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Eesults of grain tests, 1890-91. 



TWO-ROWED BAELEY. 



In the annual report of the expeiimental farms for 1890 reference is made to 

 the importation from England by the Government of a large lot of one of the best 

 varieties of two-rowed barley for seed, which was sold to farmers at less than the 

 cost of importation, in order to thoroughly test the value of this grain in all pans 

 of the Dominion. It is there stated that a shipment of 50 quarters, 400 English 

 bushels, of the barley grown from that seed, weighing about 52 lbs. per bushel had 

 been forwarded to London, England, to be malted and brewed by one of the leading 

 brewei'S there. This barley consisted of five or six lots, grown in different parts 

 of Ontario. It was all forwarded to Ottawa, where the barley was thoroughly 

 cleaned and mixed under my supervision, and the small kernels and as much as 

 possible of the broken grain removed by passing it through a Sizer or Boby 

 machine, so that the sample was fairly uniform in character. 



