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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



64 VICTORIA, A. 1901 



* The first crop of hay can be cut the next year after seeding, and will, in ordinary 

 years, be ready early in July. Twenty days after being ready to cut for hay it will 

 be fit to cut for seed if so desired. 



' On this farm it has always been cut in first bloom for hay, and twenty days 

 from this time it is considered in proper condition to cut for seed. 



' In cutting for seed, a bidder is used and the grass is cut, tied and stooked the 

 same as wheat or other grain. In a week or ten days after cutting it is ready to thresh 

 or store away. 



' For threshing small quantities, the old fashioned flail is suitable, but for large 

 lots a threshing machine should be used on which the wind has been shut off aa 

 much as practicable. From three to six hundred poimds of seed may be expected 

 from an acre.' 



EXPEEIMENTS WITH FIELD EOOTS. 



The root crop was, on the whole, a poor one. Turnips and mangels, while sound 

 and good, were small; sugar-beets were small and carrots an entire failure, the seed 

 not germinating till the end of July. Turnips and mangels were considerably inj\ired 

 by drifting earth cutting the young leaves. 



The land used for roots was a clay loam, fallowed in 1899, and ploughed and 

 harrowed before seeding, which, on account of the top soil drying out, proved detri- 

 mental to germination. Two sowings were made in each case, the second sowing about 

 a week later than the first. The yield per acre has been calculated from the weight 

 produced from two rows, each 66 feet long. In the following tables the results are 

 given of the testing of twenty-eight varieties of turnips, twenty-two of mangels, and 

 six of sugar beets : — 



Turnips — Test of Varieties. 



