REPORT OF MR. THOS. A. SHARPE 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



•Mangels — Test of Varieties. 



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Name of Variety. 



Perfection Mammoth Long Red 



Yellow Intermediate 



Half-Sugar White 



Giant Yellow Globe 



Gate Post 



Prize Mammoth Long R^d 



Selected Yellow Globe. 



Giant Yellow Intermediate 



Yield per Acre. 



Tons. Lbs. 



23 

 27 

 21 

 20 

 19 

 19 

 19 

 19 



1,420 

 1,110 

 900 

 920 

 1,930 

 1,600 

 1,435 

 1,270 



2nd Plot. 



Tons. Lbs. 



26 

 24 

 18 

 16 

 20 

 19 

 17 

 17 



965 

 1,665 



135 

 1,990 

 1,085 



115 

 1,970 



9fc0 



2nd Plot. 



Bush. Lbs. 



882 

 827 

 602 

 566 

 684 

 635 

 599 

 583 



45 

 45 

 15 

 30 

 45 

 15 

 30 



EXPERIMENTS WITH CARROTS. 



Five varieties of carrots were sown on a sandy loam which had had a clover stubble 

 turned under in the summer of 1909, and about twelve wagon-loads of barn-yard manuie 

 per acre scattered and worked into the soil in the autumn. It was then repeatedly 

 harrowed to destroy the weed seeds. The land was disced and harrowed early in the 

 spring of 1910, and was in good condition when the seed was sown, but the weather 

 just then was dry with a north wind, the surface of the field became dry and the seed 

 was slow in germinating; one variety did not germinate at all and in no case was the 

 stand at all uniform. 



Two sowings were made, the first on May 4 and the second on May 18, in drills 

 two feet apart, and the plants were thinned to four or five inches apart in the row, 

 where necessary. The carrots were all pulled on October 21 and the yield was calcu- 

 lated from the product of two rows, each sixty-six feet long. 



Carrots — Test of Varieties. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH SUGAR BEETS. 



Three varieties of sugar beets were sown in drills two feet apart. Two sowings 

 were made of each variety, the first on May 4, and the second on May 18. The soil 

 was a warm loam which had been manured the previous year and fall-ploughed. It 

 was cultivated with the disc and spike-toothed drag in March and at intervals until 

 the seed was sown. 



Owing to unfavourable weather in the spring, the seed did not germinate evenly, 

 the stand was uneven, and the yield was light. Eour rows of each variety were sown 



