REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



BAELEY PLOTS. 



The quantity of seed sown per acre on the harlcy plots was 2 bashels in 1889 to 

 1891, li bushels in 1802 and 1893, and 2 bushels from 1891 to 1901, 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 1891 to 1901, Canadian Thorpe, a selected form of the Duck- 

 bill. Since 1902 Mensury has been sown. In 1901 it was sown May 6, and was har- 

 vested on July CO. 



TABLE II. 

 EXPERIMENTS WITH FERTILIZERS OX PLOTS OF BARLEY. 



o 

 d 



Fertilizers applied each year from 1889 to 

 1898 or 1899. No fertilizers used since . 

 Clover sowTi in 1899 and each year since 

 with the grain and ploughed under in the 

 autumn. 



Average Yield 



lOK 



FiFTEEX Years. 



Yield 



of 

 Grain. 



Yield 



of 

 Straw. 



Per acre. 



Barn-yard manure, well rotted, 15 tons per 

 acre each year to 1898, inclusive. No 

 manure has been applied since then 



Barn-yard manure, fresh, 15 tons per acre 

 each year to 1898, inclusive. No manure 

 has been applied since then 



Unmanured from the beginning 



Mineral phosphate, untreated, finely ground, 

 500 lbs. per acre, used each year from 

 1888 to 1897, inclusive. In 1898 and 1899 

 a similar weight of the Thomas' phosphate 

 was used. No fertilizers have been appli- 

 ed since then 



5! Mineral phosphate, untreated, finely ground, 

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

 used each year from 1888 to 1897, in- 

 clusive. In 1898 and 1899 500 lbs. of the 

 Thomas' phosphate was used in place of 

 the mineral phosphate. No fertilizers 



have been applied since then 



6 Barn-yard manure, partly rotted and ac- 

 tively fermenting, 6 tons ])er aero ; 

 mineral phosphate, untreated, finely 

 ground, 500 lbs. per acre composted to- 

 gether, 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' phos- 

 y)h£.te was used in place of the mineral 

 phosphate. No fertilizers have been 



applied since then 



/ Mineral phosphate, untreated, finely ground, 

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

 aslies, 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 have been 

 applied since then 



Bush, lbs. 



35 25^3 



I 



16th Seas XV, 1904. 

 Variety, 

 Mexsury. 



Average Yield 



FOR 



Sixteen- YKAi;i^. 



15 44/; 



21 lOA 



28 26^ 



3,060 



35 14H 3,234 

 14 28H 1,537 



1,510 



2,219 



2.396 



26 1211; 2,377 



