REPORT OF MR. G. H. BUTTON 



351 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



BARLEY— SOWN AT DIFFERENT DATES. 



The same two varieties of barley were sown under the same soil conditions as for 

 the test as to quantities of seed. The resiilts are fairly unifonn and point to the 

 advantages of the early seeding of barley. Too much advantage is often taken of the 

 comparatively short time necessary for barley to mature, the seeding is delayed and 

 then it does not have an opportunity of doing itself justice either in yield or quality 

 of grain produced. 



Barley — Sown at Different Dates. 



Variety. 



Mensury 



Invincible . 



Yield. 



Bush. Lbs. 



47 24 



30 .. 

 27 24 

 20 .. 



56 42 



34 18 



31 12 

 26 12 



EFFECTS OF A DIRECT APPLICATION OF MANURE UPON BARLEY. 



As a result of the tests with manure as applied before ploughing the stubble for 

 spring grain, it would appear that the best place to apply manure is not on stubble for 

 grain, but preferably upon hay stubble, taking a crop of hay before breaking. 



Manure as Applied to Mensury Barley. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH FIELD PEAS. 



Eighteen varieties of field peas were sown on April 14, on one-sixtieth acre plot* 

 on black clay loam. 



The soil was similar to that on which other grains were tested, and had been 

 ploughed out of timothy sod the summer of 1907. Growth was somewhat irregoilar and 

 unhealthy in appearance. 



