REPORT OF MR. S. A. BEDFORD. 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Turnips — Test op Varieties. 



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Name of Variety. 



1 

 2 

 3 



4: 

 5 

 6 

 7 

 8 

 9 



10 

 11 

 12 

 13 

 14 

 15 

 16 

 17 

 18 

 19 

 20 

 21 

 22 

 23 

 24 

 25 

 26 

 27 

 28 



ChampioH Purple Top. . 



Giant King , 



Webb's New Renown , . , 



Perfection Swede 



Magnum Bonum 



Carter's Elephant 



Hartley's Bronze 



Prize Punjle Top 



Selected Champion .... 



Imperial Swede 



Kangaroo 



Drummond Purple Top. 



Prize Winner 



Skirving's , 



Sutton's Champion 



East Lothian 



Elephant's Master 



Shamrock Purple Top . . 



Selected Purple Top 



West Norfolk Red Top. 



New Arctic 



Marquis of Lome 



Monarch 



Mammoth Clyde , 



•Jumbo 



Hall's Westbury 



Bangholm Selected 



Halewood's Bronze Top 



Yield 

 Per Acre. 



1st Plot. 



Bush. Lbs. 



418 

 352 

 352 

 352 

 347 

 334 

 330 

 330 

 330 

 308 

 308 

 303 

 286 

 286 

 286 

 272 

 242 

 268 

 250 

 250 

 259 

 233 

 220 

 215 

 198 

 184 

 176 

 154 



36 

 24 



36 



48 



24 

 48 

 48 

 36 

 12 



36 



48 



Yield 

 Per Acre. 



2nd Plot. 



Bush. Lbs. 



356 

 286 

 506 

 431 

 330 

 286 

 440 

 422 

 506 

 440 

 352 

 338 

 418 

 528 

 374 

 435 

 308 

 484 

 378 

 426 

 308 

 374 

 286 

 374 

 .378 

 528 

 484 

 396 



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EXPERIMENTS WITH MANGELS. 



The soil on which the mangels were grown was a rich clay loam and the previous 

 crop was fodder com. Twenty-three varieties were tested. Two sowings were made 

 of each variety, the first on May 19, the second on June 2, and the roots from both 

 were pulled October 2. The seed was sown in drills thirty inches apart, and the yield 

 has been calculated from the weight of roots gathered from two rows each 66 feet long. 



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