HE PORT 0F MR. P.. ROBERTSON 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Turnips — Test of Varieties. 



347 



Name of Variety. 



Hartley's Bronze 



( barter's Elephant 



New Arctic 



Imperial Swede 



Perfection Swede 



Mammoth Clyde 



Jumbo 



Selected Champion 



Bangholm Selected 



Oiant King 1 



Prize Purple Top 



Selected Purple Top 



Halewood's Bronze Tup. 



Kangaroo 



Marquis of Lome 



Monarch 



Shamrock Purple Top. . . 

 Webb's New Renown. . 



Hall's Westbury 



East Lothian 



.Emperor Swede 



West Norfolk Red Top . 



Elephant's Master 



Skirvings 



Drummond Purple Top. 

 Champion Purple Top... 



Magnum Bonum 



Sutton's Champion 



Prize Winner 



1st plot 

 sown. 



•2nd plot 

 sown. 



May 



27. 

 27. 

 27. 

 27. 

 27. 

 27. 

 27. 

 27. 

 27. 

 27. 

 27. 

 27. 

 27. 

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 27. 

 27. 

 27. 



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27. 

 27. 

 27. 

 27. 

 27. 

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 27. 

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 27. 

 27. 



June 10. 



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1st plot 

 pulled. 



Oct. 



30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 

 30. 



Yield 

 per acre. 

 1st plot. 



Tons lbs. 



44 

 42 

 41 

 40 

 37 

 37 

 37 

 3G 

 35 

 35 

 34 

 34 

 33 

 33 

 33 

 33 

 33 

 33 

 31 

 31 

 31 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 29 

 28 

 28 

 28 

 28 



1,100 



150 



500 



850 



1,900 



1,075 



250 



1,425 



950 



950 



475 



475 



1,650 



1.G50 



1,650 



1,650 



1,650 



1,525 



700 



700 

 1,875 

 1,875 



225 

 1,400 

 1,750 

 1,750 

 1,750 



7U0 



Yield 

 per acre. 

 1st plot. 



Bush. lbs. 



1,485 .. 



1,402 30 



1,375 



1,347 



1,265 



1,251 



1,237 



1,223 



1,183 



1,183 



1,141 



1,141 



1,127 



1,127 



1,127 



1,127 



1,127 



1,100 



1,058 



1,045 



1,045 



1,031 



1,031 



1,003 



990 



962 



962 



962 



935 



30 



is 



30 

 45 

 30 

 30 

 15 

 15 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 30 



45 



15 

 15 

 45 



30 

 30 

 30 



Yield 

 per acre. 

 2nd plot. 



Tons lbs. Bush, lbs 



Yield 

 per acre. 

 2nd ploc. 



28 

 23 

 32 

 25 

 30 

 24 

 26 

 30 

 24 

 22 

 28 

 24 

 26 

 24 

 25 

 24 

 28 

 26 

 25 

 22 

 29 

 29 

 20 

 22 

 26 

 18 

 19 

 21 

 20 



925 



200 



350 



325 



1,875 



1,500 



800 



225 



1,500 



550 



1,750 



1,500 



800 



1,500 



1,975 



675 



1,758 



1,625 



1,150 



1,375 



1,400 



1,400 



1,250 



1,375 



1.625 



1,125 



1,600 



75 



1,250 



948 

 770 



1,072 

 838 



1031 

 825 

 880 



1,003 

 S25 

 742 

 962 

 825 

 880 

 825 

 866 

 811 

 962 

 893 

 852 

 756 

 990 

 990 

 687 

 756 

 893 

 618 

 660 

 701 

 687 



io 



30 

 45 

 15 



15 



30 



30 

 30 



15 

 15 

 30 

 45 

 30 

 15 



30 

 15 

 45 

 45 



15 

 30 



EXPERIMENTS WITH MAXGELS. 



Twenty-five varieties of mangels were sown May 27, and duplicate plots two weeks 

 later, June 10. The land on which these were grown was previously in clover, the 

 aftermath of which was ploughed under in the fall of 1900. This land was a clay loam 

 and was in a good state of fertility. Twenty one-horse cart loads of stable manure 

 was applied broadcast this spring, after the ground had been gone over once with the 

 disc harrow. The manure was then ploughed under, and after the springtooth harrow 

 Lad gone over it the disc was again used. The smoothing harrow was also run over it, 

 after which complete fertilizer at the rate of 200 pounds per acre was sown broadcast, 

 and worked in with the smoothing harrow. The land was then run into drills 24 inches 

 apart. The rows were raked off and the seed sown in holes one foot apart, made with 

 a marker, and from three to six seeds dropped in a place. These were covered by hand 

 with a garden rake. 



The plants came up very irregularly, particularly this was the case with the first 

 sown plots. This may have been the fault of the seed to some extent, but more likely 

 on account of the cold wet weather, which continued for some time after they were 



sown. 



The roots from both series of plots were pulled October 30, and the following 

 yield per acre was calculated from two rows, each GG feet long. 



