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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



64 VICTORIA, A. 1901 



The actual weight of Speltz, per acre was 2,740 pounds. 

 The actual weight of Red Fife per acre was 1,380 pounds. 



TEST OF SMUT PKEVENTIVES FOR WHEAT. 



Very satisfactory results have been obtained with bluestone (Copper sulphate) for 

 this purpose, but this article has increased in value considerably during the past year 

 and in some parts of the province has been difficult to obtain. This season a test has 

 been made with Formalin, and, as will be seen from the accompanying table, the 

 results have been very satisfactory. Massel Powder has also given good results. 



The wheat used for seed was a very smutty sample. 



A TEST OF FERTILIZERS FOR THE GROWING OF WHEAT. 



Seven plots were set part for this test, but the results have been somewhat unsatis- 

 factory, attributable no doubt to the unfavourable season ; as no rain fell for some 

 time after the fertilizers were applied they were in all probability blown off the land 

 before the plants had time to assimilate them. 



No 1 was an outside plot somewhat exposed to injury from drifting soil, hence 

 the small returns from it. 



The size of the plots was one-fortieth acre, the soil a rich clay loam which had been 

 Bummer-f allowed ; all were sown on April 21, and all harvested on August 21. 



The variety of wheat sown on all the plots was Red Fife, 1^ busliels of seed per 

 acre. 



