305 
Fmger-aml-Toe^^  in  Turnips. 
plot  5 oil  December  20,  1902 ; carbolised  lime  (2  tons  per  acre) 
to  plot  71),  and  finely-divided  lime  (2  tons  per  acre)  to  plot  7a 
on  December  31.  Farmyard  manure  (at  the  rate  of  12  toils'^ 
to  the  acre)  was  applied- to  each  plot  on  April  11,  1903,  and 
ploughed  in.  Swede  seed  (4  lb.  per  acre)  was  drilled  on  June 
24,  basic  superphosphate  (5  cwt.  per  acre)  being  applied  to 
plot  1,  and  lime  (2  tons  to  the  acre)  to  plot  G at  the  same  time. 
The  swedes  were  ready  for  pulling  on  November  17,  and  were 
shortlj’  afterwards  taken  up,  weighed,  and  sorted  into  sound 
and  unsound  lots,  as  usual. 
The  weights  are  given  in  Table  XIII.,  below. 
Table  XIII. — “ Finger-and-Toe  ” Experiments  on  Swedes 
{Great  Hill),  1903. 
Produce  per  acre. 
Plot 
.Applications  per  acre 
Sound  roots 
Usable 
roots 
Unsound 
roots 
Total  weight 
of  roots  per 
acre 
T. 
c.  q. 
lb. 
T. 
c. 
q- 
lb. 
C.  q.  lb. 
T. 
c. 
q. 
lb. 
1 
Basic  superphos- 
phate,  5 cwt. 
2 
2 3 
0 
1 
0 
2 
8 
2 2 20 
3 
6 
0 
0 
2 
Lime.  2 tons  . 
3 
6 3 
0 
0 
0 
3 
24 
— 
3 
7 
2 
24 
3 
Nothing. 
No  roots 
at  all 
4 
Gas  lime,  2 tons 
1 
2 2 
0 
0 
6 
2 
16 
0 1 20 
1 
9 
2 
8 
5 
Basic  slag,  10  cwt. . 
0 
4 
1 
4 
0 3 0 
0 
5 
0 
4 
6 
Lime,  2 tons,  drilled 
in  with  seed 
0 
1 0 
8 
0 
8 
1 
0 
— 
0 
9 
1 
8 
7a 
Finely-divided  lime 
8 
3 2 
0 
0 
0 
3 
12 
— 
8 
4 
1 
12 
7 b 
Carbolised  lime 
3 2 
0 
0 
1 
1 
4 
— 
5 
4 
3 
4 
Lime,  when  applied  early,  either  in  the  rough  state  (plot  2), 
as  finely-divided  lime  (plot  7a),  or  as  carbolised  lime  (plot  7b), 
produced  crops  of  nice  quality  and  almost  free  from  disease ; 
the  crop  from  finely-divided  lime  being  much  the  heaviest.  Gas 
lime,  on  the  contrarj-,  only  did  moderately  well,  and  basic  slag 
seems  to  have  entirely  lost  its  efficacy  in  checking  disease. 
On  the  “nothing”  plot  there  was  absolutely  not  a single  root 
that  survived,  the  land  being  so  much  infected  with  disease, 
and  it  is  to  this  cause,  too,  that  is  to  be  attributed,  in  all 
likelihood,  the  failure,  in  this  its  first  year,  of  lime  when 
drilled  in  with  the  seed  (plot  G).  This  plot  had  formerly  been 
a “no  treatment”  plot,  and  no  doubt  the  lime  had  not  hail 
time  to  work.  Basic  superphosphate  (plot  1)  gave  a total  crop 
nearly  eipial  to  that  of  ordinary  lime.  The  number  of  sound 
roots  on  this  plot  was,  however,  less,  and,  as  has  been  already 
mentioned,  the  present  is  the  first  year  of  treatment  of  this 
particidar  piece  of  ground. 
VOL.  6.5. 
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