SWEDE-GROWING ON THE WEST COAST.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 890, 9 August 1910, Page 8

SWEDE-GROWING ON THE WEST COAST.

:VS; "' : FAIIJ[ERS''EXPERDIENTS. ,■; ':■£ .■'.Mr.-G.'-de-S. Baylis, ihe North Islands , fields.instructor,.-forwards tho, following': 'compilations I respecting some' interesting-. . swede" turnip-owing. experiments ; y "ihave beeii 'carried."on by" WesttCoast; i :> ; : V; Y:'' "'-",.:-/:. ■■:,:;.- j'^-'?.^! , !; , . , - -^At, : the farm?.6f Jtr.; ; J. .' Balsillio v";(a' BotedV-Kairanga:/grower).-the crop".•was-.-Bowri in!-.iSiii'. drills.'.with' 2cwt..'W.11,E... N0.,:3 ■-. per' acre,-.0n;,-December'23,; 1909.'. : . "Club-root : was very- -prevaieiit, :.Su'ttou's v ,Magnuni Bomim,,'Garton's: end Sutton's Chanipion proving/in'-;.;this ~: ; i nstance to be the least affec.ted., .Of..the.,

-..'Elephant.variety:.about GO'..per cent;'.were •■ '• -effected with -club-.r00t,":. of Crimson: King r : -7S per 'cent, : of. Sutton's..Ch'aiupion';.s.''.per txenti-.were slightly..affected/; ot Gartons O ; 5 pe'f cent.,.and of .'.Sutton.s '-; : Magnum Bonum-.l.per cent. ■'• • ■: . ; -:,'i Sutton'3 ■ Garton's', Superla'*'.tive, "and Suttpn's MaKnuni Bonuin' ap'peared -to ibe ituVVarieties'-, which had "''"thriven, best 'in -these trials.. Nimmo ":-" and •■Blair's" Standard also yielded fairly vV-go'pdi-bulbs, .-fl'hese trials ..were: .put in :!' verj' :iut»; and -V<> uru , very badly. aitecteu -•■■:-. ifay. the "vaTiousiblißhts so| prevalent, this-:.;.-,Beaspn;'-;;-:'.' : - ; ■ ■ ! _--' ' : ri .-'.; •'.; The -.variety trial: at .-.-Mr.-- r.Strode !v Pennj-'si. Sanson, : differed frpni. others in -/"that part- of:' each<-plot -was sown -oh -land /,/jjlouglieil on.SeptWiibei- 27,. 1909, and. thu ' - balance of /the-, 'land . was .ploughed on '; [December iflj-ip.Oil.' The manure .used was i- '<!"■ parts,guanoi' 10 parts super.,.4' parts ' ; . fcainit;' at'-:the ; . : r"ate.'of'' IJcwt.- per: acre. : -'iAll ; ! varieties^'were.-badly., affected!..:with ■; .'leaf r par : asites. : '.-'. v -There-..was .a"i. far. better -■ijtakif oil" the iearly-plougKud'land, although ,■ St.:ha'd..not'.beeni cultivated ■ until peceni- •■ <jer,-'»;-ivhen ; . the vlnte- ploughing- was also \: Scultiv'ated.; ■ -The;"'bulbs,- besides being more ■.: mumerous,' ! were,very much larger,:,a...yerjr. ; ■anark«l 'diife'rence' was .visible to the'eye. -.- '■' Monarch ' and ' the: Elephant va- : " Series" .-were: badly: ; ''affected with club '/iropt.,---in ; Crimson..King internal .brown ■; ijepot'.'was 'present, :whilo club-..r00t-was :. 'ipresent in, Crimson "King; .Hurst's..Mag- ' \num BonuinVWeWs Imperial',' and Nim-" V-too and Blair's Standard slightly; ) and' --(j-ery 'slightly indeed in Garton's Supertlatiye, and not ; at all-in Sutton's Cham-: . jpioij. } Tho. yield on .tho ean,\ '■- gilqughed.ground,wns 18to~ns 10 cwt., and ' ion tho'late pWmthini? 10 tons 12 cwt. : ; y : The crop' at: Mr. 11. Booth's,-. I'eildinp;, ;■ Vwas.'. soivn in"2liri;' drills with IJcwt.

: ROUS. No. 3iper. acre. .; All varieties. '; iwere. affected)by-,the aphis and the. cab- :■: Jbage .nipth. ' Club root top was < much in '. (evidence." In this" experiment, .Gartons ''.;. (Superlatiyd was.p'ractically free" from club .: root, /while Garton's Monarch ■' and Snt- •: ton's Chanipipn'( were not much affected. ..:Sutton's /.Crimson . King, ...and'. 'SuttonV ,'■' 331 fphant,' however,' had.; a great deaV'of •• jclilb root,; and-the .other, varieties ..were , »flected Mn: a minor-degree. i.Garton's. ..Superlative,' and •next", to, ;that, probably, : !&ii Eton's ■ Champion appeared.-,to■ be: the : varieties most at home in this partlchlai .-".:-, "/;:"./, -:{■■ ■"".--