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STATE AGEICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
we are indebted to the report of the Department of Agriculture 
for 1868 : 
Experiments'in Turnip Culture.— The prominence of root culture in the 
agricultural system of Great Britain is well known, though the value of the 
product and the quantity obtained per acre by good culture in a favoring cli¬ 
mate are not fully understood. In the transactions of the Highland Agri¬ 
cultural Society of Scotland for 1868, is published a report of experiments 
made by Mr. Henry Shaw, with different varieties of turnips. Upon this re¬ 
sult a gold medal was awarded to him by the society. The field on which 
the experiments were made had a southern exposure, about seven hundred 
feet above the sea level, its soil being a light loam, dark in color, especially 
adapted to grass and turnips; the subsoil, a strong, brownish clay. The land 
had been subjected to a six-course rotation ; one year in mowing, three in 
pasture, followed the fifth year by oats, and the next year by turnips. Six¬ 
teen varieties of turnips were sown in plots measuring one-eighth of an acre 
each. Each of these allotments was manured with two and a half cubic yards of 
farm-yard dung and twenty-eight pounds of dissolved bone ; excepting the 
spot sown with Swedes, whereon this quantity of dissolved bone was doubled, 
the amount of dung being the same. The product per imperial acre is given 
in the accompanying table, fractions of hundred-weights not reported: 
Kind. 
Product. 
white turnips. 
Tons. Cwt. 
Common White Globe. 
Tankard Globe. 
Pomeranian Whire Globe. 
Graystone Globe. 
Eet-top Globe. 
YELLOW TURNIPS. 
Early Bullock Yellow. 
Aberdeen Bullock Yellow..”. 
Dale’s Hybrid Yellow. 
Old Meldrum Yellow. 
Tweeddale Purple-top Yellow. 
Aberdeen Purple-top Yellow. 
SWEDES. 
Bangholme Swede. 
Bronze or Kinaldie’s Swede... 
Shepherd’s Swede. 
Skirving’s Improved Swede.. „ 
Skirving’s King of the Swedes 
25 16 
24 10 
26 00 
25 19 
25 4 
23 16 
23 2 
22 6 
24 3 
21 2 
21 16 
19 18 
19 14 
21 1 
20 6 
19 15 
Mr. John Milne also received a gold medal from the Highland society for 
experiments made during three c-nsecutlve year.® on a farm in Aberdeen- 
