30 



Test of Yarieties of Oats, all sown same day. 



Americaai Beauty . . . 

 American Triumph. 



Bonanza 



Banner 



Badger Queen 



Black Tartarian 



Prolific (Webb's). 



Challenge White Canadian 



Canadian Triumph 



Cream Egyptian 



Early Archangel 



Early Race-horse 



Early Blossom . . . . 



Engli sh Potato 



Plying Scotchman 



Giant White Side 



Hazlett'a Seizure 



Holstein Prolific 



Hungarian \Vhite 



Georgia Early White 



Longfellow 



New Zealand 



Oderbruch 



Prize Cluster 



Rennie's Prize White 



Rosedale 



Siberian 



Victoria Priz« . . . 



Wide Awake 



White Russian . . 



Welcome 



White Dutch.... 

 White Giant..,. 



Waterloo 



White Egyptian 

 English White. 



Bush. lbs. 



30 

 21 

 23 

 37 

 27 

 22 

 20 

 24 

 31 

 57 

 33 

 36 

 38 

 38 

 48 

 21 

 11 

 45 

 30 

 32 

 42 

 14 

 29 

 28 

 25 

 27 

 34 

 18 

 24 

 15 

 37 

 32 

 36 

 37 

 49 

 21 



03 



14 

 30 

 14 

 29 



33 



14 

 28 

 12 

 13 

 24 

 18 

 08 

 26 

 24 

 06 



28 

 32 



29 

 32 

 28 

 13 

 32 

 02 

 33 

 16 

 12 

 30 

 32 

 24 

 15 

 32 

 08 



Weight 



per 

 BusheL 



Lbs. 

 23i 



This list cannot be taken as a fair index of the fertility and quality of the 

 different varieties, but since most of the plots were subject to the same unfavourable 

 conditions, it was thought best to publish this comparative table. The field plots 

 which follow, not having suffered so much with rust, make a much better showing 

 and are more reliable as regards the comparative value of the different sorts. 



LARGER FIELD PLOTS. 



When the words " no manure " are used in the following records, it should be 

 understood to mean that no manure has been applied to the lands spoken of since the 

 experimental farm was purchased in 1887. We have no records of the treatment 

 of such portions of the land as were under cultivation prior to this. When the word 

 " manure " is used it means an application of about twenty two-horse loads per acre. 

 Where reference is made to the preparation of the soil, it should be understood 

 that in all cases where the disc harrow is used that it is followed with the ordinary 

 toothed or smoothing harrow run crosswise before the grain is sown. 



Banner. — On light sandy soil; manured in the spring of 1890; ploughed in the 

 autumn of 1890, and disc harrowed in the spring of 1891; seven acres; sown 2nd 

 May ; 2|- bushels per acre ; ripe 15th August ; time to mature, 105 days ; yield per 

 acre, 44 bushels 31 lbs.; weight per bushel, 36|^ lbs. Oat long, white; length of 



