alongside of the Red Fife and Ladoga. With this exception, the experiments were 

 carried out as planned, and the results are given in the following table : 



Barley, 



Prize Prolific 



Danish Chevalier.... 



Oats. 



Prize Cluster 



Early Race-horse 



Spking Wheat. 



Red Fife 



Ladoga 



Anglo-Canadian 



Sown 

 April 22nd. 



Yield per 

 Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



40 

 33 



11 



10 



5 



30 

 26 



02 



00 

 45 

 50 



Sown 

 April 29th. 



Yield per 

 Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



24 

 22 



33 

 35 



38 

 14 



23 



05 



00 

 15 



Sown 

 May 6th. 



Yield jjer 

 Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



16 

 19 



30 

 31 



22 

 38 



20 

 26 



15 

 00 



Sown 

 May 13th. 



Yield x>er 

 Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



14 

 15 



27 

 28 



4 

 3 



03 

 10 



17 

 13 



20 

 55 



Sown 

 May 21st. 



Yield per 

 Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



10 

 10 



20 

 18 



15 

 30 



10 

 18 



00 

 50 



Sown 

 May 28th. 



Yield per 

 Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



11 

 9 



17 

 19 



2 



2 



02 

 28 



22 

 04 



35 



30 



While it must be admitted that such tests will need to be repeated many times, 

 in order to reach averages which may neutralize the variations brought about in crops 

 by varying seasons, there is nevertheless such a regularity in the falling off in yield 

 week after week, as to carry with it convincing proof of the heavy losses which are 

 almost sure to occur where late seeding is practised. The loss on Prize Prolific barley 

 by a delay of one week in sowing is nearly 16 bushels per acre, and on Danish Chevalier 

 a little more than 11 bushels, while a delay of two weeks shows an average loss of 

 more than half the crop. The area under barley in Ontario in 1890 is estimated at 

 701,326 acres, and if but half of the average loss which was found to occur in the 

 exjieriments with the Prize Prolific barley in Ottawa be taken as a basis for an esti- 

 mate, it would appear that the farmers of Ontario may lose, by a delay of one week in 

 the time of seeding, over two and-a-half millions of dollars on the barley crop alone, 

 and by a delay of two weeks more than three and three-quarter millions, reckoning 

 the barley at 50 cents per bushel. 



The loss from similar delay in the wheat crop has proved proportionately less, 

 being about one-sixth of the crop where seeding has been delayed one week, one- 

 fourth where it has been deferred for two weeks, while a three weeks delay shows a 

 loss of considerably more than one-half. 



The oat crop appears to be less influenced by delay in seeding than either barley 

 or spring wheat. In the case of the Prize Cluster it shows a falling off of about 

 3 bushels per acre for the first week, but with a delay of two weeks it is a little 

 over 6^ bushels; but the oat crop is so very large that every bushel of loss per acre 

 in Ontario alone, taking oats at 40 cents per bushel, is equal to $752,946. 



DISTEIBUTION OF SEED GEAIN. 



The efforts begun in the spring of 1888, shortly after the Experimental Farms 

 were oj-ganized, to introduce among the farmers of Canada the best varieties of seed 

 grain obtainable, have been continued, and a very general and lively interest has been 

 awakened in this subject, which has already been attended with excellent results, and 

 which must, in the course of two or three years more, bring about a marked improve- 

 ment in the quality of the grain produced in Canada. It is also likeh'' to lead to an 

 increase in the average yield, and thus add to the pi-osj^erity of the farming com- 

 munity and to the general wealth of the Dominion. At the outset the distribution 



