REPORT OF MR. R. ROBERTSON. 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



CORN SOWN IN EOWS AT DIFFERENT DISTANCES. 



The experiments carried on last year with three varieties of corn, Champion 

 White Pearl, Longfellow and Selected Leaming, by sowing the rows at different 

 distances apart, to find out which distance will give the largest yield per acre, were 

 this year continued. 



The land on which these were grown was the previous year in pease, having been 

 ploughed in the fall of 1899, and manured and worked up the following spring. Stable 

 manure, at the rate of thirty one-horse cartloads per acre, was spread and ploughed 

 under. The ground was worked up, and the seed so^\t;i with the seed drill June 13. 

 The crop was cut and weighed October 4. The yield per acre was calculated from a 

 plot of one-fortieth acre, as follows : — 



• CORN AT DIFFERENT DISTANCES APART. 



Name of Variety. 



Longfellow. 



Selected Leaming. 



Champion White Pearl. 



FIELD CROPS OF CORN. 



The land on which the field corn was grown was similar, and received the same 

 treatment, as that on which the uniform test plots were grown, being a continuation 

 of the same field. It received twenty-five one-horse cartloads of barn-yarn manure, 

 and 200 pounds of complete fertilizer per acre. The corn was sown in rows 3 feet 

 apart, with the seed drill, and the fertilizer was drilled in by allowing the fertilizer 

 attachment to run when sowing the corn. 



The seed was sown June 8. Two varieties were grown in one-half acre plots, and 

 five varieties in one-quarter acre plots. The following table gives the yields per acre, 

 and the condition of the crop when cut : — 



FIELD CORN. 



Name of Variety. 



\-Acre Plots. 



Longfellow . 



Red Cob Ensilage 



\-Acre Plots. 



Compton'a Early 



Extra Early Huron 



Cloud's Early Yellow 



Angel of Midnight 



Canada White Flint. 



16— 19i 



Condition when Cut. 



Glazed. 

 Early milk. 



Glazed. 

 Soft glazed. 

 Early milk. 

 Glazed. 

 Early milk 



