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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



9-10 EDWARD VII., A. 1910 



Oats — Test of Varieties. 



average yield for five years. 



Following is a list of a number of the leading varieties of oats and their average 

 yield on this farm for the past five years: — 



Variety. 



Improved American . 



Banner 



White Giant 



Danish Island 



Golden Beauty 



Goldfinder 



Siberian 



Abundance 



Golden Giant 



Lincoln . . 



American Triumph . . 



Wide Awake 



Daubeney , 



Daubeney is a particularly early variety, ripening usually about two weeks earlier 

 than Banner. It is particularly adapted to late districts or sowing late in the season. 

 It is a white oat with a very thin hull, but the average yield is considerably below 

 that of many other sorts. 



EXPEKIMENTS WITH BARLEY. 



The season was a favourable one for barley and good crops of good quality were 

 secured. The yield from the two-rowed varieties was scarcely up to the average, as 

 these were just ripening during our very warm weather, while the six-rowed varieties 

 were ripe earlier, and the yield was not affected to the same extent by the excessive 

 heat. 



Fourteen varieties of six-rowed, and eleven varieties of two-rowed barley were 

 sown May 26. The plots were one-twentieth of an acre each, the land being clay loam 

 that had been summerfallowed in 1907. 



Six-Eow Barley — Test of Varieties. 



Name of Variety. 



1 



2 



3 



4 



5 



6 



7 



8 



9 



10 



11 



12 



13 



Odessa 



Mensury 



Blue Long Head. 



Albert 



Mansfield 



Yale 



No. 21 



Empire 



Claude 



Trooper 



Stella 



Nugent 



Oderbruch , 



14 Champion . 



Kind 



of 

 Head. 



Bearded . 



Beardless . 



02 



bo 



Lbs. 



3,360 

 3,130 

 3,520 

 2,970 

 2,670 

 2,990 

 3,410 

 3,480 

 2,290 

 2, .530 

 2,560 

 2,440 

 2,220 

 1,940 



Yield 



per 



Acre. 



3 



61 

 59 

 57 

 56 

 56 

 56 

 56 

 52 

 52 

 49 

 48 

 47 

 45 

 32 



^ 

 12 

 38 

 44 

 42 

 42 

 22 



2 

 24 

 14 

 18 

 36 



4 

 20 

 24 



c8 a) be 

 fi 2-5 

 a, ■- 

 ? i> S 



be L. .W 



Lbs. 



50* 

 50| 

 43 



49 



49i 



48" 



49.i 



47 



50 



50 



481 



52 



45 



Rusted. 



None, 



Very slightly. 



None. 



Very slightly. 



None. 



Very slightly. 



None. 



Very slightly. 



None. 



