Owing to an accident to the manure drill and subsequent wet 

 weather the Mangold field was not sown until May iith and 18th. 

 Partly through the caking of the surface following the long con- 

 tinued use of saline manures on this field, and partly through the 

 attack of some insect, but a scanty and irregular plant started. 

 On some of the plots very few seeds survived, and as it became 

 obvious that the results would bear but little relation to the manures 

 supplied, it was decided to skim over the surface and sow with 

 Swede Turnips, which was done ort July qth and nth. No Swede 

 Turnips had been grown on this land since 1870 ; the value of a 

 change of crop was seen in the exceptional vigour with which the 

 Swede seed germinated and began to grow. Having been sown late 

 and on land receiving such large amounts of nitrogenous manure, 

 the crop ran very much to top ; on several plots the leaf weighed 

 half as much again as the roots when the crop was harvested in 

 November. But the crop was extraordinary in the great uniformity 

 of the growth ; there were no blanks and every plant was clean and 

 vigorous. Even on the plots which receive an excess of nitrogen and 

 are potash starved, where the mangolds are every year attacked by 

 Uromyces betae, the Swede turnip leaves were free from fungoid 

 attack, though they presented a curious flecked appearance, patches 

 of dead tissue being visible near the margins. 



On the Agdell Field the 16th four-course rotation began with 

 a crop of Swede Turnips, sown on the 12th of June. A very regular 

 plant was obtained, which made good growth throughout the season 

 and showed several interesting features, illustrated by the following 

 photograph taken of the entire crop from each plot. 



Plots 6 



