for the Turnip Crop. 
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the Turnip Crop, on a liglit grey sandy soil with a yellow sandy 
and pxiblished at the request of the Tamworth Agricultural 
Association. 
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Phosphoric Acid, 
soluble, per Acre. 
Phosphoric Acid, 
iiisuluble, per acre. 
Weight of 
Turnips 
per Acre, 
23rd Nov. 
1.^53. 
When 
sown. 
Observations. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
G5i 
lbs. 
lbs. 
126 
tons cwt. qrs. 
18 17 3 
Aug. 6, growing slowly. Much injured by chick- 
weed. 
2U 
8i 
5U 
801 
24 !') I 
beep. 
.\ug. 6, growing very fast. Sept. 16, the best plot, 
but injured by chickweed. 
28 
8G 
3TJ 
23 6 3 
eaten off by S! 
Aug. 6, growing fast. Sept. 16, good, and grow ing 
fast. Second-best plot. 
5() 
43 
11} 
74} 
22 12 1 
after Tares 
Aug. 6, growing very slowly. Sept. 16, good, and 
growing very fast. Fourth-best plot. 
19 
Ti 
45i 
72 
24 9 2 
3 
Aug. 6, crowing fast. Sept. 15, equal to plot No. 7. 
Tnird-best plot. 
111 
40 
22 
21 13 3 
1 to 7, sown Ji 
Aug. 6, growing fast. Sept. 16, Middling. Worst, 
except No. 1. 
28 
54i 
5i 
lOO-i 
23 7 2 
6 
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Aug. 6, growing fast. Sept. 16, equal to plot 5. 
Third-best. 
28 
96 
5i 
37t 
24 18 1 
.0, sown ,TuIy 1st, 1853, 
er Kye eaten off. 
Aug. 6, growing fast. Sept. 16, growing slowly; 
the least weight of turnips, but better quality 
than plots 9 and 10. 
2S 
5i 
100} 
25 16 1 
Aug. 6, growing very fast. Sept. 16, second-best ; 
but a great many rotten turnips. 
56 
43 
Ui 
74} 
26 5 1 
No. 8 to 1 
aft 
Aug 6, growing slowly. Sept. 16, the best plot ; 
but many rotten. 
moaia, as directed at p. 220 in Haywood's Letters to Fanners; but the time 
would not allow of this being done. 
:i\ lbs. of soluble Phosphoric Acid can be obtained by mixing 245 lbs. of 
ordinary bones with 100 lbs. of common Sulphuric Acid ; and 21 lbs. of free 
Ammonia by adding to it 95 lbs. of Sulphate of Ammonia. 
The Turnips were inspected, weighed, and reported on, by Mr. Edward 
Farmer and Mr. Farmer Cheatle. 
The quantities of Ammonia and Phosphates, and the general result of the 
experiments, as stated above, were given by Mr. James Haywood, of Sheffield, 
the late lamented Lecturer and Analyst to the Society. 
Thomas Argyle, Secretary. 
