REPORT OF MR. X. WOLYERTOlf 



315 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Turnips — Test of Vauikties. 



Name of Variety 



1 Hartley's Bronze 



2 Sutton's Champion. . . , 



3 Hill's Westbury 



4 (iood Luck 



5 Banghohn Selected .. . 



6 Jumbo 



TjCarler's Elephant 



8 Mag'num Bonum 



9 Iiuperial Swede. .... 

 10' Emperor Swede. . . . 



11 [Mammoth Cl3'de 



12 Kangaroo 



13 Perfection Swede 



14 Elephant's Master 



15 Selected Purple Top. . 

 Hi East Lothian. 

 ]7 

 18 

 19 



Halewood's Bronze Top. 



New Century 



Drummond Purple Top. 

 Skirvings 



Ton: 



2(5 

 2G 

 25 

 25 

 25 

 24 

 24 

 23 

 22 

 22 

 21 

 21 

 20 

 20 

 20 

 20 

 19 

 19 

 18 

 18 



Yield per acre. 



1st Plot. 



Lbs. 



1,8.50 



1,592 



1,744 



952 



424 



576 



48 



1,784 



880 



88 



1,5G0 



1,032 



1,976 



1,448 



1,184 



392 



544 



16 



1,488 



696 



Bu.=>h. Lbs. 



897 

 893 

 862 

 849 

 840 

 809 

 800 

 796 

 748 

 734 

 726 

 717 

 699 

 690 

 686 

 673 

 642 

 633 

 624 

 611 



36 

 12 

 24 

 12 

 24 

 36 

 48 

 24 



48 



\2 

 36 

 48 

 24 

 12 

 24 

 36 

 48 

 36 



2nd Plot. 



Tons. Lbs. Bush. Lbs. 



20 

 19 

 17 

 19 

 15 

 19 

 16 

 18 

 19 

 16 

 16 

 16 

 18 

 IG 

 19 

 13 

 17 

 19 

 13 

 18 



1,184 

 1,072 

 1,904 



808 

 1,944 

 1,600 



736 

 1,224 



808 

 1.264 



208 

 1,792 

 1,752 



472 



2S0 

 1,984 

 1,376 

 1,336 



664 



168 



686 

 651 

 598 

 646 

 532 

 660 

 545 

 620 

 646 

 554 

 .536 

 563 

 629 

 541 

 638 

 466 

 589 

 655 

 444 

 602 



24 

 12 

 24 

 48 

 24 



36 

 2i 

 48 

 24 

 48 

 12 

 12 

 12 



24 

 36 

 36 

 24 

 43 



EXPERBIENTS WITH MANGELS. 



Mangels are relished by nearly all kinds of farm animals; cattle, 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 severe. 



Sixteen 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 1905, with ten 

 loads per acre of well rotted manure. The first sowing was made on May 23, and the 

 second on June 7. All were pulled on October 8. 



The estimate of yield per acre has been made from the product of two rows 66 



feet long. 



The average yield of Prize Winner Yellow Globe, for five years has been 26 tons, 

 1,120 lbs., or SS5 bushels 20 lbs. per acre. 



