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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



MANGELS TEST OF VARIETIES. 



2-3 EDWARD VII., A. 1903 



Name of Variety. 



Mammoth Long Red 



Warden Orange Globe 



Lion Yellow Intermediate 



Half Long Sugar White 



Giant Yellow Intermediate 



Selected Mammoth Long Red. . . 



Ward's Large Oval Shaped 



Champion Yellow Globe, 



Yellow Intermediate 



Canadian Giant 



Prize Mammoth Long Red 



Mammt)th Oval Shaped 



Giant Yellow Globe 



Giant Sugar Mangel 



Half Long Sugar Rosy 



Norbiton Giant 



Prize Mammoth Long Red 



Selected Yellow Globe 



Gate Post 



Yellow Fleshed Tankard 



Prize Winner Yellow Globe 



Golden Fleshed Tankard 



Giant Yellow Half Long. .. 



Mammoth Yellow Intermediate. 



Gate Post Yellow 



Triumph Yellow Globe 



Leviathan Long Red 



Yield per 



Acre, 

 2nd Plot. 



Tons. Lbs. 



37 

 34 

 38 

 36 

 36 

 37 

 38 

 32 

 38 

 34 

 36 

 27 

 32 

 28 

 42 

 31 

 33 

 28 

 36 

 26 

 26 

 32 

 26 

 33 

 31 

 26 

 30 



580 



1,630 



890 



1,920 



1,590 



1,900 



230 



1,505 



1,220 



970 



270 



285 



680 



100 



1,800 



40 



330 



430 



1,920 



800 



800 



1,670 



1,460 



330 



1,690 



865 



1,050 



Yield per 



Acre, 

 2nd Plot. 



Bush. Lbs. 



1,243 

 1,160 

 1,231 

 1,232 

 1,220 

 1,265 

 1,270 

 1,091 

 1,287 

 1,149 

 1,204 



904 

 1,078 



935 

 1,430 

 1,034 

 1,105 



940 

 1,232 



880 



880 

 1,094 



891 

 1,155 

 1,061 



881 

 1,017 



30 

 30 



30 



30 

 45 



30 



30 



85 



30 

 30 



30 



30 



5 



30 



EXPERIMENTS WITH CATiROTS. 



Twenty varieties of cari-ots were tested alongside of the turnips and mangels. The 

 land was similar and its preparation and treatment Avere the same. Two sowings of 

 each sort were made, four rows each, the first on May 6, the second on May 20, and 

 both were pulled October 28 The yield per acre has been calculated fro. the weight 

 of roots produced from two centre rows each 66 feet long. All were pulled October 22. 





