102 



EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



9-10 EDWARD VII., A. 1910 

 CROPS OUTSIDE THE ROTATION EXPERIMENTS. 



Besides the crops and fields reported upon below, there were grown upon the ' 200- 

 aere farm' 4 acres of mangels and 8 acres of corn. A statement of the financial side 

 of this 12 acres of crops is as follows : — 



Cost to operate 12 acres $162 87 



Value of product, 242,560 pounds at $2 per ton 242 56 



Profit 79 69 



SEED GRAIN SELECTION. 



An experiment to compare the values of seed oats (Banner) coming from regular 

 field crops and those coming from the hand-selected seed plots, was carried on in 1908. 

 A four-acre field was divided lengthwise into 16 plots of i acre each and sown as 

 below. The yield in pounds of clean grain is indicated in the first column. Seed was 

 sown May 6, 1908, and harvested August 11. 



RESULTS FROM SELECTED OAT SEED, 1908. 



All sown May 6. Cut Ausrust IL 



