EARLY OR LATE PLOUGHING?
A SANSON EXPERIMENT, To tost the benefit derived from early ploughing, Mr. Strode-Penny, Sanson, carried out the following experiment :— Soft Turnips.—Plot 1, ploughed on September. 27, yielded 20 tons, while p10t.2,' ploughed on December 10, yielded only 11 tons. Both plots were sown on December 15, Swedes.—Plot 1. .ploughed on September 27, yielded 18 tons, while' plot 2, ploughed on December 10,' yielded .10 tons. Both plots were sown on December 15. The tako on the- earlyploughed land was about 75 per cent, better than on the late ploughing, and tho roots on the early ploughing were about double.tho size of those on the late ploughing.—Agricultural "Journal." • ■ •
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1108, 22 April 1911, Page 8
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111EARLY OR LATE PLOUGHING? Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1108, 22 April 1911, Page 8
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