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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



4-5 EDWARD VII., A. 1905 



OATS — TEST OF VARIETIES. 



Name of Variety. 



Improved American. . 



Goldea Beauty 



Danish Island 



Banner ■. . . 



Abundance 



Lincoln . 



Siberian 



Early Golden Prolific. 



Wide Awake 



American Triumph . . . 



Waverley . . 



Buckbee's Illinois 



White Giant 



Golden Fleece 



Scotch Potato 



Columbus 



Thousand Dollar 



American Beauty 



Golden Giant 



Olive White 



Bavarian 



Golden Tartarian 



Irish Victor 



GoUlfinder 



Kendal White 



Black Beauty 



•loanette 



Twentieth Century . . . 



Pioneer, 



Tartar King 



Pense Black 



Milford White 



Kendal Black 



Milford Black 



Olive Black 



Pense White 



*Holstein Prolific 



Storm King 



*Mennonite .. 



^Sensation. . ._ 



*Im proved Ligowc. . . 

 *Swedish Select 





11 



8 

 9 

 9 

 9 

 8 

 8 

 9 

 8 

 9 

 9 

 9 

 9 



11 



10 



8 



9 



9 



11 



9 



9 



12 



9 



10 



10 



9 



8 



9 



8 



8 



9 



10 



10 



9 



10 



9 



9 



9 



9 



9 



9 



8 



Rusted. 



Slightly. 

 Considerably. 



Slightly. 



tl 

 Considerably. 



Slightly. 



II 

 None. 

 Slightly. 



II 

 Considerably. 



Slightly. 



II 

 None. 

 Slightly. 

 Considerably. 

 Slightly. 

 Considerably. 

 Slightly. 

 Considerably. 



Slightly. 

 Considerably. 



It 

 None. 

 Considerably. 



Slightly. 



Considerably. 



Slightly. 



Considerably. 



Badly." 



•Injured by Blackbirds. 



FIELD PLOTS OF OATS. 



The remarks given under the head of field plots of wheat apply to oats also, only 

 two fields of this grain were left uninjured by the flood. 



One field of Banner oats, 11 acres in extent, soil a clay loam, summer-fallowed, 

 was sown on May 13 and cut on Augvist 23. It gave a return of 73 bushels and 27 

 lbs. per acre, weighing 37 lbs. per bushel. There was very little rust and no smut in 



this field. 



A field of American Beauty oats, 5 acres in extent, soil a clay loam, summer-fal- 

 lowed, was sown on May 13 and cut on September 1. It gave a return of 81 bushels 

 and 2 lbs. per acre, weighing 38 lbs. per bushel. There was very little rust and no 

 Bmut in this field. 



