DIVISION OF FORAGE PLANTS 



937 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



MANGELS. 



Eleven varieties of mangels were sown on stubble land, manured the previous 

 fall, on May 5 and pulled September 26. They were sown in rows 28 inches apart and 

 thinned to about 10 or 12 inches apart in the rows. The size of the plots was M.ooth 

 of an acre each. They were irrigated on July 24. 



Maxgels. — Test of Varieties. 



No. 



1 

 2 

 3 

 4 

 5 

 6 

 7 

 8 

 9 

 10 

 11 



Variety. 



Gate Post . 



Selected Yellow Globe 



Giant Half Sugar White 



Danish Sludstrup 



Yellow Yellow Intermediate. . . . 



Yelkw Leviathan 



Pi affection Mammoth Long Red. 



Giant Yelluw Globe 



Prize Maumioth Long Red 



Mammoth Long Red 



Golden Tankard 



Average. 



Tons. 



2t 

 21 

 21 

 19 

 19 

 19 

 18 

 17 

 17 

 15 

 14 



19 



Yield per Acre. 



Lb. 



1,425 



1,725 

 ()75 

 1.575 

 l,4-'5 

 1,425 

 1,100 

 1,750 

 1,425 

 1,125 

 1,525 



470 



Bush. 



823 

 728 

 711 

 059 

 057 

 (557 

 618 

 5^5 

 590 

 518 



4'.;2 



041 



Lb. 



45 

 45 

 15 

 35 



5 

 5 

 20 

 50 

 25 

 45 

 5 



10 



CAEROTS. 



Ten varieties of carrots were sown May 7 on stubble land, manured the previous 

 fall, and were pulled October 10. They were sown in rows 28 inches apart and the 

 plants were thinned to about 6 or 8 inches apart in the rows. The size of the plots was 

 %8th of an acre each. They were irrigated July 24. 



Carrots. — Test of Varieties. 



No. 



1 



2 

 3 

 4 

 5 

 6 

 7 

 8 

 9 

 10 



Name of Variety . 



Ontario Cham [)ion 



Mammoth White Intermediate (C.E.F). . 



Cooper's Yellow Intermediate 



White Belgian 



Giant White Vosges 



Long Orange 



Half Long Chantenay 



Long Red Surrey 



Improved Short White 



Mammoth White Intermediate 



Average 



Yield per Acre. 



Tons Lb. 



17 

 17 

 16 

 18 

 13 

 12 

 13 

 11 

 14 

 11 



14 



1,084 



888 



1,173 



1,142 



1,342 



598 



1,061 



3ii3 



l,f^66 



1,888 



1,604 



Yield per Acre. 



5S4 

 ."SSI 

 5."i2 

 (;19 

 45") 

 4ii9 

 4()1 

 373 

 ■497 

 'MS 



493 



Bush. Lb. 



•44 



28 



53 

 •) 



42 

 58 



1 

 13 

 40 



8 



Lethbridge, 



