REPORT OF MR. THOMAS A. ^niRPE 

 SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



TURNIPS. — TEST OP VARIETIES. 



367 



Name of Variety. 



Carter's Elephant 



.Tiiinbo 



Hull's Westbury 



Skirvings 



Prize Winner 



Marquis of Lome 



Druininond Purple Top 



Kangaroo 



Champion Purple Top . 



P>iiil)eror Swede 



Perfection Swede 



Prize )'urple Top 



(Joi)d Luck 



Selected Purple Tep . . . 



New Century 



New Arctic 



Monarch 



^lagnum Bonum 



(jiant King 



Ini[)erial Swede 



Halewfx)d's Bronze Top 



Elephant's Master 



Shamrock Purple Top. . 



Sutton's Champion 



East Lothian 



Bangholm Selected . . . 

 West Norfolk Red Top 

 Webb's New Renown. 

 Selected Cham^jion 



Yield per 



Acre. 



Ist Plot. 



Tons. Lbs, 



31 

 28 

 2H 

 27 

 27 

 2f) 

 26 

 20 

 26 

 26 

 25 

 25 

 25 

 25 

 24 

 24 

 24 

 24 

 23 

 23 

 23 

 23 

 22 

 21 

 20 

 20 

 20 

 19 

 16 



1 



40 



265 



100 



440 



120 



1,9.55 



1,130 



800 



470 



140 



448 



82<J 



160 



160 



1,.500 



840 



075 



675 



1,850 



1,520 



1,355 



800 



880 



240 



920 



590 



425 



160 



1,060 



Yield per 

 Acre. 



1st Plot. 



1,034 

 937 

 935 

 924 

 902 

 899 

 885 

 880 

 874 

 869 

 858 

 847 

 830 

 836 

 825 

 814 

 811 

 811 

 797 



. 792 

 789 

 781 

 748 

 704 

 682 

 676 

 673 

 6()0 

 561 



45 



15 

 30 



30 



15 

 15 

 30 



i5 



30 

 45 



Yield per 

 A era 



2nd Plot. 



Bush. Lbs, 



1,094 

 957 



1,012 

 869 

 940 

 874 

 951 

 836 



1,001 

 957 

 814 

 869 

 957 

 924 



1,001 

 809 

 '582 

 302 

 792 

 979 

 924 

 891 



1,001 

 951 

 913 

 897 

 704 

 555 

 660 



30 



30 

 30 



30 



io 



10 



10 



30 

 45 

 30 



EXPERIMENTS WITH MANGELS. 



Twenty-seven varieties of mangels were tested alongside, sown in drills thirty inches 

 apart The soil was a clay loam, a heavy clover sod had been ploughed under in the 

 spring of 1901 and a crop of mixed grain for feed grown. In the winter of 1901-1902 

 it was dressed with farm-yard manure, which was well mixed with the soil and turned 

 under in April and thoroughly harrowed every few days until May 6, when the first 

 sowing was made. Four rows of each variety were sown and on May 20 a similar plot 

 alongside was sown with the same variety in each case. All these test plots were 

 pulled October 22, and the yield per acre computed from the produce of 6G feet of the 

 two centre rows in each plot. 



