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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



5-5 EDWARD VI!., A. 1905 

 Flax — Test of Sowing Different Quantities of Seed Per Acre. 



FLA.X — Test of Varieties. 



Yellow Seeded 



Riga 



Common 



White ricwering. . 

 Improved Russian 

 Common Flax . . . . 



54i 



54i 

 55$ 

 54| 

 53| 



HAY CROP. 



While a good yield of hay was obtained from Brorne and Western Eye grass the 

 past season, it was not so heavy as in former years, from the fact that all the fields 

 have been in hay for several years. The various sorts of Alfalfa came through the 

 winter quite safely, and gave good yields. Red clover was half killed, the balance being 

 left to ripen and cut for seed. Considerable Alfalfa was also cut for seed. 



Meadow Fescue, sown in 1904, gave a fair return. 



Kentucky Blue grass, and Orchard grass (two-thirds of which was a mixture of 

 other sorts), gave good crops. 



Alsike sown in 1904, did not stand the winter. 



From the past season's tests, favourable hopes are entertained that many varieties 

 of grasses that were all failures in the early years of the farm may yet prove success- 

 ful in the future. 



In May last, the Agricultural Department at Washington sent to this farm alfalfa 

 seed for sowing, which had been obtained from the following places : Utah, Northern 

 Montana, Southern Montana, Peru, Nebraska, New York, Turkestan, Minnesota 

 (Grimm), and some first quality commerical seed- These were all sown in plots vary- 

 ing in size according to quantity of seed of each sort received. They all germinated, 

 and madie a vigorous growth during the season. 



Seed of Red clover and Alfalfa, both inoculated and untreated, were sent up from 

 the Central Experimenal Farm, Ottawa, for triaL These made a vigorous growth, 

 and except going over them with a mower, they were not cut. The inoculated alfalfa 

 showed a somewhat stronger growth than the untreated seed, but the two clover plots 

 were almost equally good. . 



