REPORT OF MR. S. A. BEDFORD 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



335 



As usual two sowings were made. In every instance the early sown plots gave the 

 largest returns. 



The first plots were sown on May 20, and the second on June 3. The roots from 

 both were pulled on October 4. The estimate of yield has been made from the pro- 

 duce of two rows, each 66 feet long. 



Turnips — Test of Varieties. 



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Name of Variety. 



Bangholm Selected 



Sutton's Champion 



Carter's Elephant 



Imperial Swede 



New Century . . . 



Hartley's Bronze . 



Good Luck 



Perfection Swede 



i Elephant's Master 



Emperor Swede 



Hall's Westbury 



Halewood's Bronze Top., 



Mammoth Clyde 



Urunmiond Purple Top. 



Magnu in Bonum 



Sktrving.'! .... 



.Tumbo 



East Lothian 



Selected Purple Top 



Kangaroo 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



2nd Plot. 



Bush. Lbs. 



968 . . 



576 24 



677 36 



888 48 



607 12 



831 36 



800 48 



6G4 24 



761 12 



6.o5 36 



919 36 



818 24 



734 48 



712 48 



717 12 



761 12 



646 48 



686 24 



708 24 



558 48 



EXPERIMENTS WITH MANGELS. 



We find that mangels are relished by nearly all kinds of farm animals, cat- 

 tle, swine and even chickens eat them readily. Unlike turnips they do not injure the 

 quality of milk and its products. 



As mangel seed is large and somewhat slow to germinate, the soil should be mel- 

 low and moist and the seed sown from two to three inches deep. 



The roots are susceptible to injury from fall frosts, for which reason the crop 

 should be pulled before the weather becomes cevere. 



Seventeen varieties of mangels have been on trial at the Experimental Farm this 

 year. The yield was above the average and all were saved without injury. 



The soil used for this crop was a black loam fertilized in the fall of 1904 with ten 

 loads per acre of well rotted stable manure. The previous crop was turnips. The 

 first sowing was made on May 20 and the second on June 3. All were pulled on Octo- 

 ber 4. 



The estimate of yield has been made from the product of two rows 66 feet long. 



