REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 



13 



EXPERIMENTS WITH BARLEY. 



Twenty-nine varieties of barley have been tested during the past season, fourteen 

 of which were two-rowed sorts, and fifteen six-rowed. These were all sown on plots of 

 ■gJg- acre each. The soil was a clay loam of fair quality ; it was manured in the sprin" 

 of 1891 with about 20 tons of barnyard manure to the acre ; it also received an ap- 

 plication of wood ashes late in the autumn of 1893, about 150 bushels to the acre. The 

 land was gang-ploughed very shallow after harvest, in the autumn of 1893, to cover and 

 start into growth any shed grain or weed seeds lying on the surface; later in the autumn 

 it was again ploughed seven to eight inches deep, and it was disc-harrowed and har- 

 rowed with the smoothing harrow in the spring, before sowing. The two-rowed varieties 

 were all sown on April 21st and 22nd, and the six-rowed sorts April 20th and 21st. 



Two-rowed Barley — Test of Varieties. 



Name of Variety. 



Bolton 



Danish Chevalier. . . 

 California Prolific. . . 



Newton 



Improved Chevalier. 

 French Chevalier. . . . 



Prize Prolific 



Duck-bill 



Thanet . 



Kinver Chevalier. . . . 

 Canadian Thorpe. . . . 



Victor 



Sidney 



New Golden Grains . . 



Length 



of 

 Straw. 



Inches. 



42 to 48 



27 to 34 

 34 to 43 

 30 to 40 



34 to 38 

 30 to 39 



35 to 38 



36 to 40 

 34 to 38 

 33 to 37 



28 to 43 

 36 to 44 

 36 to 45 

 21 to 36 



CD 



.2tf 

 o 



None. 



Slightly. 



Six-rowed Barley — Test op Varieties. 



Mensury 



Four- rowed 



Odessa 



Common ... 



Royal 



Vanguard 



Phoenix 



Pioneer 



Oderbruch 



Stella j 



Trooper 



Petschora 



Baxter's 



Rennie's Improved.. 

 Nugent 



43 to 

 40 to 

 39 to 



44 to 



39 to 

 36 to 

 36 to 



40 to 

 36 to 

 36 to 

 32 to 

 39 to 

 38 to 

 36 to 

 30 to 



52 

 50 

 46 

 48 

 44 

 45 

 45 

 48 

 44 

 40 

 40 

 44 

 46 

 44 

 37 



44 

 43 

 41 

 37 

 36 

 34 

 33 

 33 

 31 

 31 

 30 

 30 

 25 

 23 

 22 



None. 



Slightly. 

 None. 



FIELD CROPS OF BARLEY. 



Only one variety of barley was sown in field crop. This was Canadian Thorpe, a 

 two-rowed sort. It was sown on clay loam ; previous crop was corn and beans. The 

 land was manured in the spring of 1893, — before sowing the corn and beans, — with 

 from 18 to 20 tons of barnyard manure per acre. It was ploughed in the spring of 



