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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



64 VICTORIA, A. 1901 



EXPERIMEXTS WITH TURNIPS. 



The soil of these plots was a clay loam. The previous crop was oats, and the 

 Mammoth Red. Clover sown with this crop made a good mat to plough under. In 

 the fall of 1899, stable manure, at the rate of fifteen one-horse cartloads per acre, was 

 spread on and ploughed under with the clover. In the following spring this was 

 harrowed with the disc and smoothing harrows, and fifteen one-horse cartloads of 

 stable manure again applied and ploughed under. This was then gone over twice with 

 the disc, once with the spring-tooth, and once with the smoothing harrows, after which 

 100 pounds of bone meal and 100 pounds of complete fertilizer per acre was sown, 

 and harrowed in with the smoothing harrow. 



The land was drilled into rows 24 inches apart. The rows were raked off by hand, 

 a mark made along the top of the row, and the seed dropped, and lightly covered, after 

 which the land roller went over them. In the field crops, where part were rolled after 

 seeding, and others left unrolled, the plants started much more regular and vigorous 

 where not rolled. 



The first series of plots were sown May 29, and duplicate ones two weeks later,. 

 June 12. Both the early and late sown plots were pulled jSTovember 3, and the yield 

 per acre calculated from two rows, each 66 feet long. Twenty-eight varieties were 

 planted, with results as follows : — 



TURNIPS— TEST OF VARIETIES. 



No. 



1 

 2 

 S 



4 



5 



6 



7 



8 



9 



10 



11 



12 



13 



14 



15 



Ki 



17 



18 



1!) 



20 



21 



22 



23 



24 



25 



26 



27 



28 



Name of Variety. 



Sklrving's 



Imperial Swede 



Hartley's Bronze ... 



Monarch 



Carter's Elephant 



Selected Champion 



Kangaroo 



Drummond Purple Top 



Hall's Westbury 



Pearce's Prize Winner. . 

 East Lothian . ....... 



Halewood's Bronze Top 

 Shamrock Purple Top . . 



Prize Purple Top 



Elephant's Ma.stei 



Mammoth Clyde 



Perfection Swede 



Bangholm Selected 



New Arctic 



Magnum Bonum 



West Norfolk Red Top. 



Jumbo 



Champion Purple Top. . 

 Selected Purple Top. . . 



Marquis of Lome 



Giant King 



Sutton's Champion . . . . 

 Webb's Renown 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



1st Plot. 



Tons. Lbs. 



42 1,800 



42 1,305 



42 975 



42 480 



42 480 



40 1,075 



40 850 



38 1,880 



38 1,.550 



37 1,900 



37 1,075 



37 1,075 



37 745 



37 250 



37 250 



3(i (;oo 



35 950 



35 125 



34 1,.'^00 



34 1,.300 



33 l,'.i.Sl) 



33 l,f)50 



33 



33 



31 i',.52.5 



30 225 



30 



27 1,275 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



1st Plot. 



Bush. Lbs. 



1,430 

 1,421 

 1,41G 

 1,408 

 1,408 

 l,.3fil 

 1,347 

 1,298 

 1,292 

 1,265 

 1,251 

 1,251 

 1,245 

 1,2.S7 

 1,2.37 

 1,210 

 1,182 

 1,1G8 

 1,1.55 

 1,155 

 1,133 

 1,127 

 1,100 

 1,100 

 1,058 

 1,003 

 1,000 

 921 



45 

 15 



15 

 30 



30 



1.5 

 15 



45 

 30 

 30 



30 

 45 



30 



45 

 45 



is 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



2nd Plot. 



Tons. Lbs. 



26 

 29 

 25 

 23 

 21 

 25 

 26 

 26 

 27 

 26 

 28 

 28 

 23 

 26 

 26 

 21 

 25 

 23 

 22 

 29 

 28 

 22 

 24 

 30 

 18 

 18 

 29 

 26 



1,025 

 1,400 

 1,975 

 1,850 

 1,725 



325 

 1,1.50 

 1,025 



450 

 l,0-_>5 

 1,750 



ino 



1,8.50 



8(10 

 1,625 

 1,725 

 1,975 

 1,025 

 1,375 

 1, 400 



92"> 

 1,375 



675 

 1,0.50 

 1,455 

 l,9.'-)0 



.575 

 1,625 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



2nd Plot. 



Bush. 



893 

 990 

 866 

 797 

 729 

 838 

 8.52 

 893 

 907 

 893 

 967 

 935 

 797 

 880 

 893 

 729 

 866 

 783 

 750 

 990 

 948 

 756 

 811 

 1,017 

 624 

 632 

 970 

 893 



Lbs. 



45 



15 

 .30 

 45 

 45 

 30 

 45 

 30 

 4.5- 

 30 



30 



45 

 45 

 15 

 45 

 15 



45 

 15 

 1.5 

 .30 

 15 

 30 

 15 

 45 



