236 EXPiJjRIMENTAL FARMS 



2-3 EDWARD VII., A. 1903 

 Average results of a test of Twelve Varieties of Oats for the past five years. 



EXPKUIMENTS WITH BaRLEY. 



The selection of the field for this year's uniform test plots of barley was an unfor- 

 tunate one. A municipal ditch running near the field overflowed its banks during the 

 cloud-burst on June 1, and the flood of water swept the field from end to end, removing 

 the soil in some places down to the roots of the plant The grain never fully recovered, 

 the yield from most of the plots is unusually small, and so uneven that the returns are 

 not given as a correct comparison of varieties, but simply as a matter of information. 



Fifty-one varieties of barley were tested. Thirty of the six-rowed sorts and twenty- 

 one of the two-rowed. The size of the plots used for this test was one-twentieth acre. 

 The soil was a light sandy loam which had been summer fallowed. All were sown on 

 May 26 and 27 in the proportion of two bushels of seed per acre. 



Barley — Six-rowed — Test of Varikties. 



Name o. 

 Variety . 



Petschora 



Mensury 



Rennie's Imp'v'd 

 White Hulless . . 

 Black Hulless... 



Common 



Garfield 



Odessa 



Stella 



Empire 



Phoenix 



Argyle 



Pioneer 



Summit 



Nugent 



Albert 



Brome 



Claude — 



Success 



Oderbruch 



Mansfield 



Trooper 



Excelsior 



Vanguard 



Surprise 



Baxter 



Yale 



Blii«^ Ijong Head 

 Champion ... . 

 ftoyal 



Date of 

 Ripen- 

 ing. 



Sept. 

 Aug. 



1 



22 



22 



Sept. 3 99 



3 



98 



88 

 87 



be 

 1-5 



In. 

 42 

 40 

 40 

 35 

 30 

 31 



Character i Length 



of 

 Straw. 



Stiff. 



33 



33 

 23 

 36 

 29 

 29 

 22 

 22 

 27 

 24 

 31 

 29 

 22 

 24 

 28 

 30 

 32 

 23 

 27 

 25 

 32 

 22 



Weak 

 Fair .. 



Stiff.. 



Fair. 



Stiff. 



Fair. 



Stiff. 



Fair. 



Stiff. 

 Fair . 



Stiff .. . 

 Fair .. 



of 

 Head. 



In. 



4 

 4 

 4 



2^ 



3 



3 



3| 



2b 

 2 

 3 

 3 



2 



2i 



2 



3 

 3 

 3 



4 

 3 

 2i 

 3 



H 



o 



o 



3 



Weight 



of 

 Straw. 



Lbs. 



4,185 



5,945 



3,250 



4,200 



3,770 



1,360 



1,.350 



2,422 



1,275 



2,295 



1,125 



1,275 



840 



2,422 



780 



750 



825 



845 



1,050 



600 



585 



700 



730 



630 



1,620 



525 



420 



560 



1,200 



Weight 



per 

 Bushel. 



Lbs. 

 46 

 47 

 48 

 55 

 58 

 49 

 48 

 45 

 48 

 45 

 49 

 48 

 50 

 44 

 48 

 51 

 49 

 45 

 47 

 49 

 48 

 48 

 44 

 47 

 43 

 49 

 49 

 43 

 42 

 49 



Rusted. 



Slightly. 



Badly. 



Slightly. 



Badly. 



None. 



Slightly. 



Badly. 

 None. 



Slightly. 



Badly. 



None. 



Slightly. 



None. 



Slightly. 



Badly. 

 Slightly. 



Badly. 



Slightly. 



