350 



EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



64 VICTORIA, A. 1901 



FIELD PLOTS OF BARLEY. 

 (All sown on summer fallow ; soil, clay loam.) 



I 



Name of Variety. 



Trooper 

 Bolton . 

 Royal, . 

 Beaver. 



Size 



of 



Plot. 



acre. 



Date 



of 



Sowing. 



May 15. 



„ 15. 



II 15. 



II 15. 



Yield 



per 

 Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



15 



15 10 



35 11 



33 3 



TEST OF SMUT PREVENTIVES IN BARLEY. 



This grain has proven very difficult of treatment with bluestone. Formalin gives 

 better results, but so far has not proved a complete success. 



Both the Canadian Thorpe and Odessa barley, used for seed, were very smutty. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH PEASE. 



Fifty-nine varieties of pease were sown, but two of them, viz., Wisconsin Blue and 

 Grass pea were destroyed by cut-worm; thirteen of the other varieties were also more 

 or less injured from the same cause, the last ten in the list being very much injured. 

 With these exceptions, pease have escaped injury, and the returns are nearly equal to 

 an average crop. 



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

 a rich, moist clay loam, summer-fallowed. All were sown between April 21 and 23. 



