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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



4 GEORGE V., A. 1914 



TURNIPS (INCLUDING SWEDES). 



Date of sowing, May 25. Date of pulling, October 23 and 24. Distance between 

 the plants in the rows, 7 inches. 



Turnips. — Test of Varieties. 



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Name of Variety. 



Hall's Westbury 



Selected Purple Top Westbury. 



Magnum Bonum 



Hartley's Bronze Top 



Halevvood's Bronze Top 



Perfection 



Good Luck 



Jumbo 



Elephant 



Mammoth Clyde ... 



2195 Bangholm 



Bangholm , 



Skirvmg's 



Kangaroo 



2196 Tankard 



2197 Funen Bortfelder. 



Best of All 



Carter's Elephant 



Carter's Prize Winner. 



Average. 



33 



144 



1102 



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Early in the season the young plants were attacked to quite an extent by cut- 

 worms. It is estimated tha-t, with the plants growing about seven inches apart In 

 the rows, about fifteen per cent were eaten by cutworms. The gaps in the rows thus 

 established were re-sown immediately after the damage was observed, but, in spite 

 of all care taken, the result of the attack of the cutworms was that the crop became 

 somewhat uneven. It must be mentioned that, as soon as the first sign of the 

 presence of cutworms was discovered, the experimental field was sprinkled with bran, 

 treated with Paris green. This, no doubt, prevented the experiments from being more 

 seriously affected. 



The results of the tests were more seriously influenced by club-root disease, 

 which appeared in practically all varieties. It is hoped, however, that this disease 

 in following years will be checked by the liberal application of lime (at a rate of 

 two tons to the acre) which was given to the infested field in the fall after the root 

 crop had been harvested, and early in the spring of 1913. 



