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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



FERTILIZERS USED ON THE FIELD GRAIN. 



The field oats were fertilized with 8 barrels of soft wood ashes and 1 barrel of com- 

 plete fertilizer per acre. The grain fields were at the same time seeded to clover and it 

 was noticed that the fields in which wood ashes were used gave the best crop of clover, 

 aa well as an apparent better crop of oats. 



Part of the land used for buckwheat was fertilized with 8 barrels of soft wood 

 ashes per acre. This was sown broadcast and harrowed in, and the other part with 250 

 pounds of mixed fertilizer (125 pounds bone meal and 125 pounds of complete fertilizer) 

 per acre. The part on which the wood ashes were sown made the best growth and gave 

 apparently the best yield. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH TURNIPS. 



Eighteen varieties of turnips were used in this experiment. The land was a sandy 

 loam, the previous crop was potatoes. The land was ploughed in the fall. 



Thirty 20- bushel cart loads of barn-yard manure, and 100 pounds of complete fer- 

 tilizer were used per acre. After the rows were run up for seeding a small drill was 

 made by hand into which the fertilizer was also sown by hand, the seed was then sown 

 and covered. All the seed sowing is done by hand for the root plots. 



Two sowings were made of each variety. The first set of plots were sown 4th 

 June, the second two weeks later, 18th June. The yield of all the root plots per acre has 

 been calculated from the quantity obtained from two rows each 66 feet long and 26 

 inches apart. The following results were obtained : — 



Turnips. — Test of Varieties. 



Name of Variety. 



Shamrock Purple Top. . 

 Hale wood's Bronze Top 



Hartley's Bronze 



Perfection Swede 



Skirving's 



East Lothian 



Selected Purple Top . . . 



Bangholm Selected 



Selected Champion 



Carter's Elephant 



Marquis of Lome 



Prize Purple Top 



Mammoth Clyde ..... 

 Sutton's Champion . . . 



Hall's Westbury 



Prize Winner 



Jumbo or Monarch 



Giant King . . 



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