384 



EXPERIMElfTAL FAJUIS 



7-8 EDWARD VII., A. 1908 

 Corn Sottn at DiyrRRBirr DigxANcrs Apart 



Name of Variety. 



Champion 'SVhite Pearl. 



Dst« 



of 



Sowing. 



May 



Longfellow 



Selected I4^aIning. 



Charactw 



of 

 Growth. 



Strong' 





In. 



21 

 28 

 35 

 42 

 iil 

 28 

 35 

 43 

 21 

 28 

 35 

 42 



In. 



21 



28 

 35 

 42 

 21 

 28 

 35 

 42 

 21 

 28 

 35 

 42 



Condition 

 when cut. 



Early milk 



It 

 Late milk 



If 

 Early milk, 



Late milk, 

 Glazing. . , 

 Early milk- . 



Late milk. 



Weight per 

 Acre 

 grown in 

 rows. 



Tons. Lbs. 



25 

 20 

 17 

 15 

 19 

 16 

 IG 

 14 

 19 

 15 

 12 

 10 



Weight per 



Acre 



grown in 



hills. 



1,480 



1,489 



1,300 



92(j 



1,847 



80 



1,264 



380 



280 



2m 



1,7PG 

 305 



ions. 



24 

 20 

 17 

 14 

 20 

 15 

 15 

 14 

 19 

 14 

 13 

 10 



Lbs. 



1,594 



392 



IGO 



1,933 



1,108 



843 



885 



1,417 



1,222 



1,134 



475 



835 



EXPEEBEENTS WITH FIELD ROOTS. 

 All the experiments with field roots were alongside each other on sandy loam 

 that had a heavy clover stubble turned uuder in the autumn of 1904, and a crop of 

 field pease the summer of 1906, followed by a heavy dressing of stable manure in the 

 winter of 1905, which was well worked into the soil with drag and spade harrow 

 and the soil kept open and mellow until the roots were sown in 1906. Two sowings of 

 each variety were made fourteen days ajoart in drills thirty inches apart. Twenty 

 varieties of turnips, sixteen of mangels, ten of carrots and eight of sugar beets were 

 sown. The first sowing of turnips was on Hay 7, the second sowing on May 21 ; with 

 all the other roots the first sowing was made April 21, and the. second May 5. Eour 

 rows each 100 feet long were sown and the yield per acre was found by weighing the 

 crop from 66 feet of the two centre rows of each sowing of every variety. They were 

 all harvested October 30 and 31, excepting the turnips. These were taken up from 

 both sowings on November 1. The si)ring was so cold and showery that the seed did 

 not germinate freely and tlie summer and early autumn so dry that the root crops 

 were unusually light. 



TuRN'iPS — Test op Yarieties. 



s 



I 

 2 



^1 



7i 

 8: 



9| 

 10| 



12; 

 13 

 14 

 15 

 16 

 17 

 18 

 19 



Name of Variety. 



Yield pek Acre. 



1st Plot. 



Good Luck 



Kangaroo 



Jumbo 



Halewood's Broiize Top-. 

 Perfection Swede. . . . 



Emperor 



Iiiipeiial 



Magnum Bonum 



Eleph^Crit's Mastei 



New Century 



Sutton's Chaiiipion . . 

 Carter's Elejihant-. . . 

 Drummond Purple Top 



East Lothian 



Bangholm Selected ... 

 Hall's Westbury. .. . 



Skirving's 



Hartley's Bronze 



Selected Purple Top 



Mammoth Clyde 



Tons. 

 23 

 21 

 21 

 21 

 20 

 18 

 18 

 17 

 16 

 16 

 15 

 15 

 15 

 14 

 14 

 13 

 13 

 12 

 11 

 10 



Lbs. 



200 



1,032 



600 



240 



1,760 



960 



432 



1,376 



208 



142 



1,944 



1,GS0 



1,152 



1,172 



488 



928 



664 



652 



1,760 



1,120 



2nd Plot. 



Busli. Lbs. Tons. 

 770 

 717 12 



I 



710 

 704 

 696 

 616 

 607 

 689 

 538 

 535 

 532 

 528 

 519 

 488 

 474 

 448 

 441 

 409 

 396 

 352 



12 



S6 

 48 

 42 

 24 



i2 



12 

 48 

 48 

 24 

 12 



15 

 18 

 17 

 17 

 17 

 17 

 16 

 13 

 14 

 16 

 16 

 21 

 15 

 16 

 10 

 15 

 7 

 8 

 10 

 7 



Lbs. 



1,150 



1,488 



1,640 



848 



5'<4 



584 



1,792 



928 



1,668 



1,192 



184 



240 



360 



340 



136 



96 



1,078 



363 



1,120 



784 



Bush, 

 .519 

 624 

 594 

 5'50 

 576 

 576 

 663 

 448 

 492 

 553 

 536 

 704 

 606 

 539 

 335 

 501 

 250 

 272 

 352 

 246 



Lbs. 

 12 

 48 



48 

 24 

 24 

 12 

 48 

 48 

 12 

 24 



36 



3G 

 48 

 48 



24 



