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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



5 GEORGE v., A. 1S15 



The following table records the varieties growB, their characteristics 

 and yields: — 



Yields of Turnips, Fredericton, 1913. 



Variety. 



Invicta 



Lapland 



Good Luck 



Hale woods Bronze lop 

 Hall's Westbury 



Hartley's Bronze top.. 



Jumbo 



Perfection 



Bangholm 



Hazards Improved 



New Century 



Description. 



Purple top 

 Green " 

 Purple " 

 Bronze " 

 Purple " 



Bronze " 

 Purple " 



Purple " 



swede, smooth and even 



pronged and uneven 



smooth, fairly even 



smooth and even 



small, smooth, even, and very 



shapely 



fairly smooth and even 



rather rough 



large, even, fairly smooth 



fairly smooth and even 



smooth and even 



large, fairly smooth, uneven.. . 



Average yield per acre: 670 bushels or 20 tons 200 pounds. 



Yield per acre. 



Lb. 



1,500 



35 



400 



175 



800 



1,3.50 



80 



800 



800 

 360 



FENCINQ. 



The fencing used is of number nine galvanized woven wire throughout, 48 inches 

 high, nine strands, with uprights every 16^ inches. The wire is stapled to cedar posts 

 placed one rod apart and from 3 to 4 feet in the ground. J3oth side lines and part of 

 the road fences have been built, while posts have been set along some of the field fence 

 lines, in readiness for the wire. 



CLEARING LAND. 



The first clearing operation was the burning of the brush and bushes left after 

 the cut of the winter. In all, 150 acres were cleared and burned over. The larger 

 stones were used in building a driveway over a ravine which crosses the land being 

 cleared. Dynamite was used to break up the boulders into pieces that could be moved 

 by a two-horse team. A powerful stumping machine was tried on green stumps, but 

 this method of operation was found more expensive than the use of stumping powder 

 and the removal of the shattered portions with a direct horse hitch. The stumps of 

 the softer trees were readily removed by means of direct team hitch. About fifty 

 acres were cleared in this way, and will be ready for crop in 1914. 



Fredericton. 



