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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



4-5 EDWARD VII., A. 1905 



The hen-house is -whitewashed several times a year. The roosts and nest boxes 

 are movable, so as to be easily cleaned and renewed, and they are given clean chafi or 

 straw on a swept floor once a week. 



EXPEEIMENTS WITH OATS. 



Forty-three varieties of oats were sown on one-fortieth of an acre plots. The soil 

 was a sandy loam, in fair condition, having been in corn the previous year and the 

 com had been planted on clover stubble with a luxuriant aftergrowth of clover turn- 

 ed under. The mountain close on the east side of the field and a fir wood on the 

 west deprived it of the early morning and evening sunshine, and perhaps on this 

 account aided the spread and growth of rust, which was more or less in evidence in 

 all the varieties, and which lessened the yield to a considerable degree. All were sown 

 April 16. 



OATS — TEST OF VARIETIES, 





Name of Variety. 



1 Golden Fleece 



2 White Giant 



3 Thousand Dollar 



4 Holstein Prolific, 



5 Irish Victor 

 G Kendal White 



7 Pense Blacl 



8 Banner, 

 9[01ive Black. 



10 Improved Li go wo. . . 



11 Buekbee's Illinois . . . 



12 Improved American . 



13 Lincoln 



14 Tartar King .' 



15 Waverley 



IG Kendal Black 



17 'Abundance 



18 Olive White 



19 Pioneer 



20 Bavarian 



21 Siberian . . 



22 American Triumph . . 



23 Pense White 



24 Wide Awake 



25 Twentieth Century . . 

 2G Joanette 



27 Black Beauty 



28 Milford White 



29'Storm King 



30,Swedish Select 



31 1 Golden Giant.. 



32 1 Golden Tartarian 



33 Scotch Potato 



34 Danish Island 



35 Swedish Probstey. . . 



36 American Beauty . . . . 



37 Mennonite 



38 Early Golden Prolific. 



39 Columbus 



40 Goldan Beauty 



41 Milford (black) 



42 Goldfinder 



43 Sensation 



Kind of 

 Head. 



Branching 



Sided 



Half sided 

 Branching 



Sided... . 

 Branching 



Sided..... 

 Branching 

 Sided-.... 

 Branching 

 Sided. ... 

 Branching 



Sided. 



Branching 

 Sided 



Branching 



e3 

 u 



Xfl 



bo 



Lbs. 



5,520 

 5,400 

 5,200 

 5,840 

 5,520 

 5,680 

 5,68) 

 5,800 

 5,840 

 5,600 

 5,400 

 5,600 

 5,920 

 5,840 

 5,800 

 5,800 

 5,360 

 5,680 

 5,520 

 5,600 

 5,600 

 5,o20 

 5,600 

 5,600 

 5,800 

 5,520 

 5,600 

 5,520 

 5,920 

 5,120 

 5,680 

 5,840 

 5,840 

 5,760 

 5,920 

 4,960 

 5,600 

 5,440 

 5,400 

 5,600 

 5,400 

 5,360 

 5,840 



Yield 



per 

 Acre, 



3 -O 



pq 1^ 



67 2 



61 16 



Gl 6 



60 20 



GO 10 



59 24 



59 14 



59 4 



58 28 



58 18 



58 8 



57 32 



57 22 



57 22 



57 2 



56 26 



56 26 



56 16 



56 16 



56 6 



55 30 



55 20 



55 10 



54 24 



54 14 



54 4 



53 28 



53 18 



52 32 



52 27 



52 22 



52 12 



51 26 



51 16 



51 6 



50 30 



50 25 



50 20 



50 10 



50 .. 



49 24 



48 28 



47 2..J 



bo 



og 



.a 

 >A 



36 



35* 



38" 



34| 



36 



36 



35| 



38 



351 



36i 



35 



34^ 



35| 



35i 



35 



34i 



36 



35^ 



35 



35 



35i 



35| 



34 



35 



34i 



36 



35 



35i 



36| 



35 



34f 



35 



35i 



36" 



36 



35 



35 



35 



36 



34i 



35 



34i 



35 



Rusted 



Slightly. 



II 

 Consid'ably. 



It 



Badly. 



Slightly. 



11 



Badly. 

 Slightly. 

 Badly. 

 Slightly. 



Badly. 



It 

 Consid'ably . 

 Badly. 

 Slightly. 

 Badly.' 

 Consid'ably . 

 Badly. 



Slightly. 



Badly. 



It 

 Consid'ably. 



Badly. 

 Consid'ably . 

 Slightly. 



Badly. 



Slightly. 



Badly. 



II 



II 



Consid'ably. 



