most suitable to the Turnip Crop. 49 
four farms were visited, of which twenty-nine were in the 
hands of tenant farmers. The mode adopted was by taking 
the weight of turnips grown in ten lineal yards in different 
parts of the field, selected as affording an average of the 
different shapes of bulbs: the tops and roots were cut off 
before weighing. 
The Table which gives the details of each experiment is 
too long to insert here; but the following may be taken as 
a description of the particulars noted, and of the average 
results. 
The first column gives the names of the farms and the spe- 
cies of turnip grown; the next, the distance between the 
drills; the next, the number of turnips in ten yards, from 
which of course we obtain the distance between the plants in 
the drills; the next gives the weight of the crop per acre; and 
the next four describe the character and amount of manure 
. used, either of farm-yard dung, guano, dissolved bones, or 
ground bones: the date of sowing is given in several instances 
in the column of remarks. 
The average results may be stated as follows :— 
Of Swedes, the average crop was 21 tons 16 cwt. to the acre. 
Of Yellow Turnips, 20 tons 2 ewt. to the acre. 
Of White Turnips, 22 tons 7 cwt. to the acre. 
The opinion of the Club, as expressed by the majority of 
the members on several points connected with the cultivation 
of this crop, may be briefly stated as follows :— 
Ist. Time of Sowing.—Early sowing is decidedly advan- 
tageous. Swedes sown before the middle of May yield seve- 
ral tons beyond those sown about the Ist of June; and the 
same holds good as regards Yellows. It would be desirable, 
therefore, always to sow a large portion of Swedes and some 
Whites in May: the latter will then be available for cattle at 
the end of September, or the beginning of October. 
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