REPORT OF MR. ANGUS MACKAY 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



FOLK YEARS TKST OF FALLOW AGAIXST STUBBLE FOR GROWING WHEAT 



In this test Bed Fife wheat was used. 



415 



Difference in four years in favour of fall«v, 47 bushels C lbs. 

 Or an average of 11 bu'^hels 46 lbs. per year. 



SPRING WHEAT. 



TEST OF FERTILIZERS. 



Six plots of 1-40 acre each were sown on May 16 with Red Fife wheat, with lioe 

 drill, at the rate of li bushels per acre. 



Although very little difference could be seen in the growth of straw, there was 

 considerable variation in both straw and grain when threshed. The land was fallowed 

 the previous year, the soil being clay loam. 



SPRING WHEAT — TEST OF FERTILIZERS. 



NaniK of Variety. 



Plot No. 1— Nitrate of soda, 100 lbs. per acre (half sown 

 when grain was 2 in. high, balance when 6 in. high). . 



Plot No. 2 — Nitrate of soda, 200 ibs. per acre (half sown 

 when grain was 2 in. high, balance when fi in. high). . 



Plot No. 3— Superphosphate No. 1, 400 lbs. per acre 

 (sown before grain and harrowed 



Plot No. 4— Check plot, unfertilized . . . . 



Plot- No. 5— Muriate of potash, 200 lbs. per acre (sown 

 before grain and harrowed) 



Plot No. G— Superphosphate No. 1, 200 lbs. per acre ; 

 muriate of potash, 100 lbs. per acre ; nitrate of soda, 

 100 lbs. per acre (half .sown lacfore grain and harrowed, 

 balance when the grain was 2 in. high) 



Character 



of 



Straw. 



Strong 



a> 



-a 



al en 



= .a 



28 40 

 23 .. 



29 20 

 2G 20 



29 



31 40 



COMPARISON OF RESULTS FOR THREE YE.\RS OF FERTILIZER TEST. 



