westbury 



Imperial Swede 



Kmpexor Swede 



Magnum Bonum 



Giant King ...... 



Elephant's Master .... 



New Century 



Bangholni Selected 



Mammoth Clyde 



Prize Winner . 



Champion Purple Top. . 

 Shamrock Purple Top . . . 

 Drummond Purple Top. . 

 Perfection Swede ....... 



Prize Purple Top 



Skirvings 



Selected Purple Top . . . 



Marquis of Lome 



Monarch 



Carter's Elephant 



New Arctic 



West Norfolk Red Top-. 



Selected Champion 



Sutton's Champion 



Webb's New Renown . . 



Yield 



per Acre 



from 



Ist Sowing. 



Yield 



per Acre 



from 



2nd Sowing. 



1st Pulling 1st Pulling 

 Oct. 14. Oct. 14. 



Yield 



per Acre 



from 



1st Sowing 



2nd Pulling 

 Oct. 28. 



Tons. Lbs. Tons. Lbs. Tons. Lbs. 



53 

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 49 

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 46 

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39 

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 35 

 28 

 22 

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1,910 



280 



670 



360 



1,720 



1,720 



1,.S90 



730 



400 



1,740 



750 



1,430 



770 



770 



110 



110 



1,120 



790 



810 



480 



1,860 



1,530 



1,200 



1,880 



910 



930 



1,610 



1,420 



1,540 



1,580 



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1,960 



740 

 1,710 



880 

 1,420 

 1,090 

 1,260 



660 

 60 



490 

 1,.560 



660 



470 

 1,400 

 1,690 

 1,730 

 1,110 



820 

 1,1.30 



100 



940 

 80 

 1,830 

 1,150 

 1,230 

 1,440 



610 

 1,170 

 1,890 



260 



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.550 



1,390 



260 



1,700 



730 



1,780 



1,020 



750 



90 



1,190 



790 



1,060 



960 



770 



610 



1,890 



260 



1,950 



860 



340 



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1,740 



300 



1,610 



1,740 



1,240 



1,590 



1,320 



1,730 



Yield 



per Acre 



from 



'2nd Sowing. 



2nd Pulling 

 Oct. 28. 



Tons. Lbs. 



39 

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1,530 

 1,300 

 1,480 



100 

 1,170 

 1,790 

 1,770 



330 



140 

 1,930 

 1,130 

 1,050 



530 

 1,400 

 1,8.30 



660 

 1,110 

 1,900 



640 

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490 



480 

 1,130 



180 

 1,650 



200 

 1,910 

 1,030 



920 



Tons. Lbs. 



The average from the 1st sowing 1st pulling was 42 84 



The average from the 2nd sowing 1st pulling was 37 318 



The average from the 1st sowing 2nd pulling was 47 783 



The average from the 2nd sowing 2nd pulling was 28 794 



EXPERIMENTS WITH MANGELS. 



Twenty-eight varieties of mangels were under test in 1902. They were all sown 

 aide by side adjoining the Indian corn. The land was similar in character and its 

 treatment and preparation Avere the same. The drills were made up two feet apart and 

 rolled with a heavy land roller to make a firm bed before the seed was sown. Two 

 sowings were made of each sort — the first on May 12, the second on May 26. They 

 were also pulled on two different dates. The first pulling was on October 1 4, the 

 second on October 28. The yield per acre has been calculated in each case from the 

 weight of roots gathe?ed from one row 66 feet long. 



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