REPORT OF MR. AXGU8 5IACKA7 



323 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



In the above test the selected seed used was hand picked when ripe and before 

 being cut in 1901, and thoroughly cleaned by mill ; the well-cleaned seed was our best 

 Ked Fife, run twice through tlie fanning mill and was a large, plump sample. The 

 small seed was what was taken out of the well-cleaned seed. 



The seed was sown on l-20th acre plots of fallowed land, by hoe-drill, at the rate 

 of 1 1 bushels per acre on April 1 9. 



SPRING WHEAT. 



TEST OF FERTILIZERS. 



Six plots of l-40th acre each were sown May 12. Five of these were treated with 

 artificial manures and the sixth used as a check-plot. They were sown with Red Fife 

 Wheat, by hoe-drill, at the rate of li bushels per acre. 



Name of Variety. 



Plot No. 1— 



Nitrate of soda, 100 lbs. per acre (half sown when 

 grain was 2 inches high, balance when G inches 



high) 



Plot No. 2- 



Nitrate of soda, 200 lbs. per acre (half sown when 

 prain was 2 inches high, balance when G inches 



high) .... 



Plot No. 3 - 

 Superphosphate, No. 1, 400 lbs. per acre (sown 



before grain and harrowed) 



Plot No. 4- 



Chcck-plot. Unfertilized 



Plot No. 5— 



Muriate of jiotash, 200 lbs. per acre (sown before 



grain and harrowed) 



Plot No. 6— 



Superphosphate No. 1, 200 lbs. per acre ; muriate 

 of ix)tash, 100 lbs. per acre ; nitrate of soda, 

 100 lbs. per acre (half sown before grain and 

 harrowed, and the balance when the grain was 

 2 inches high) 



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to 



In. 



45 



47 



.. 28 108; 44 



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Strong. 



27 



28 



107 



108 



44 



44 



13 

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to 



1-5 



In. 



,02 



J2 



fco 



Yielfl 



per 



Acre. 



Lbs. Bush. Lbs. 



.3,lG0i 28 



.3,880 .30 40 



3,200 26 

 .3,700 29 



3,1G0 



32 



40 



3,200 30 40 





Lbs. 



61 



62 



61.\ 



20 I Gli 



63 



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SPELTZ. 



Sown on fallow by hoe-drill, at the rate of 2 bushels per acre. 



One-fortieth acre. — Sown April 19. Ripe August 28. Days to mature, 131. 

 Length of straw, 42 inches. Straw, weak. Length of head, 2 inches. Bearded. 

 Weight of straw, 3,180 lbs. per acre. Yield, 36*20 bushels per acre. 



One acre. — Sown May 12. Ripe August 28. Days to mature, 108. Weight of 

 8t aw, 3,000 lbs. per acre. Yield, 34 bushels 10 lbs. per acre. 



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