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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



64 VICTORIA, A. 1901 

 Tlie first sowing was made June 6. The results obtained were as follows : — 



Flax, 



Date 



of 

 Sowing. 



Date 



of 



Ripening. 



Number 



of 



Daj's 



Maturing , 



No. 1, 80 lbs. per acre June G 



No. 1, 40 M „ 



No. 2, 80 



No. 2, 40 ,t „ 



No. 3, 80 „ M , 



No. 3, 40 M ,t 



No. 4, 80 ■. 



No. 4, 40 



6.. 

 13.. 

 13.. 



20.. 

 20.. 



27.. 

 27.. 



91 

 91 



88 

 88 

 88 

 88 

 85 

 85 



Weight of 



Straw 

 Per Acre. 



Yield 



l^er 

 Acre. 



Lbs. 



4,280 



3,260 



3,880 



4,200 



3,460 



3,420 



4,280 



3,620 



Bush. 

 15 

 13 

 12 

 11 

 12 

 10 

 11 

 12 



Lbs 



32 



48 



24 



8 



4 



8 



Weight 



fier 

 Bushel. 



Lbs. 

 52i 

 53 

 53 

 54 

 52i 

 53' 

 50 

 51 



EXPEEIMENTS WITH MILLETS. 



The land for these plots was a clay loam, and had as a previous crop potatoes. It 

 was manured in the fall of 189S for the potatoes at the rate of 25 one-horse cartloads 

 of stable manure per acre, and potato fertilizer at the rate of 500 pounds per acre 

 was also applied when the potatoes were planted. 



The land was ploughed after the potatoes were removed and was worked up the 

 following spring with the disc, spring-tooth and smoothing harrows ; no fertilizer of 

 any kind was used. The seed was sown with the seed drill June 14, and the crop 

 harvested September 15. Seven varieties were grown in plots of one fortieth acre 

 each. The following table gives the yield per acre of green crop cut : — 



Millets. 



SPECIAL EXPERIMENTS WITH FERTILIZEES. 



As stated in my last annual report, these experiments were laid out for the purpose 

 of ascertaining the relative value of the fertilizers commonly used for field crops of 

 various kinds. 



The plots were one-eighth acre each, 38xl43| feet, for each kind of fertilizer 

 used. The series of plots were again subdivided into ten strips 14 feet wide each, 

 running lengthwise O'ver all the different fertilizer plots, on which ten different kinds 

 of crops were sown, namely, potatoes, mangels, turnips, carrots, corn, mixed grain, 

 oats, ])ease, barley and wheat, making in all 140 plots ; a margin of 2 feet was left 

 between each plot and 1 foot between each crop plot. 



Two plots were left without any fertilizer as check plots. Each of the crops 

 were sown at about the same time as the uniform test plots of the particular crop, 

 with the same nmount of Feed per acre and were cultivated in the same manner. The 

 crop of pease was destroyed by the pea aphis and no record was obtained. The follow- 

 ing table gives the yield per acre for the other crops. The quanl'ty and kinds of ferti- 

 lizers used are applied each year. This is the second year of the test : — 



