REPORT OF MR. S. A. BEDFORD 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Turnips — Test of Varieties. 



415 



Name of Variety. 



Hall's Westbury 



Hartley's Bronze 



Prize Winner 



Mammoth Clyde . . 



Prize Purple Top 



New Arctic 



Sutton's Champion 



Magnum Bonum 



Imperial Swede 



Kar. garoo 



Elephant's Master 



East Lothian ... 



Carter's Elephant 



Perfection Swede 



Bangholm Selected 



Skirving's 



Shamrock Purple Top. . . . 



Jumbo 



Halewood's Bronze Top. . . 



Monarch 



Giant King 



West Norfolk Red Top. . . 



Marquis of Lome 



Drummond Purple Top. . . 



Selected Purple Top 



Selected Champion 



Emperor 



Champion Purple Top . . . 

 Webb's New Renown 



Yield 

 Per Acre. 



2nd Plot. 



Tons. Lbs. Bush. Lbs 



Yield 

 Per Acre. 



2nd Plot. 



16 

 15 

 17 

 15 

 14 

 11 

 13 

 12 

 14 



9 

 10 

 12 



9 

 16 

 13 

 14 

 15 



8 

 13 

 13 



7 

 11 

 11 



6 

 11 

 12 

 12 

 13 

 rot. 



1,792 

 1,680 



320 



360 

 1,040 

 1,760 



400 

 1,872 



776 

 1,536 



328 



552 

 1,800 

 1,264 

 1,984 

 1,040 

 1,944 

 1,160 

 1,720 



400 

 1,312 

 1,760 



176 

 1,200 



176 

 1,872 

 1,080 

 1,984 



563 12 



528 .. 



572 . . 



506 .. 



484 .. 



396 .. 



440 .. 



431 12 



479 36 



325 36 



338 48 



409 12 



330 . . 



554 24 



466 24 



484 .. 



532 24 



286 .. 



462 .. 



440 .. 



255 12 



396 .. 



369 36 



220 .. 



369 36 



431 12 



418 . . 



466 24 



EXPERIMENTS WITH MANGELS. 



Twenty-five varieties of mangels were tested this year, and the yield was slightly 

 above the average. 



The seed of some of the varieties was washed out by a heavy rain, soon after 

 sowing, leaving large vacancies in the rows. This accounts for the small return given 

 by the last ten or twelve varieties. The soil on which the mangels were sown was a 

 sandy loam, manured in 1899 and summer-fallowed last year. 



Two sowings were made of each variety, the first on May 16, and the second on 

 May 30, and the roots from both were pulled on September 24. The seed was sown in 

 drills thirty inches apart, and the yield has been calculated from the weight of roots 

 gathered from two rows each 66 feet long. 



With four exceptions, the early sown plots gave the largest returns. 



