DITISIOX OF CEEMI&TRY 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Dry Matter and Sugar in Gate Post and Giant Yellow Globe Mangels. 



TURNIPS. 



This series comprises nineteen varieties and the following table gives the results 

 of their examination in the order of their dry matter content. 



Analysis of Turnips, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ont., 1913. 



Variety. 



Elephant 



Lapland 



Hartley's Bronze Top. . . 



Perfection 



Hazard's Improved 



Kangaroo 



Skirvings 



Canadian Gem 



Hall's Westbury 



Mammoth Clyde 



Good Luck 



Bangholm 



Jumbo. ... 



Halewood's Bronze Top. 



Magnum Bonum 



New Century 



Stubb 



Best of All 



Destersundom 



Water. 



Per cent. 



88 

 89 

 89 

 89 

 90 



-39 

 -56 

 •81 

 -96 

 14 



90 15 

 90 19 



90 

 90 

 90 

 90 

 90 

 90 

 90 

 90 

 91 

 91 

 91 

 91 



24 



34 



-35 



44 



-49 



50 



55 



-61 



•10 



-24 



•90 



-95 



Sugar in 

 Juice. 



Per cent. 



44 

 73 

 32 

 52 

 52 

 42 

 63 

 83 

 53 

 83 

 42 

 42 

 42 

 62 

 42 

 52 

 83 

 42 

 42 



Avernge 

 Weight of 

 One Root. 



Lb. 



2 

 3 

 2 

 2 

 3 

 3 

 4 

 4 

 2 

 1 

 2 

 2 

 2 



2 

 3 

 2 



Oz. 



9 



2 



6 



5 



8 

 10 







1 



4 

 15 

 13 



2 



9 

 8 

 4 

 15 

 2 

 7 

 8 



