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English White Oats have again given the largest yields, but they are this year 

 much lighter in weight than usual. 



Prize Cluster had the brightest straw and Early Eace Horse gave the best 

 sample of grain. 



Among the earliest to ripen this season were Welcome, Early Race Horse, 

 Winter Grey, Prize Cluster and Archangel. 



Excellent reports have been received from farmers supplied with Black Tartarian 

 seed, but this variety has not succeeded as well as usual on this farm. 



TEST OP VARIETIES OP OATS. 



Grown on summer fallow; soil, rich black loam ; sown with 9 pecks seed, Press 

 drill. Size of plots, one acre. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH BARLEY. 



Two series of plots were sown with barley, one on light loam and the other on 

 heavier land. The varieties sown on light loam were injured so badly by wind in 

 May that the returns would be misleading and are not given. 



The following varieties were sown on half and three-quarter acre plots on back- 

 setting ; soil, strong clay loam ; nearly all were more or less lodged and the colour and 

 plumpness of the samples somewhat injured. 



California Prolific well deserves its name and is a very promising variety; the 

 head is very similiar to the two-rowed Duckbill, and like it has good stiff straw. 



Webb's Kinver Chevalier is a very promising variety from England, where it has 

 taken the lead as a malting barley for some years; it had the stiffest straw of any of 

 the Chevalier sorts s<.'wn. 



Odessa Six-rowed is again much more prolific than the Rennie's Six-rowed. 



All were sown with the Press drill, at the rate of 7 pecks per acre. 



