FARM DEPARTMENT. 



Table 5.— Roots. Yield. 



229 



Name of Variety. 



-a 





Carrots : 



White Belgian.. 



Danvers 



Short Horn 



Long Orange 



Sugar Beets : 



Vilmorin's 



Lane's Improved 



Mangels : 



Kniver's New Mangel 



New Red Fleshed 



Golden Tankard 



Rutabagas : 



Skirvings 



American 



Yellow Swede 



White Russian - 



Oct. 24 



Oct. 25... 



Oct. 26. 



3 

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C. 



381 

 260 + 

 260 

 372 



436 

 504 



510 

 470 

 604 



533 

 547 

 525 

 516 



In the experiment with different kinds of fertilizers the conditions were 

 the same throughout. The fertilizers were applied on the rows, after the 

 seed was sown, and raked into the soil. 



The plat where the mixture of salt, plaster and ashes was applied, gives a 

 slight increase in yield over the other fertilized plats, but not over the plat 

 where no special fertilizer was used. The salt and mixture proved too 

 strong for the young plants. They would no doubt have given better results 

 had they been thoroughly worked into the soil before sowing the seed. The 

 ashes alone gave better results than Mapes' Fertilizer. 



The ground on which the roots were grown was a sandy loam. It received 

 a heavy dressing of barn-yard manure, and was in good mellow condition. 

 The seed was sown in drills three feet apart. Cultivation was with the 

 "Iron Age" five-tooth cultivator and by hand hoeing. We thin the plants 

 from eight to twelve inches apart in the row. While we do not think the 

 average farmer, with dear labor,; can afford to raise a large acreage of roots, 

 we do hold to the opinion that a small area devoted to this crop will prove 

 of great advantage in the feeding of stock. 



Young animals are always more or less fastidious, requiring a frequent 

 change in their rations to insure the best results. A few roots will prove 

 beneficial. There is no stock that will not appreciate them. 



