MANGOLD CROPPING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 873, 20 July 1910, Page 10

MANGOLD CROPPING.

EXPERIMENTS IN MANAWATU. The North Island Fields Instructor, Mr. G. de S. Bayliss, has been supervising experiments with mangold crops 'in the Feilding and the Palmerston North: districts. At Feilding the sito was on Mr. Hugh Burrell's farm, ■ and at Palmerston North on Mr. F. S. M'Eao's farm.

At Mr. BurrelPs the crops were sown on December 6, 1909, in drills 28 inches apart, with the following manures :— Two cwt. Japanese super., lowt. bonedust, lewt. -kainit, ijewt. suljji. ammonia, and Jcwt. salt. On June 16, 1910, records were taken. Sutton's crimson tankard yielded -12.4 tons; Nimmo and Blair's long red, 50.3 tons; ■Nimmo and Blair's ciianipion globe, 51.5 tons; Sutton's prizo-iviuner X globe, 62.1, tons; (Jarton's gate-post large Y intermediuie, 5(3.8* tons; Garton's improved new • sugar mangold, 42.4 tons ;■ and Nimmo and Blair's prize-winner Y globe, 42.9 tons. ' The previous crop had been potatoes, and the land had been frequently cultivated prior to the sowing of the mangolds; resulting in the land being free from weeds, and producing . a good crop, < although no inter-cultivation had been , ' given after the crop was up, beyond thinning the plants. At Mr. M'Kae's, three kinds were sown. Half of each plot was sown without manure, and on the other half a mixture of 2cwt. super, and lewt. Island guano per acre was used. The yields were as follow:—Carton's mammoth long red, manured, 64 tons; same without manure, 56S- tons; Nimmo and Blair's' golden tankard, manured, 57J tons; same without manure, 57 tons; Sutton's prize-winner Y globe, manured,;' 87 tons; and same without manure;; 69 tons. ■ • - •;■ •