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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



The branch Experimental Farms also supplied a large number of farmers in their 

 several districts, with new and promising sorts of grain in bags of two bushels each. 

 These were sold to farmers at a slight advance on the ordinary prices prevailing at the 

 time, for such grain. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH OATS. 



Comparative tests have been made with 36 varieties of oats, for earliness, yield and 

 other qualities. These were all sown on clay loam and about the same time, on plots 

 of -^ of an acre each, excepting the varieties known as Banner and Abundance, which 

 were on plots of -£$ of an acre. The previous crop was Indian Corn, and the land was 

 manured in the spring of 1891 with about 20 tons of barnyard manure to the acre; it 

 also received an application of wood ashes late in the autumn of 1893, about 150 bushels 

 to the acre. The treatment of the land was as follows : It was gang-ploughed very 

 shallow in the autumn of 1893, after harvesting, to cover and start into growth any shed 

 grain or weed seeds lying on the surface. Later in the autumn, it was ploughed seven 

 to eight inches deep, and it was disc-harrowed and harrowed with the smoothing harrow 

 in the spring, before sowing. All the varieties were sown on April 18th and 19th. 



Oats, Test of Yarieties. 



Name of Variety. 



Early Blossom 



Abyssinia 



Banner 



Lincoln 



Golden Beauty 



Early Gothland 



Oderbruch 



Joanette 



Rosedale .... 



Giant Cluster 



Californian Prolific Black . . . 



Poland ...... 



Early Etampes, not distin- 

 guishable from Joanette . . . 



Early Archangel 



American Triumph 



Golden Giant, same as Giant 

 Cluster ... 



Wide- A wake 



Wallis 



Columbus 



Imported Irish 



Improved Ligowo 



Holstein Prolific 



Abundance 



Elymg Scotchman.... ... . 



Bavarian 



Bonanza 



Welcome 



Scottish Chief 



Coulommiers 



Rennie's Prize White 



Prolific Black Tartarian 



Siberian 



Prize Cluster 



White Wonder 



White Monarch 



Royal Doncaster Prize 



"S 



o 



<D 



July 



Aug. 

 July 

 Aug. 



CI 



July 



Aug. 

 July 



Aug. 

 July 



Aug. 

 J uly 

 Aug. 



July 

 Aug. 



.",1 

 30 

 28 

 28 

 29 

 29 

 30 

 1 



30 



7 



1 



28 



1 

 28 



31 



7 



30 



•2'J 



■2'.) 



25 



28 



30 



28 



27 



30 



23 



25 



23 



7 



26 



5 



7 



25 



23 



3 



7 



he 



io: 



103 42 



100 

 100 

 101 

 100 



m 



o 



bp 



53 

 ►J 



Inches. 



42 







102142 

 101|3il 

 103142 

 11036 

 10432 

 100 ' 15 



to 51 

 to 54 

 to 48 

 to 48 

 to 45 

 to 54 

 to 58 

 to4S 

 to 54 

 to 50 

 to4G 

 to 51 



Stiff . 



104 

 101 

 103 



110 



102 



101 



101 



96 



100 



102 



100 



99 



102 



95 



98 



95 



110 



98 



108 



36 

 36 

 36 



12 

 42 

 39 

 40 

 33 

 36 

 40 

 36 

 36 

 34 

 40 

 42 

 43 

 110J4S 

 98,43 

 95 36 



36 to 42 

 44 to 51 

 36 to 43 



106 

 110 



to 46 

 to4S 

 to 48 

 to 50 

 to 51 

 to 40 

 to 46 

 co 48 

 to 48 

 to 48 

 to 48 

 to 54 

 to 43 

 to 48 

 to 55 

 to 50 

 to 56 

 to 54 

 to 48 

 to 48 

 to 42 



Fair. 

 Stiff 



ft 



Pair. 



Stiff 



Fair 

 n 



Stiff. 



Fair . 



Stiff . 

 Fair . 

 Fair . 



Stiff . 



Fair 



Stiff 

 Fair 



Fair. . 



Fair . 



Fair . 



Stiff . 



Fair . 

 tt 



Fair . 

 Weak 



T3 



K 



bo 

 C 



0) 



Inches. 



7 to 9 

 7 to 9 

 7 to 9 

 7 to 9 



7 to 9 



8 to 10 

 7 to 9 



7 to 9 

 Sto9i 



8 to 10 

 OtoS 

 StolO 



7 to 9 

 StolO 



6 to 8 



9 to 11 



7 to 9 

 7 to 9 

 7 to 9 

 Stoll 

 7 to 9 

 7 to 8i 

 7 to 9" 

 8Uoll 



7 to 10 

 9 to 11 



8 to 12 



9 to 114 

 StolO 

 9 to 12 

 7 to 8 



9 to 10 

 9 to 12 

 9 to 11£ 

 7 to 9 

 7 to 9 



T3 



0) 



w 



-a 



Sided... . 

 Half sided 

 Branching 



Half sided 

 tc 



Branching 

 Half sided 

 Sided 



Branching 



Sided..... 

 Branching 



M 

 H 



Sided 



, , ..... 

 Branching 



bus. lbs. 



43 

 42 

 39 

 39 

 39 

 39 

 38 

 37 

 37 

 37 

 36 

 36 



35 

 34 

 34 



34 



32 

 32 

 32 

 32 

 31 

 31 

 31 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 29 

 29 

 29 

 28 

 26 

 26 

 16 



8 



12 



14 



4 



4 



4 



28 



32 



18 



2 



27 



26 



10 



25 

 24 



14 

 32 

 12 

 12 

 12 

 26 

 16 

 6 

 30 

 20 

 20 

 10 

 10 

 00 

 24 

 14 

 4 

 8 

 26 

 16 

 16 



Lbs 



354 



38± 



34^ 



33i 



33| 



40} 



38§ 



33 



38* 



31 



29 



37i 



32 



40i 

 32| 



29| 



31 



334 



33" 



394 



36 



34 



34 



39 



33J 



40 



39 



374 



3l| 



35 



304 



30" 



39| 



38i 



35| 



32 



Proportion 

 Rusted. 



Considerably. 



cs 



Slightly. 

 n 



tt 



Slightly. 



Considerably. 



Slightly. 



Slighly. 



Considerably. 



Considerably. 



Slightly. 



Slightly. 

 Very slightly. 

 Slightly. 



Considerably. 

 a 



Slightly. 

 << 



Very slightly. 

 Slightly. 

 Very slightly. 

 Slightly. 



Slightly. 

 tt 



Considerably. 



Badly. 



Considerably. 



Slightly. 

 tt 



Considerably. 

 Badly. 



