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EXrEIilMEJS'TAL FARMS 



2-3 hJWARD VII., A. 1903 



SPRING WHEAT TEST OF VARIETIES Concluded. 



EXPERIxMENTS WITH PEASE. 



The pease were grown on a land of a light clay loam character. The previous crop 

 was mixed grain. This land has never had any barn-yard manure, but marsh mud at 

 the rate of 60 two-horse loads per acre was used previous to the sowing of the mixed grain 

 crop in 1901. The ground was ploughed in the autumn and in the spring was worked 

 up with the disc, spring-tooth and smoothing harrows. Complete Fertilizer at the rate of 

 200 lbs. per acre was drilled in with the grain by means of a fertilizer sowing attach- 

 ment to the seeder. The plots were one-fortieth of an acre each, and fifty-seven varieties 

 were tested. The plots were sown May 7, with results as follows : — 



