REPORT OF MR. R. ROBEilTSON 



275 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Turnips — Test of Varieties. 



g 

 3 



Name of Variety. 



1 Magnum Bonum. 

 2;Perfoction Swede 

 SiEmpire Swe ie. . . 



Hartley's iironze 



Carter's Elephant 



Skirvings 



Good Luck 



Drummond Purple Top 



East Lothian 



Selected Purple Top . 



Jumbo 



Hall's Westbury 



Bangholm Selected .... 



Kangaroo 



Elephant's Master 



Mammoth Clyde 



Halewood's Bronze Top 



Imperial Swede 



New Century 



Yield per 

 Acre. 



1st Plot. 



Bush. Lbs. 



1,449 

 1,378 

 1,368 

 1,360 

 1,337 



4 

 8 



24 



36 



1,322 24 



1,317 

 1,314 

 1,309 

 1,307 

 1,297 

 1,264 

 1,238 

 1,198 

 1,193 

 1,188 

 1,180 

 1,172 

 1,150 

 1,140 



20 

 48 

 44 

 12 



4 



8 

 48 

 16 

 12 



8 

 32 

 56 



8 



Yield per 

 Acre. 



2nd Plot. 



Tons. Lbs . 



37 

 29 

 29 

 28 

 22 

 27 

 28 

 24 

 25 

 26 

 31 

 28 

 31 

 23 

 31 

 28 

 28 

 27 

 26 

 28 



532 



1,123 



1,88S 



1,456 



1,904 



1,328 



240 



1,248 



1,984 



440 



776 



696 



624 



392 



116 



1,000 



1,304 



1,936 



488 



1,000 



Yield per 

 Acre. 



2nd Plot. 



Bush. Lbs. 



1,243 52 



985 28 



998 8 



957 36 



965 

 922 



4 



8 



937 20 



82(J 48 



866 24 

 874 



1,046 16 



944 56 



1,043 44 



930 52 



1,035 16 

 950 



955 4 



923 16 



874 48 

 950 



FIELD CHOPS OF TUHmPS. 



Two and a half acres of turnips were sown in two lots of one acre each, and one lot 

 of one-half acre. The land was a clay loam in a good state of fertility. The previous 

 crop had been clover hay. The sod was ploughed in the fall and well worked up; it 

 was again well worked up in the spring, and manure at the rate of 20 tons per acre 

 spread on and ploughed under, it was then gone over with spring-tooth and disc 

 harrows. 



Each acre was divided into three parts, to one-third was added commercial fer- 

 tilizer at the rate of 500 lbs. per acre, to another third at the rate of 250 lbs. per acre, 

 and one-third left with manure alone, this was spread on the surface and harrowed in 

 with the smoothing harrow, after which rows were run 26 inches apart, and the seed 

 sown June 7. This crop grew exceptionally well until the early autumn, when the con- 

 tinued extremely dry weather retarded the growth considerably. The crop was harvested 

 Nov. 4 and 6, with the following results : — 



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