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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



Summary of Wheat plots sown at different dates, spring 1894. 



Average yield of six plots of Red Fife Wheat. 



Stanley " . 

 of the two plots sown May 1 . 



8 



" 15. 



" 22 



" 29. 



June 5. 



Per Acre. 



Bush. lbs. 



30 

 28 

 30 

 29 

 32 

 32 

 28 

 24 



20 

 46 

 45 

 55 



5 

 30 

 00 



5 



Three years' average of Red Fife Wheat sown at different dates. 



Name of Variety. 



Red Fife Wheat 



1st plot sown 



2nd 



3rd 



4th 



5th 



6th 



£•0 





None. 



Oats — Results op Early, Medium and Late Sowing. 



These tests were conducted on plots of -fa acre each on clay loam. The effect of 

 sowing grain before the land is in a fit condition to receive the seed is apparent with the 

 oats as well as wheat, the first plots in each case yielding less than the second ones. 



The injurious effects of alkali even in small quantities is plainly shown in the 

 reduced yield of the two plots of oats sown on 29th May ; there was no evidence of the 

 alkali until the grain was up when the salts showed slightly on the ground, and the few 

 plants growing on these spots were backward and unhealthy looking. 



