EXPERIMENTS AT LINCOLN COLLEGE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9887, 18 November 1897, Page 2

EXPERIMENTS AT LINCOLN COLLEGE.

•• Weekly Press and Referee." The following are results of some of the experiments carried out during tha year at the Canterbury Agricultural College at Lincoln, under the supervision of Mr J. Bayne, tho director:— DIFFERENT KINDS OF CARROTS SOWN WITH TUB SAME MANCRK. A field broken up ont of grass and winter fallowed was sown An the flat on October 20th with carrots in rows 21 in apart. The seed was sown at the rate of 31b per acre, with a mixture of 2£cwt of manure, consisting of lewt superphosphate, ,owt bone meal, Jcwt kainit, $c\vt blood, together with 600 gallons of water. Results :— Yield Plot. Kind of Carrot. When Dug. per acre. tons. cwt. Ho. 1 White Belgian •. June 28th 31 1 „ 2 Yellow Intermediate „ 33 0 „ 3 R«t Intermediate .. „ „ 29 15 ( , 4 Allrinchatn.. .. ~ -4 15 Remarks.—The two best classes of carrotß in our opinion are the Yollow Intermediate and the Red Intermediate. These turned out the best last year on the College Farm. The White Belgian, though a large cropper, ia very rough in its skin and forked iv its roots. The Yollow and Red Intermediates tire beautiful in shape, smooth skin and have few lateral root*. The Altrincham is a fair croppsr, but tapers to a point too quickly. DIFFERENT MANGELS GROWN WITH THE SAME MANURE. A field was broken up but of grass and winter fallowed. The seed was sown October 21ft, in rows 28in apart, at the rate of 6lb per acre. Manure 2jcwt (consisting of lewt superphosphate, 4 cwt kainit, iewt sulphate of potash, Jcwt salt, _cwt bone meal, and Acwt blood manure, with 600 gallons of water). Tlie plots, nine in number, Merc one acre each. Results :— When Pulled Yield Kind of Mangel. and Weighed, par acre. Plot. ton-, cwt. 1 /-Golden Globe .. June 25th 21 10 2 I Long Red .. „ „ 25 10 3» I Oxhcsrt .. .. „ „ 20 0 4 _ I Client Loi.k Yellow „ „ 22 5 5 3,' Prirc Winner .. „ „ 30 0 6 s I Yellow Intermediate „ „ 2i 10 7 M Golden Tankard 20 0 8 I Crimson Tank-rd.. ,; „ 21 10 9 (.Crimson Tankard , 16 10 Remarks.—Plot No. 9 was sown with lewt superphosphate, lewt muriate of potash, and iewt of kainit, and 600 gallons of water. This mixture had neither blood nor salt in it, und the results wore not so satisfactory as those on the other eight plots. Everything in connection with this plot was the same with tho exception of the manure, which goes to show that the absence of blood and salt (probably the former) was the cause of the diminished yield. TURNIPS AFTER SPRING FED OATS. The turnips were drilled on the 15th December (in 3 acre plots); weighed Ist May, seod, I,lb per aero ; of special fertiliser, per acre, and 500 gallons of water per aore. 1. Devonshire Grey atone .. 22 tons 15 cwt per acre 2. Mammoth I'urpie Top .. 22 „ 5 „ „ 8. White Stone .. 21 „ 10 „ Remarks.—Devonshire Grey Stone and Mammoth Purple Top have genorally turned out best on the College Farm. TURNIPS AFTER GRASS LAND WINTER FALLOWED. These were drilled 12th and 23th January, •nd weighed 6th July, seed 1-Jlbs, and 1_ ewt superphosphate per acre. 1. Imperial Oreen Globe .. 16 tons 10 cwt per aero 2. Fostcrton's Hybrid .. 12 „ 11 „ „ 9. Purplo Top Yellow Aberdeen .. 