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report of the Bureau of Industries, we learn that from 1882 to 1902 

 an annual average area of 31,993 acres was used for the growings of 

 mangels. In 1893 there were only 21,519, in 189,1. 27,670, and in 

 1895, 34,383 acres. From that time forward there has been a gradual 

 increase in the acreage of mangels up to 1903, when no less than 

 ^0,918 acres were used for this important crop in Ontario. In 1904, 

 however, the acreage dropped to 71,344 acres, owing, no doubt, to the 

 unfavorable weather at that time in the spring when the farmers were 

 ready to sow their mangel crop. The averap-e yield of mangels per 

 acre for Ontario for the past twenty-three years has been 459 bushels, 

 or about 13.8 tons. 



Varieties. Twenty-three varieties of mangels have been care- 

 fully tested in our experimental grounds for five years in succession. 

 The seeding has usually taken place near the first of Mav. There have 

 been three rows of each variety, each row being four rods in length. 

 Three and a third links (26 2-5 inches) were allowed between the rows, 

 and ten inches between the mangels in the rows. The same distance 

 was allowed between *'->*=> different varieties as between the rows of 

 the same variety. Level cultivation was practised throu"-hout. The 

 average results for the five years in yield of tops and in vield of roots 

 per acre as follows : 



Varieties. 



1. Yellow Leviathan 



2. Mammoth Golden Giant 



3. Sutton's Mammoth Long Red 



4. Oblong Giant Yellow or Giant Yellow 



Inter 



5. Steele, Briggs Giant Yellow Inter 



6. Carter's Mammoth Prize Long Red .... 



7. ETans' Improved Mammoth Sawlog.. 



8. Norbitan Giant 



9. Simmers' Improved Mammoth Long 



Red 



10. Steele's Long Red Selected 



11. Cornish Giant Yellow Globe 



12. English Prijse 



13. Giant Yellow Half Long 



14. Long White 



15. Buckbee's Mastadon 



16. Ronnie's Perfection Mammoth Long 



Red 



17. Carter's Windsor Prize Taker Yellow 



Globe 



18. Daniels' Improved Gate Post 



19. Carter's Elephant Yellow Globe 



20. Taber's Gate Post Yellow Inter 



21. Rivershall Giant Yellow Globe 



22. Red Globe 



25. Mammotli Red Intermediate 



Average results for fiie years. 



The Yellow Leviathan, which stands at the head of the list in yield 

 of roots per acre, is a yellow intermediate variety which has given very 



