360 



EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



5-6 EDWARD VII., A. 1906 

 COMPARISON OF FIELD LOTS OF WHEAT FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS. 



Below will be found dates of seeding and ripening, number of days maturing, and 

 yield of Red Fife and four of the early cross-bred wheats for 1905, and also the aver- 

 ages for the last five years. The five varieties have been grown each year in field lots, 

 under the same conditions, except that the seeding could not in all cases be done on 

 the same day. 



SPRING WHEAT — TEST OF FERTILIZERS. 



Six plots of l-40th acre each were sown with Red Fife wheat on May 2, with hoe 

 drill, at the rate of li bushels per acre. Soil clay loam. 



