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deciding consideration in good farming as to the extent to which 

 artificials should replace farmyard manure, will be the extent to 

 which the swedes will be consumed by sheep on the land where 

 grown. If all are to be thus disposed of, as is frequently the case 

 on light land, the crop may be grown entirely with artificials; if 

 half the crop only is to be eaten on the ground, then half the 

 dung of Plot 5 and half the artificials of Plot 3 or 4 would be 

 good management. And if all the roots are to be carted off, then 

 the full dressing of dung assisted by a small artificial dressing as 

 with Plot 6 should be applied ; so as to leave the land in good con- 

 dition for the corn and seed-grass crops which are to follow. " 



Varieties of Mangolds. (Midland Agric. and Dairy College, Bull. 3, 

 1909-1910). Journal of the Board of Agriculture, p. 145, 

 London, 1910. 



The following table shows the relative value of three varieties 

 of mangolds. 



Variety Yield in tons per acre. Dry matter Ibs. per acre 



Prizewinner 31 ton 8 Ib. 5546 



Windsor-Globe 29 5436 



Golden Tankard. .... 20 4579 



Manuring of mangolds and swedes. [Results of Field Manurial 

 Demonstration by Wiltshire County Council, 1908-9]. The 

 Journal of the Board of Agriculture. June 1910. Vol. XVII, 

 n. 3, p. 231. 



" Six experiments on the manuring of mangolds and six on the 

 manuring of swedes were carried out at different centres in the 

 county. " 



" The schemes on which these demonstrations were carried out 

 received the general approval of the Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries, and were largely based on the schemes submitted to the 

 Board by the Agricultural Education Association. They appear to 

 have been very carefully carried out, and this report gives the 

 results obtained at each centre, together with full particulars as to 

 the soil, weather, and previous cropping." 



"In the case both of the mangold and the swede experiments, 

 there were eight plots at each centre, the area of each plot being 

 eight perches. One plot received no artificial manure; one plot 



