23a: EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



2-3 EDWARD V!l., A. 1903 

 EXPERIMENTS WITH BUCKWHEAT. 



Five varieties of bnckwheat were grown in one fortieth acre plots, on a sandy-loam 

 soil. This land was previously in grain. It was manured in the fall with 25 one-horse 

 cart loads of stable manure, per acre. This was then ploughed under. The ground was 

 worked up in th-5 spring with the spring-tooth and smoothing harrows, and the seed 

 sown Juno 1 4. The crops obtained were as follows : — 



EXPERIMENTS WITH FIELD GRAIN. 



The land on which this grain was grown -was previously in turnips, having received 

 for this crop 30 one-horse cart loads of manure per acre ; it being the first manure and only 

 fertilizer this land had ever received. After the turnip crop was removed the land was 

 ploughed. In the spring this was worked up with the disc, spring-tooth and smoothing 

 harrows, and the seed sown May 15. The crop was harvested August 27. Each plot 

 was one acre, and produced the following yields : 



Name of Variety. 



Yield per 

 acre. 



Kosedale oats 



Sensation oats 



Mixed Grain (Barley, oats and pease 



Cream Egyptian oats 



Prolific Black Tartarian oats 



Canadian Thorpe (Barley) 



FIELD CROP OF BUCKWHEAT. 



Half of the field on which the buckwheat was grown was previously in buckwheat; 

 the other half was new land which had just been brought in and had never before had 

 a crop on it. This land is of a clay loam character, and' was ploughed in the fall of 

 1901. This spring it v/as worked up with the disc, spring-tooth and smoothing harrows, 

 and the grain was sown June 17. The land that had previously been in buckwheat was 

 fertilized with complete fertilizer at the rate of 250 lbs. per acre. The new land did 

 not o^et any fertilizer. The yields from these fields are as follows : — 



Yield per Acre. 

 Bush. Lbs. 



5 acres previously in buckwheat and fertilized 31 14 



4i acres new land and no fertilizer , 14 16 



