REPORT OF MR. W. H. FAIRFIELD 



375 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTS WITH DIFEERENT QUANTITIES OF SEED PER ACRE 



(NON-IRRIGATED). 



Area of plots one-twentieth acre; Tartar King Oats; sown April 22: — 



Unfortunately, the gophers damaged these plots of oats so that the results cannot 

 be relied upon implicitly. This may account for the yield from the plot seeded at the 

 rate of 75 lbs. per acre being apparently irregular. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH BARLEY. 



Thirteen varieties of, six-rowed and eleven varieties of two-rowed barley were sown 

 on April 22, at the rate of about 1^ bush, per acre in one-seventieth acre plots on 

 backsetting. The land was a sandy loam. 



Six-Row^ED Barley — Test of Varieties (Non-Irrigated). 



Name of "Variety. 



1 



2 



3 



4 



5 



6 



7 



8 



9 



10 



11 



12 



13 



Blue Long Head . 



Claude 



Empire 



4 'Mansfield 



Albert 



Odessa 



Mensury 



Stella 



Nugent 



Yale 



Oderbruch 



Trooper 



Champion .... . 



Date of 

 Ripening. 



July 31. 



H 30. 



M 30. 



M 30. 



M 31. 



>. 31 . 



M 30. 



M 31. 



M 30. 



,. 31. 



n 30. 



M 31. 



M 30. 



Character 



of 



Straw. 



Stiff..., 



It .... 



Medium 



Stiff" . . . 

 Medium 



Stiff'.'... 



II . . . • 

 II .... 



II . . . 



Medium 

 Stiff.... 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



56 

 55 

 48 

 42 

 39 

 37 

 37 

 37 

 36 

 32 

 30 

 29 

 20 



42 

 20 

 10 

 14 



8 

 44 

 44 



9 

 22 



4 

 30 



8 

 20 



ce O 



a 2 



a. 



bo 



a 



■3 

 i) 



I— « 



a 



(4 



S) 



<I> 



m cS 



Lbs. 



43 

 44 



48 

 48 

 41 

 49 

 44 

 48: 

 47 

 51 

 47 

 49 

 45 



Average yield 38 bushels 36 lbs., per acre. 



