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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



FIELD PLOTS OF OATS. 



64 VICTORIA, A. 1901 



The first three rarieties were sown on backsetting, the remainder on siiuuner- 

 fallow. The soil was a clay loam : — 



Name of Variei\-. 



Bavarian 



Golden Giant 



American Beauty 



Abundance 



Early Golden Prolific. . . 



Joanette 



California Prolific Black. 



Size of 

 Plot. 



3 acres. 



5 



5 



33 

 2i 

 1 

 1 



Date of 



Sowing. 



May 3. 

 5. 



Date of 

 Ripening. 



Aug. 21. 



M 24. 



.. 21. 



., 24. 



., 24. 



,. 26. 



„ 26. 



No. of 



Days 



Maturing. 



110 

 111 

 108 

 108 

 108 

 109 

 109 



Yield per 

 Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



44 

 53 

 40 

 32 

 51 

 22 

 36 



18 

 15 

 2 

 4 

 6 

 9 

 1 



TEST OF SMUT PREVENTH'ES FOR OATS. 



The seed for this test was a very smutty sample, as is evident from the resultant 

 61 per cent of smut from the untreated seed. 



Formalin has again proven itself a very useful preparation for this purpose and 

 its general use, each year, would save thousands of dollars to the province. 



Massel powder does not appear to be of much value as a preventive of smut in 

 oats. 



Name of Variety. 



Doncaster Prize. 



How Treated. 



Not treated 



Steeped 5 minutes, 4^ oz. formalin to 10 galls, water 



1. 15 M 4| ,. 10 1. 



It 1 hour 4h n 10 II 



Sprinkled, 4^ oz. formalin to 10 galls, water 



9 M 10 



Treated with Massel powder ; . . . . 



EXPERIMENTS WITH BARLEY. 



This grain, owing to its having been sown later than either wheat or oats, did 

 not suffer so much from di'ought or hail, the principal loss was from drifting Boil, 

 the tender foliage of barley making it particularly susceptible to injury from this 

 cause. 



The size of the plots used for this test was one-twentieth of an acre, the soil 

 was a sandy loam, summer-fallowed, and the plots were all sown on May 17 and 

 18. Forty-nine varieties were included in this test, nineteen of the two-rowed barley 

 end thirty of the six-rowed. 



