1889.-] PUBLIC DOCUMENT— No. 4. 547 



The land consisted of a good loam in a fair condition of 

 fertilization. It has been manured for several years past, 

 annually, with a mixture consisting of six hundred pounds 

 of fine-ground bone and two hundred pounds of muriate of 

 potash per acre. The seeds, ten varieties in all, were sown 

 May 25. Each variety occupied two rows across the field, 

 of equal length (eighty feet). 



No. 1. Beet, Mangel Wurzel, " Giant Long Red." 



2. Beet, Mangel Wurzel, "Yellow Ovoid." 



3. Beet, " Eclipse." 



4. Beet, "Red Globe." 



6. Beet, " Egyptian Turnip." 



6. Beet, " Long Smooth Red." 



7. Beet, " Saxony " Sugar Beet. 



8. Turnip, Ruta-baga, " White Sweet German." 



9. Turnip, " Early Yellow," or " Golden Stone." 

 10. Turnip, Ruta-baga, " Skirving's Purple Top." 



The rows were three feet three inches apart. The young 

 plants were in every case thinned out or transplanted, as 

 circumstances advised, to about eight inches distant from 

 each other in the rows. 



The transplanting and thinning out took place between 

 July 5 and 11 ; the weather during this time was favorable 

 for transplanting. The seeds of Nos. 6 and 9 did not prove 

 as good as the others ; the young plants of Nos. 5 and 9, in 

 particular, did not do as well after transplanting as the re- 

 mainder. 



The crop was harvested between October 31 and November 

 2. The roots, after being removed from the ground, were 

 topped, and three of each kind were taken to the laboratory 

 for a chemical examination, while three of an approximately 

 corresponding size were photographed. 



The three sample roots selected in each case represented, 

 as far as practicable, the smallest, medium and largest of 

 each variety raised. 



The specimens selected for our fodder analyses were kept 

 in the cellar, slightly covered with moist earth, until wanted 

 for the chemical examination. 



The photographs were taken in every case with the roots 

 at an equal distance from the camera. (See illustrations, 

 pages 148-150, in our last annual report.) 



