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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



•1894, and harrowed with smoothing harrow before sowing. 8| acres, sown April 21st ; 

 2 bushels per acre ; ripe July 22hd ; time to mature, 92 days ; yield per acre, 25 bushels 

 13 lbs. : weight per bushel 49|- lbs .; length of head, 3 to 3} inches ; length of straw, 

 36 to 42 inches ; all standing well ; some rust on leaves, very little on stems ; no smut. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH FALL WHEAT. 



Fourteen varieties of fall wheat have been under test during the past season, most 

 of them in plots of ^ acre each. They were all sown on September 13th, 1893, and 

 harvested from the 15th to the 18th of July, 1894. The soil was a sandy loam which 

 had a light coating of manure in the spring of 1893, about 10 tons to the acre. The 

 previous crop was oats. After the oats were harvested the land was gang-ploughed 

 lightly to start weeds and shed grain and ploughed again about 7 inches deep, and har- 

 rowed with smoothing harrow before sowing. 



The Manchester, Early Red Clawson and Willit's were all injured by depredations 

 of birds ; but for this, the crop of these varieties would have been reported larger. 



FALL WHEAT — TEST OP "VARIETIES. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH SPRING WHEAT. 



During the season of 1894, thirty-six varieties of spring wheat were tested, twenty- 

 seven of these were on plots of l-20th acre each, and nine on plots of l-40th acre. The 

 land was clay loam adjoining the experimental plots of barley, anil' received a similar 

 application of manure in the spring of 1891, and of ashes in the autumn of 1893. The 

 preparation of the land also was the same as that for the experimental plots of oats and 

 barley. 



Several of the varieties which show a comparatively small yield, would have been 

 reported as giving more liberal returns but for the depredations of sparrows, which were 

 most persistent in their attentions, especially to the later ripening sorts. Particulars 

 of growth, yield, &c, will be found in the following table : — 