11 „ 15 „ „ 4. Groan Top Yellow Aberdeen .. .. 11 ~ 10 ~ „ 6. Sutton's Yellow Favourite 12 „ 11 „ „ Remarks'.—Of the five Imperial Green Globe withstood the drought best. VARIOUS EXPERIMENTS ON DIFFERENT ROOTS, &C. The following wore sown on the flat, 21in •part, using at the rate of lilba seed, 2cwt auperphoap-te, and 4QQgal- water per acre :— DtiUed November asth. Weighed June 28lb. L Scotch Kale -\ 2. Purple Broooll I Failure. Hardly any came 5. Jersey Tree Cabbeae V up, and they were very ». Kohl RaW Oreen I stunted. 5. Kohl Rabi Purple J Yield per acre 6. Tait's Best of all Swede .. .. 23 tons 2 cwt 7. Paraxon Purplo Top Swede ..24 „ 14 ~ 8. -kervington. Swede .. .. 23 „ 2 „ 9. Druinmoud's Improved Purp'e Top V Swede .7 .. .T_3 „ 15 „ 10. Sotton'i Elephant Swede .. 23 „ _ „ 11. Sutton's Orimaon Kin. Swede .. 22 „ 10 „ 12. Velmorill'a White Improved Sugar Beet .. .. .. .. 10 „ 13 „ 13. French (very rich.VSugar Beet .. 10 „ 0 „ 14. Crimson Beut Root .. 8 ~ 0 „ 15. Carter's Perfection Beet Root .. 8 „ 5 „ 16. Egyptian Turnip-rooted Boet Root S ~ 15 „ 17. Russian Sun-ower. Some very good flowers. 16. Five kinds malxe. Failure. Came up evenly, and a-rew to about 2ft high, but the cobs never set. Remarks.—The swedes came ou very well for some timo and promised to bo a good crop, but were attacked by the turnip •phis. The sugar beet came up well, the majority of the roots being from 10 to 16o_ in weight. POTATOIS IMPORTED FROM SUTTON, SNOLAXD, AND FIN-AY, SCOTLAND. Potatoes planted October 29th and 30th. Ploughed in on the flat rows 30in wide and sets 12 to 15in apart:— V-BT R.4R1.7. Ripe. Yield peracre. 1. Sutton'iT'.'.rlv Regent .. 20 April 2 tons 18 cwt 2. „ Abundance .. 20 „ 2 „ IB „ 5. Climax 20 „ 2 „ 18 „ 4. Finlay-s ituby Queen ~20 „ _ „ 0 „ 8. Queen of tho South ..26 „ 4 „ 13 „ KAB-T. 6. Finlay's Snow Drlf s .. 3 May 3 „ 8 „ 7. Finlay's rink Eyed Rusdett - 3 „ 7 „ 17 „ 8. Brown* Favourite. .. 10 „ 6 „ * „ 9. Beauty of Hebron .. 10 „ 7 „ 4 ~ 10. Tavlor"* Ironclad .. 10 „ 6 „ 17 „ 11. White Elephant .. ..ID ~ 5 „ 17 „ 12. Karly Puriun .. 10 „ 'f» „ 16 „ 13. Finhty's Lmlv ltowbelle .- 10 „ 8 ~ 10 „ 14. „ British Queen .. 10 „ 9 „ 10 „ 15. „ Kig-hty-Kold ~.-10 „ 5 „ 3 „ 16. „ Conquest .. 10 „ 7 „ 15 „ 17. „ Aurora.. .. 10 „ 3 „ 16 „ 18. „ Jeante Deans .. 10 „ 8 „ 0 „ 18. .., Karly Beauty .. 10 „ J8 „ 17 „ 80. Matfuum Bonum.. •■ 15 ~ 12 „ 15 „ • MSDU'- Klf.hr. 21. Bruce 15 „ 11 ~ 15 „ 22. Main Cro;> Kidney ..,15 „ 8 „ 6 „ 23. Imperator .. 15 „ 8 „ 0 „ 24. Para-ron. .. ..15 „ 10 „ 16 „ 25. Northern Kidney .. 15 „ 10 „ 16 „ 26. Berkshire Kidney .. 15 „ 9 ~ 16 ~ 37. Finlay'a Up to Date .. 15 „ 15 „ 0 „ 28. „ Good Hope ... 15 „ 11 „ 15 „ 29. „ Farmers' Glory ..15 „ 11 „ 14 „ 30. „ Cballenj-e ..15 „ 8„17 „ 31. „ Exhibitor ..15 „ 10 „ 4 „ 32. „ Lady Francis .. 15 „ 9 „ 4 „ 33. „ Her Majesty .. 15 „ 9 „ II „ 34. „ The Bruce .. 15 „ 11 „ 7 „ 1.-TX. 85. Blue Derwents .. .. 22 „ 8 „ 0 „ Remarks : — All the potatoes with the exception ot Finlay's Ruby Queen came up well; but owing to the dry weather and rain coming late, were all more or less affected by second growth. Cut and whole seed of each kind of the potatoes was planted ; but there was no apparent diilerence in the crop, either when coming up or when dug.