REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



15 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



OATS SO\\N IN DIFFERENT QUANTITIES PER ACRE ON SANDY LOAM SOIL. 



(SowTi in 1902, May 3 ; ripe, AuguM 17.) 



OATS SOWN IN DIFFERENT QUANTITIES PER ACRE ON CLAY LOAM SOIL. 



(So\vn in 1902, April 24 ; ripe, August 13.) 



BARLEY SOWN IN DIFFERENT QUANTITIES PER ACRE ON SANDY LOAM SOIL, 



(Sown in 1903, May 3 ; ripe, August 5.) 



Mensury 1 J bush, per acre, 

 II 2 II 



II 2^ II 



II 3 II 



II 03 II 



II 4 II 



40 

 16 

 24 

 24 

 32 



BARLEY SOWN IN DIFFERENT QUANTITIES PER ACRE ON CLAY LOAM SOIL. 



(Sown in 1902, April 21 ; ripe, August 1. ) 



Mensury 1^ bush, per acre 



II 2 II 



II 25 II 



II 3 II 



II 35 II 



II 4 II 



8 

 40 

 16 



8 



24 



EXPERIMENTS WITH PEASE. 



Sixty-one varieties were included in the uniform trial plots during the season of 

 1902. The soil on which they were sown was a mixed clay and sandy loam, in some 

 parts the clay predominated, in others it was more sandy. The previous crop was 

 experimental plots of wheat. Tiie land received a dressing of fresh barn-yard manure 

 of about twelve tons per acre during the winter of 1899-1900, which was put on the 

 frozen ground in small heaps of about one-third of a cart load each, and spread and 

 ploughed under in the spring. No irianure has been applied since. In the autumn of 

 1901 after the wheat was hai-vcsted the land was ploughed shallow to start shed grain 

 and weed seeds, and ploughed again later about seven inches deep and left in that con- 

 dition until the following spring, when it was cultivated twice with the two-horse culti- 

 vator and harrowed twice with the smoothing harrow before the pease were sown. 



