REPORT OF MR. THOMAS A. SHARPS 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



experi:m:en'ts with fall rye. 



Eour plots of one-fortieth of an acre each of fall rye were sown alongside of and 

 under the same conditions as the fall wheat. The rye plants are hardier and these plots 

 did not suffer as much as the wheat plots and the jaeld was much better. The grain 

 is not of much value here and there is no market for rye straw, so that it is not much 

 sown. 



Fall Rye — Test of Varieties. 



EXPERLMENTS WITH SPRIN'G WHEAT. 



Fourteen varieties of spring wheat were sown on April 10. The previous crop 

 was corn, which followed clover, and, the clover stubble having been manured with 

 about ten tons of barnyard manure per acre and carefully prepared for the seed wheat 

 and the seed treated with formaldehyde, there was, if the season proved favourable, 

 every reason to hope for a h^eavy crop. The growth was strong and the heads long and 

 promising, but enough midge appeared to survive, to considerably injure the crops, 

 many of the heads being only half filled or the grain shrunken. The plots were one- 

 fortieth of an acre each and there was no rust. 



Spring Wheat— Test of Varieties. 



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Name of Variety. 



Date 



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Ripening. 



Chelsea 



Marquis 



Riga 



Bishop . . . . 



Stanley 



Percy 



Huron 



Preston 



Hungarian White . . 



White Russian 



Red Fern 



Pringle's Champlain 



Red Fife 



White Fif© 



16—26 



Aug. 11.. 

 8.. 



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II 13.. 



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II 14.. 



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II 11.. 



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