REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 



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varieties was sown 9th June also 2^ feet apart. Both were pulled on the 25th 

 October, The yield per acre has been calculated from the quantity obtained from 

 2 rows, 33 feet long and 2^ feet apart. 



The land used for these experiments was a heavy sandy loam of good quality 

 which was manured in the fall of 1891, about 18 tons being applied to the acre and 

 an oat crop was grown on it in 1892. It was ploughed from 7 to 8 inches deep in 

 the autumn of 1892, and gang-ploughed in the spring of 1893 and harrowed three 

 times and rolled before sowing. The seed was sown on the flat which we find to be 

 less economical than in ridges, the crop requiring more labour in thinning and 

 hoeing than when sown in ridges. 



The rot which has prevailed in the turnips here for the past two years and 

 was referred to in the annual report for 1892 injured the crop again this year, but 

 in a less degree than formerly, the injury however has been sufficient to lessen the 

 yield very much. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH TURNIPS — FIRST SERIES — SOWN JUNE IST. 



Name of variety. 



Marquis of Lome 



Prize Purple Top 



Carter's Prize Winner 



Bangholm Improved 



Jumbo or Monarch (Steele) . . . 



Mixed, from Agassiz, B.C 



Mammoth Purple Top 



Carter's Elephant Swede 



Bronze Purple Top 



Sutton's Champion 



Skirving's Purple Top 



Selected East Lothian 



Jumbo or Monarch (Vilmorin). 

 Clyde Improved 



Yield per Acre. 



Bush. Lbs 



552 

 457 

 440 

 402 

 393 

 360 

 352 

 343 

 330 

 290 

 286 

 279 

 279 

 233 



12 

 36 



36 

 48 

 48 

 00 

 12 

 00 

 24 

 00 

 24 

 24 

 12 



Experiments with Turnips — Second Series — Sown June 9th. 



Name of variety. 



Carter's Elephant Swede 



Selected East Lothian 



Purple Top, seed grown at Agassiz, B.C. 



Clyde Improved. 



Bronze Purple Top 



Simmer's Giant Swede 



Skirving's Purple Top 



Jumbo or Monarch (Vilmorin) 



Marquis of Lome 



Prize Purple Top 



Simmer's Champion Purple Top 



Carter's Prize Winner 



Elephant Swede (Agassiz) 



Sutton's Champion 



Mixed, from Agassiz 



Bangholm Improved , 



Mammoth Purple Top 



Jumbo or Monarch (Steele) 



Yield per Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



481 

 446 

 409 

 376 

 374 

 374 

 369 

 347 

 3.H4 

 330 

 312 

 294 

 266 

 246 

 244 

 235 

 211 

 147 



48 

 36 

 12 

 12 

 00 

 00 

 36 



m 



24 

 00 

 24 

 48 

 12 

 24 

 12 

 24 

 12 

 24 



8c-3i 



