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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



1-2 EDWARD VII., A. T902 

 EXPERIMENTS WITH TITKNIPS. 



Twenty-nine varieties of turnips were on trial during the past season, all sown 

 side by side on similar land. The soil was a clay loam of good quality, more or less 

 mixed with sandy loam. The previous crop was experimental plots of wheat and bar- 

 ley. The land was ploughed early in the autumn of 1900 about eight inches deep. 

 During the winter of 1900-1 this land received a dressing of about 12 tons of fresh 

 barn-yard manure per acre, which was placed on the frozen ground in small piles of 

 about a third of a cart-load each to prevent fermentation. This was spread in the 

 spring, ploughed under about six inches deep, and harrowed with the smoothing har- 

 row. The land was then made up in drills two feet apart, and rolled with a heavy 

 land roller, which flattened the drills nearly one-half, leaving a firm seed bed. The 

 seed was sown at the rate of three pounds per acre. Two sowings were made of each 

 sort, the first on May 8, the second on May 22. They were also pulled on two different 

 dates. The first pulling was on October 14, and the second on October 28. The yield 

 per acre has been calculated in each case from tbe weight of roots gathered from one 

 row 66 feet in length. 



TURNIPS — TEST OF VARIETIES. 



fc 



Name of Variety. 



lj Carter's Elephant 



2 Hartley's Bronze 



3 Drummond Purple Top . 



4 Halewood's Bronze Top. 



5 Hall's Westbury 



6 Sutton's Champion 



7 Bangholm Selected. 



8 Emperor Swede 



9 Champion Purple Top. . , 



10 Prize Purple Top 



11 Magnum Bonum 



12 Marquis of Lome 



13 New Arctic 



14 Selected Purple Top 



15 Skirvings 



16 West Norfolk Red Top. . 



17 Imperial Swede 



18 Selected Champion 



19 Shamrock Purple Top . .- . 



20 Elephant's Master 



21 Giant King 



22 Prize Winner 



23 East Lothian 



24 Perfection Swede 



25 Kangaroo 



20 Monarch 



27 Mammoth Clyde 



28 Jumbo 



29 Webb's New Renown . . . 



Yield 



per acre from 



1st Sowing 



1st Pulling 



October 14. 



Yield 



per acre from 



2nd Sowing 



1st Pulling 



October 14. 



Tons. Lbs. 



41 

 41 

 40 

 39 

 37 

 37 

 36 

 36 

 34 

 34 

 33 

 33 

 33 

 33 

 32 

 32 

 32 

 32 

 32 

 31 

 31 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 27 

 25 

 24 

 23 

 16 



1,820 

 1,490 



520 

 1,530 

 1,240 

 1,240 

 1,590 



270 

 1,300 



310 

 1,650 

 1,320 



990 



330 

 1,340 

 1,340 

 1,340 

 1,010 

 20 

 1,690 

 1,360 

 1,380 



720 

 60 



120 



490 



180 

 1,850 



670 



Tons. Lbs. 



29 

 29 

 28 

 28 

 27 

 28 

 25 

 32 

 27 

 23 

 24 

 27 

 21 

 28 

 27 

 26 

 22 

 25 

 26 

 20 

 26 

 26 

 27 

 29 

 22 

 22 

 22 

 20 

 17 



80 



80 



760 



430 



1,110 



1,090 



1,480 



1,670 



450 



1,520 



1,830 



120 



240 



1,750 



1,110 



800 



880 



1,150 



1,790 



1,580 



1,460 



140 



1,440 



1,070 



1,870 



880 



550 



590 



1,970 



Yield 



per acre from 



2nd Sowing 



2nd Pulling 



October 28. 



Tons. (Lbs. 



37 

 30 

 32 

 29 

 32 

 30 

 27 

 24 

 31 

 25 

 32 

 24 

 29 

 23 

 21 

 21 

 28 

 24 

 24 

 28 

 30 

 24 

 30 

 26 

 26 

 21 

 30 

 25 



910 



1,380 



680 



1,730 



1,670 



60 



450 



840 



40 



490 



680 



840 



1,730 



530 



900 



240 



1,420 



510 



1,830 



1,750 



720 



180 



1,050 



1,130 



800 



900 



720 



490 



All rotten. 



Tons. Lbs. 



The average from the 1st sowing, 1st pulling was. ..... 32 1,420 



The average from the 2nd sowing, 1st pulling was 25 1,582 



The average from the 1st sowing, 2nd pulling was 33 1,896 



The average from the 2nd sowing, 2nd pulling was 27 1,381 



