REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Increase in Crop of Turnips from early Solving, also from Late Pulling. 



The results given point to the advantage of early sowing. The average yield of 

 turnips from all the varieties from the first sowing and first pulling has exceeded that 

 from the second sowing by 6 tons, 1,838 pounds per acre, and in the case of the second 

 pulling made fourteen days later, the larger weight from the earlier sowing is well 

 maintained, the difference being 6 tons, 515 pounds per acre in favour of early sowing. 



The figures given also show that the fourteen days of additional time given to the 

 roots to grow between October 14 and 28, resulted in an average increase in weight in 

 the early sown plots of 1 ton 492 pounds per acre, while those later sown increased in 

 weight during the same period 1 ton 1,799 pounds per acre. 



SELECT LIST OF VARIETIES OF TURXIPS. 



In this list is given the average yield per acre obtained during the past three to 

 seven years from the more productive varieties of turnips grown at all the experimental 

 farms, with the length of time they have been under test. Only those sorts are in-, 

 eluded which have been three years or longer under trial. 



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Names of Varieties. 



Number of 



Years 

 under trial. 



Selected Purple Top 



Perfection Swede 



Imperial Swede 



Halewood's Bronze Top. 



Hall's Westbury 



Hartley's Bronze 



Bangholm Selected 



Webb's Renown 



East Lothian 



Shamrock Purple Top . . . 



Carter's Elephant 



Prize Winner 



Skirvings 



Drummond Purple Top . . 



Jumbo 



Prize Pur pl« i Top 



Mammoth Clyde 



Monarch 



New Arctic 



Sutton's Champion 



Giant King 



West Norfolk Jled Top. . 

 Champion Purple Top. . . 

 Marquis of Lome 



Average Yield 



per acre at all the 



Experimental 



Farms. 



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 6 

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 5 

 5 

 7 

 5 

 3 

 7 

 5 



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 7 

 4 

 7 

 7 

 6 

 3 

 3 

 6 



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7 

 6 



31 

 31 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 29 

 29 

 29 

 29 

 28 

 28 

 28 

 28 

 28 

 28 

 28 

 28 

 27 

 27 

 27 

 27 

 27 

 27 

 26 



206 



202 



1,948 



783 



579 



1,700 



1,648 



296 



174 



1,698 



1,206 



1,119 



1,096 



904 



704 



610 



549 



1,608 



1,434 



1,280 



820 



502 



130 



1,337 



EXPERIMENTS WITH MANGELS. 



Twenty-five varieties of mangels were under trial in 1901. These were all sown, 

 side by side, adjoining the turnips ; the land was similar in character and its treatment 

 and preparation was the same. The drills were made up two feet apart and rolled with 

 a heavy land roller to make a firm bed before the seed was sown. 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 the weight of roots 

 gathered from one row 66 feet long. 



