REPORT OF TEE DIRECTOR 



33 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



BARLEY PLOTS. 



The quantity of seed soTvn per acre on the barley plots was 2 bushels in 1889 to 

 1891, 11 bushels in 1892 and 1893, and 2 bushels from 1894 to 1905 inclusive. Two- 

 rowed barley was used for seed throughout until 1902, when Mensury, a six-rowed sort, 

 was tried. The varieties used were as follows: 1889 to 1891, Saale; 1892, Goldthorpe; 

 1893, Duck-bill; and in 1894 to 1901, Canadian Thorpe, a selected form of the Duck- 

 bill. Since 1902 Mensury has been sown. In 1905 it was sown May 4, and was har- 

 vested on July 30. 



TABLE IL 



EXPERIMENTS WITH FERTILIZERS ON PLOTS OF BARLEY. 



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Fertilizers applied each year from 1889 to 

 1898 or 1899. No fertilizers used from 

 that time to 1905. Clover sown in 1899 

 and each year since with the grain and 

 ploughed under in the autumn. In 1905 

 fertilizers again applied as in 1898. Clover 

 discontinued. 



Barn-yard manure, well rotted, 15 tons pei- 

 acre each year to 1898, inclusive. No 

 manure used from 1899 to 1905, In 1905 

 15 tons per acre again used 



Barn-yard manure, fresh, 15 tons per acrt 

 each year to 1898, inclusive. No manure 

 used from 1899 to 1905. In 1905 15 tons 

 per acre again used ... 



Unmanured from the beginning 



Mineral pho3phate,untreated, finely ground, 

 500 lbs, per acre, used each year fron 

 1888 to 1897, uaclusive. In 1898 and 189'. 

 a similar weight of the Thomas' phosphati 

 was used. No fertilizer used from 190( 

 to 1905. In 1905 fertilizer again used a: 

 in 1899 



Mineral phosphate,untreated, finelyground 

 500 lbs., nitrate of soda, 200 lbs. per acre, 

 used each year from 1888 to 1897, in 

 elusive. In 1898 and 1899 500 lbs. of th( 

 Thomas' phosphate was used in place o! 

 the mineral phosjihate. No fertilizer;- 

 used from 1900 t > 1905. In 1905 fertilizers 

 again used as in 1899 



Barn-yard manure, partly rotted and ac- 

 tively fermenting, 6 tons per acre ; 

 mineral phosphate, untreated, finely 

 ground, 500 lbs. per acre composted toge- 

 ther, intimately mixed and allowed to 

 heat for several days before using, applied 

 each year from 1888 to 1897, inclusive. 

 In 1898 500 lbs. of the Thomas' phosphate 

 was used in place of the mineral phos- 

 phate. No fertilizers used from 1899 to 

 1905. In 1905 fertilizers again used as in 

 1898 



Mineral phosphate, untreated, finely ground, 

 500 lbs. nitrate of soda, 200 lbs. ; wood 

 ashes, unleached, 1,000 lbs. per acre, used 

 each year from 1888 to 1897, inclusive. 

 In 1898 and 1899, 500 lbs, of the Thomas' 

 phosphate was used in place of the min- 

 eral phosphate. No fertilizers used from 

 1900 to 1905. In 1905 fertilizers again 

 used as in 1899 



16—3 



Average Yield 



FOR 



Sixteen Years. 



Yield 



of 

 Grain. 



Per acre. 



Bush. lbs. Lbs. 



Yield 



of 

 Straw. 



Per acre 



35 45?B 



35 32 

 14 3 



16 2,% 



21 ISi", 



3047 



3198 

 1530 



1519 



2193 



29 3}| 



26 39iJ 



2416 



2401 



17th Season, 1905. 



Variety, 



Mensury. 



Yield 



of 

 Grain. 



Per acre. 



Bush, lbs 



56 2 



59 38 

 22 34 



31 22 



37 4 



54 8 



47 34 



Yield 



of 

 Straw. 



Average Yield 



FOR 



Seventeen Years. 



Per acre 



Lbs. 



2960 



3010 

 1790 



Yield 



of 

 Grain. 



Per acre. 



Bush. lbs. 



37 51 



37 



15 



4tV 

 lOf 



2870 



3070 



3220 



16 46 



22 10 



30 2GJ? 



3170 28 2\\ 2446 



Yield 



of 

 Straw. 



Per acre 



Lbs. 



3042 



3187 

 L'^45 



1598 



2245 



24C3 



