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Dominion, on the Experimental Farms and by individual farmers with good results. 

 This was purchased from the well known seed firm of James Carter & Co., of London, 

 England, and brought out in 5,000 bags of 112 lbs. each— two English bushels. Arrange- 

 ments were made for its disposal by the Director of Experimental Farms, and on its 

 arrival in Montreal a number of bags were opened, the grain carefully examined 

 and its germinating power tested. The bariej^ proved to be fairly uniform and 

 plump, and weighed about 54 lbs. to the bushel, but many of the bags were found to 

 contain a small percentage of foreign grain and seeds. To separate these and insure 

 uniformity in the sample the whole of the 5,000 bags were opened and the grain 

 passed twice through the cleaning machinery belonging to the Montreal Warehouse 

 Co., when the bags were rc-filled, weighed and prepared for shipment. This work 

 necessarily caused some delay and entailed expense and loss, towards which Messrs. 

 Carter & Co. subsequently contributed £50 sterling. 



In the meantime, orders had been received from 2,606 farmers in different parts 

 of the Dominion for 3,200 bags and these were forwarded as rapidly as possible ; but not- 

 withstanding that the utmost efforts were used to ensure prompt despatch, the grain 

 in many instances did not reach its destination early enough to produce the best 

 results. 



The season proved unfavourable for barley in Ontario, Quebec and the Eastern 

 Provinces, but this crop has been grown with fair success in Manitoba, the North- 

 West Territories and British Columbia. In the central and eastern Provinces the 

 six-rowed barley of the crop of 1890 is much lighter than usual, the Ontario crop 

 being estimated at about 2 lbs lighter than the average of past years, and it 

 may be fairly presumed that the two-rowed barley has suffered in a like degree. 

 After harvest,circulars were sent to all those who had been purchasers of the imported 

 barley, asking information concerning dates of sowing and harvesting, description of 

 of soil, the preceding crop, manure used, yield per acre and total yield, leaving a 

 larger space on the sheet for general remarks. A small cotton bag with an addressed 

 tag was enclosed with each circulai', and the parties were requested to forward a 

 sample by mail of about 1 lb. in weight of the barley grown from the seed 

 purchased. The number of reports and samples received up to the 30th of January 

 is as follows : Ontario, 872 ; Quebec, 48 ; Nova Scotia, 13 ; New Brunswick, 23 ; 

 Prince Edward Island, 11 ; Manitoba, 62 ; North-West Territories; 22 ; British 

 Columbia, 1. 



The following table shows the results in the yield per acre and total yield, the 

 average weight of the samples as received and their weight after cleaning, by which 

 from 12 to 18 per cent, of the lighter grain was separated. This cleaning was neces- 

 sary, for the reason that many of the samples were forwarded just as they came from 

 the threshei and hence were not in a marketable condition. 



Table showing results of tests of Two-rowed Barley (Prize Prolific), imported by 



the Government of Canada for seed. 



Ontario 



Quebec 



Nova Scotia 



New Bnini5wick 



Prince Edward Island . 



Manitoba 



North-West Territories . 

 British Columbia 



Number 

 of Reports 



with 

 Samples. 



872 

 48 

 13 

 23 

 11 

 62 

 22 

 1 



Yield 



per 



Aci-e. 



Bushels. 



25h 

 20| 

 2H 



22f 

 26i 

 39 



27i 

 45| 



Total Yield 



from 

 112 Pounds. 



Bushels. 



28i 

 22| 

 26h 



24?r 

 27| 

 43| 

 32-X 



Weight per 

 Bushel as 

 Received. 



Lbs. 



50i 



48i 



47t\, 



47i 



48 



48 



4Gh 



50l 



Weight per 



Bushel after 



Cleaning. 



Lbs. 

 5U 



m 



48 

 49| 

 49 

 50| 



50| 

 53 



