REPOIiT OF MR. R. ROIiERTSON 327 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTS WITH TURNIPS. 



The land chosen for the turnip plots was in f^rain the previous season, having 

 Leen in roots in 1992, for which crop 30 one-horse cart-loads of stable manure per acre 

 was used. It was ploughed in the fall and worked up this spring once with the spade 

 harrow and manured at the rate of 25 one-horse cart-loads of stable manure per acre 

 and ploujrlicd. This was worked up with the spade harrow again and once with the 

 springtooth. Complete fertilizer at the rate of 400 lbs. per acre was sown broadcast, 

 and harrowed in with the smoothing harrow. The ground was run into rows 24 inches 

 apart. The rows were raked oft" by hand, and the plots planted with the Planet Jr., 

 seed drill No. 5. The plants were thinned to about one foot apart in the rows. The 

 soil was a light clay loam. The plots were sown ]\ray 30, and a duplicate .set planted 

 June 13. Twenty varieties were included in the test. The crops on both sets of plots 

 were pulled October 24, and the yield per acre calculated from the weight obtained 

 from 2 rows each of G6 feet long. Continued dry weather from the time of sow- 

 ing up to July 21 resulted in the plants making poor progress. Some plants were 

 destroyed by cut-worms. The latter part of the season was favourable for growth. 



TUKXIPS — TEST OF VARIETIF.S. 



.a 



3 



1 



2 

 3 

 4 

 5 



6 



T 

 i 



8 

 9 



10 

 11 

 12 

 13 

 14 

 15 

 IG 

 17 

 18 

 19 

 20 



Name of Variety. 



Perfection Swede 



Jumbo 



Good Luck 



Carter's Elephant 



Hartley's Bronze 



Emperor Swede 



Selected Purple Top 



Kangaroo 



Drummond Purple Top. 



Magnum Bonum 



Mammoth Clyde 



Hall's Westbury 



Sutton's ChaTnpion . . . . 

 Halewood's Bronze Top 



Imperial Swede 



Skirvings 



Bangholm Selected 



Elephant's Master 



Xew Ccnturj' 



Eaiit Lothian 



Yield per 



Acre 1st Plot 



Sown. 



Tons. Lbs. 



40 

 39 

 3S 

 38 

 33 

 37 

 37 

 37 

 37 

 3(5 

 35 

 35 

 35 

 35 

 34 

 33 

 .32 

 31 

 31 

 30 



335 



375 



1,880 



1,220 



G25 



1,900 



1,735 



745 



250 



1,425 



1.775 



950 



785 



455 



1,300 



1,980 



1,175 



1,855 



205 



1,545 



I 



Yield per | Yield per 



Acre 2nd Plot Acre 2nd Plot 



Sown. Sown. 



Tons. Lbs. 



34 

 35 

 35 

 32 

 34 

 35 

 30 

 33 

 31 

 34 

 33 

 33 

 33 

 33 

 31 

 28 

 28 

 33 

 31 

 29 



1,300 



785 



125 



350 



475 



950 



1,875 



1,980 



1,855 



145 



825 



1,G50 



1,155 



700 

 925 

 255 

 495 

 1,.525 

 575 



Bush. Lbs. 



1 ,155 

 1,179 

 1,1G8 

 1,072 

 1,141 

 1,182 

 1,031 

 1,133 

 1,0(14 

 1,1.S5 

 1,113 

 1.127 

 1,119 

 1,100 

 1,045 

 948 

 937 

 1,108 

 1,058 

 97G 



45 

 45 

 30 

 15 

 30 

 15 



15 

 45 

 45 

 30 

 15 



45 

 35 

 15 

 45 

 15 



FIELD CROP OF TURNIPS — FERTILIZER EXPERIMENTS. 



Seven acres of turnips were sown June 10 and 14 on soil of a light clay loam 

 character. The soil was the same as that on which the field corn and mangels were 

 .grown. One-third running across one end of the field was in clover the previous year, 

 in grain in 1902, and roots in 1901, for which crop 30 one-horse cart-loads of stable 

 manure per a<;re was used. One-third running across the centre of the field was in 

 groin last year, having been manured in 1902 for roots at the rate of 35 one-hoi'se 

 cart-loads per acre, and one-third running across the other end of the field was in roots 

 last year, having been manured for that crop with 35 one-horse cart-loads of stable 

 manure per acre. The rows ran lengthwise of the field across each of these thre-3 

 differently treated pieces of laud. The pieces ou which clover and oats were grown 



