REPORT OF MR. R. ROBERTSON 



327 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



field crops of tukmps i— Concluded. 



Name of Variety, how Fertilized, Size of Plot. 



Eleph-ant—(Sovrn June 27— Pulled N'ov. 14). 

 h acre manure and fertilizer, 300 lbs. per acre 



only. 



Cost per acre of 300 lbs . fertilizer at $32 per ton $ 4 80 



Value per acre in crop over manure only, 30 bush. 20 lbs. 



at 6 cts 1 82 



Loss per acre $ 2 98 



Purple Top— (Sown June 27— Pulled Nov. 15). 



i acre manure and fertilizer, 300 lbs per acre 



£ ii only 



Cost per acre of 300 lbs. fertilizer at $32 per ton $ 4 80 



Value per acre in crop over manure only, 21 bush. 40 lbs. 



at 6 cts 130 



Loss per acre $ 3 50 



Yield per Acre. 



Bush. 



710 

 689 



Lbs. 

 20 



690 

 668 



20 

 40 



FIELD CROPS OF TURNIPS II. 



Two acres of turnips were grown in eight lots of one-fourth of an acre each. The 

 land was a clay loam, the previous crop having been grain. This was ploughed in the 

 fall of 1909, well cultivated in the spring and barn-yard manure spread on the surface 

 at the rate of twenty tons per acre. This was ploughed under and again thoroughly 

 cultivated. To one-half of each quarter acre, commercial fertilizer (made up in the 

 proportion of superphosphate, l£ lbs.; bone meal, 1£ lbs.; nitrate of soda, 1 lb.: 

 muriate of potash, 1 lb.) at the rate of three hundred lbs. per acre was added, the other 

 half of each quarter acre receiving barn-yard manure only. 



Besides thinning, they were gone over with the hoe once, and cultivated with a 

 one-horse cultivator between the rows at least four times during the season. 



The following table shows the results obtained : — 



FIKLH CROPS OF TURNIPS II. 



Name of Variety, how Fertilized, Size of Plot. 



Banffkolm Selected— (Sown June 11— Pulled Oct. 18). 



acre manure and fertilizer, 300 lbs. per acre 



ii only 



>st per acre of 300 lbs. fertilizer at $32 per ton $ 4 80 



Value per acre in crop over manure only, 77 bush. 20 lbs. at 6c. 4 64 



Loss per acre 16 



Yield per Acre. 



Tons. 



26 



23 



Lbs. 



1,920 

 1,280 



Yield per Acre. 



Bush. 



865 

 788 



Lbs. 

 20 



