400 



Tlie Wohurn Field Experiments, 1911. 



In consequence of the ro^YS 1)eing much closer together 

 than would have been the case with mangolds, it was necessarj' 

 to do all the hoeing by hand. It was hard to draw, from the 

 appearance of the plants as they were in the field, any definite 

 conclusions as to the superiority of one variety over the other, 

 or of any particular Avay of planting. 



The crop was raised early in November, special implements, 

 obtained from Holland, being employed for the purpose. These 

 were found to work very well. The roots were topped and 

 tailed in the field, then thrown into carts and weighed, in just 

 the same Avay as mangolds would lie. A portion of each lot 

 was subsequently washed and re-Aveighed in order to see what 

 the produce of the cleaned roots, as received by a factory, 

 Avould l)e. Careful details Avere kept of the cost of hoeing, 

 singling, lifting, &c., in order to institute a comparison with 

 mangold-growing. 



After the Aveighing of the crop, samples of the roots were 

 analysed. Table VI. gives the details obtained. 



{h) Road Piece Field. Heavier Land. 



In this case only one variety of sugar-beet, namely, " Klein 

 Wanzleben Z," Avas groAvn, l)ut at the three distances apart, 

 namely, 12, 15, and 18 in., that Avere adopted in Stackyard Field. 



Side by side Avith sugar-beet Avas groAvn a plot of " YelloAv 

 Globe " mangolds, the seed being drilled in roAvs 24 in. apart. 

 Dung was spread April 5-17, and the mangold seed AA-^as drilled 

 April 15-17, the drilling of sugar-beet folloAving on May 5, 



The mangold and also the sugar-beet came up very Avell, 

 and the crops Avere much larger than in Stackyard Field, the 

 land being heavier and more suitable for root-groAving. 



