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UlLl'EKl MENTAL FAltUS 



2 GEORGE V.,. A. 1912 



EXPERIMENTS WITH TURNIPS. 



Ten varieties of turnips were sown in drills two feet apart. Two sowings of each 

 variety were made, the first on May 4, and the second on May 18. Four drills of one 

 hundred feet in length were sown of each variety and the yield in each case was com- 

 puted from the yield of sixty-six feet of the two centre rows in each plot. 



The first part of the season was dry and unfavourable, but rains in August started 

 the growth, which, during the last few weeks, was rapid. The yield was a fairly good 

 one and the quality very good. The soil was a light sandy loam, but a heavy growth 

 of clover had been turned under in July of the previous year and a dressing of about 

 ten loads of barn-yard manure per acre was spread and worked into the soil with the 

 disc and drag harrows. Early in the spring, the land was disced and worked over with 

 the spike-toothed drag and was in fine tilth when the seed was sown, and the plots were 

 very free from weeds. The plants were thinned to about eight or nine inches apart in 

 the drills. The roots were pulled on October 22. 



Turnips — Test of Varieties. 



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Name of Variety. 



Jumbo 



Halewood's Bronze Top. 



Perfection Swede 



Hall's Westbury , 



Good Luck 



Mammoth Clyde 



Magnum Bouum 



Hartley's Bronze 



Carter's Elephant 



Bangholm Selected 



EXPERIMENTS WITH MANGELS. 



Eight varieties of mangels were sown in the comparative test plots this season. 

 The soil was a sandy loam, underlaid with gravel, and suffers if the season is very dry. 

 It was in clover the previous year and one crop was taken off it in June. After the 

 hay was removed, the land was given a light dressing of stable manure, about ten 

 loads per acre, which was scattered thinly and then harrowed with the spike-toothed 

 drag. In July, a fine growth of clover was turned under and immediately rolled and 

 harrowed. 



Early this season, the land was gone over repeatedly with the disc and spike- 

 toothed drag and was in fine tilth when the first sowing was made on May 4. Another 

 set of plots were sown on May 18. The ground was rather dry and the seed was very 

 alow in germinating and the stand uneven. 



Four drills, each one hundred feet long, of each variety, were sown at both sow- 

 ings with the drills two feet apart, and, where necessary, the plants were thinned t<-> 

 about eight inches in the drill. The yield per acre was computed from the product of 

 sixty-six feet of the two centre drills in each plot. 



The mangels were all pulled on October 21. 



