REPORT OF MR. JAMES MURRAY 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Peas — Test op Varieties. 



average yield for five years. 



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

 yield on this farm for the past five years. 



Variety . 



Mackay 



Gregory 



Early Britain 



Prince 



Pictoii 



Arthur 



Victoria 



Paragon 



Prussian Blue 

 English Grey . 



Field Crops of Peas, 1908. 



EOTATION EXPEEIMENTS. 



In 1899, some experiments were started to test the feasibility of eliminating the 

 hare summerfallow from the system of farming in the province, by substituting the 

 ploughing-down of some leguminous crop every third year. On account of the land 

 wnere these tests were in progress being repeatedly flooded, the work of the first three 

 years was lost, and these trials were started again in 1905. The following tables 

 give the system of rotation, with the yields, and other particulars of the crop pro- 

 duced in 1908. 



