262 



EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



9-10 EDWARD VII., A. 1910 



grain in twelve plots of one-fortieth acre each were grown, and each of these series 

 of plots was treated in the same way. Six idiots were seeded down at the time the 

 grain was sown, June 20, and six plots with grain alone. These plots were sown in 

 a similar manner last season, and those seeded to clover this year had been seeded 

 to clover the previous season also, and those not seeded to clover this year had not 

 been seeded to clover the previous year. No fertilizer had been used except the clover 

 turned under. Each of the two previous years had a particularly light crop, both 

 seasons being unsuited to clover growing. 



Clover Experiments. 



No. 



Name of Variety and how seeded. 



Pringle's Champlain Wheat — (Sown June 8. Cut Sept. 14th) 



Without Clover 



With Clover 



Without Clover 



With Clover 



Odessa Barley — Sown June 8th. Cut Sept. 1st). 



Without Clover 



With Clover 



Without Clover 



With Clover 



Pioneer Oa^s— (Sown June 8th. Cut Sept. 11th). 



Without Clover 



With Clover 



Without Clover , 



With Clover 



EXPERIMENTS WITH INOCULATED CLOVER AND ALFALFA. 



Experiments were again conducted with clover and alfalfa, sown side by side, 

 each treated and un-treated with nitro culture to determine the value to be derived 

 from nitro culture as c-ompared with untreated seed, and also to compare the value 

 of clover and alfalfa as grown in this section. Four half-acre plots were used for this 

 experiment, the land being in a rather poor state of fertility and not having previously 

 had manure. These plots were sown June 20. No difference was found in the plots 

 treated and untreated in either case. A small portion, running right across all four 

 plots, that had received a dressing of air-slaked lime previously, showed a decided 

 improvement over the other parts, indicating that, on this particular piece of land, the 

 application of lime would probably bave been bonefieial. A poor stand was obtained 

 on all the plots, and at date of writing the crop would api)ear to be entirely killed out. 

 An extreme and prolonged drought immediately after this crop was sown, may account 

 to some extent for the poor stand of both. 



This experiment was duplicated in a small way in the season of 1907, with one- 

 fortieth acre plots each, on clay soil in a good state of fertility, under-drained and 

 with a good supply of humus. In this case both clover and alfalfa, treated and 

 untreated, grew well and passed the winter fairly well, some parts of the plots being 

 fairly good, while others were entirely killed out. This was cut three times in the 

 season of 1908, giving a light crop at each cutting. In neither case were there any 

 noticeably good effects from the use of the nitro culture. 



