REPORT OF MR. W. H. FAIRFIELD 



385 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTS WITH DIFFERENT AMOUNTS OF SEED PER ACRE, 



The area of each plot was one-twentieth acre and they were all sown with Tartar 

 King oats on April 22 and 23 and irrigated July 14. 



Variety. 



Date 



of 



Seed ins:. 



TjMTtar King April 22. 



„ 22. 



„ 22 



p 22. 



., 23 



„ 2:> 



.- 23. 



.. 23. 



Date 

 Irrigated. 



July 14. 



M 14 



M 14. 



M 14. 



.. H. 



.. 14. 



,. 14 



„ 14. 



Amount 

 Seed 

 per Acre. 



of 



Lbs. 



15 

 30 

 45 

 60 

 75 

 90 

 105 

 120 



Yield 

 of Straw 

 per Acre. 



Lbs. 



2,720 

 2,6G0 

 2,420 

 2,260 

 2,960 

 2,440 

 2,200 

 2,340 



Yield 

 of Grain 

 per Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



60 

 51 

 61 

 69 

 74 

 64 

 68 

 66 



20 

 26 

 26 

 14 

 24 

 4 

 8 

 10 



EXPERIMENTS WITH BARLEY. 



TEST OF VARIETIES. 



Thirteen varieties of six-rowed and eleven varieties of two-rowed were sown April 

 21, at the rate of about 1^ bushels per acre, in one-seventieth acre plots on backsetting. 

 They were irrigated July 11. It may be stated that the irrigation of the uniform test- 

 plots of wheat and oats as well as of barley was unavoidably delayed a few days, on 

 account of a break in the Irrigation Company's main ditch, caused by the excessive 

 floods in June. In the case of the barley plots, the effect of the delay is quite 

 apparent. The two-rowed varieties, being later, were not so far advanced on July 11, 

 when they were all irrigated, as were the six-rowed, and, therefore, had not suffered 

 so much from drought. This, doubtless, is the reason that they yielded better than 

 did the six-rowed varieties. 



Six-Rowed Barley — Test of Varieties (Irrigated). 



g 



5 



1 



2 



3 



4 



5 



6 



7 



8 



9 



10 



11 



12 



13 



Name of Variety. 



Claude 



Mansfield 



Blue Long Head . , 



Yale 



Odessa 



Empire 



Mensurj' 



Nugent 



Oderbruch 



.Albert 



Sf-lla 



Champion 



Trooper 



Date 



of 



Ripening. 



Aug. 5. 



.July 29. 



Aug. 7. 



1. 



1. 



3. 



July 29. 



„ 29. 



Aug. 1 . 



July 29. 



.. 29. 



>. 29. 



,. 29. 



Character 



of 



Straw. 



Stiff..... 

 Medium. 

 Stiff.. . . 



Medium. 



Stiff.. .. 

 Medium. 





bo 



c 



In. 



n 



3* 



2h 

 oS 



21 



3 



3 



H 

 3 

 3 

 3 



n 



Weight 



of 

 Straw. 



Lbs. 



2,450 

 2, .520 

 1 ,890 

 2,520 

 1,995 

 2,100 

 2,1.^5 

 2,030 

 1,820 

 2.800 

 2,030 

 1,3.S0 

 1,680 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



59 

 49 

 45 

 45 

 44 

 37 

 37 

 36 

 36 

 30 

 30 

 27 

 24 



38 

 28 

 10 

 10 

 23 

 44 

 9 

 22 

 22 

 30 

 30 

 34 

 38 



05.5 



^ 3 C 



k ^ '^ 



be t. S 



I? Sis 



Lbs. 



48 



52 



45 



.V2i 



50i 



51 



48 



:m 



5l| 



46 



51 



48i 



49 



Average yield 38 bushels 44 lbs. 



16—25 



