REPORT OF AIR. S. A. BEDFORD. 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Millets — Test of Varieties. 



361 



Variety. 



Italian or Indian May 



Golden 



Hungarian 



French White 



Japanese 



Algerian 



Pearl 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



Tons Lbs. 



480 

 1,978 



000 

 1,880 

 1,480 

 1,360 

 1,280 



bkoo:m corn and sokghum. 



One plot each of these were grown for fodder purposes. Both made a large and 

 rapid growth, but owing to the excessive rains, they did not cure well. They were 

 both sown in drills 28 inches apart ; the size of the plots was one-twentieth of an acre, 

 the soil a clay loam which had been summer-fallowed. 



Broom Corn. 



Sugar Cane or Sorghum. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH SOJA BEANS AND HORSE BEANS. 



Both of these were sown on May 19, and germinated at once ; but the Soja Beans 

 were completely destroyed by the frost of Juno 8, and the Horse Beans were uninjured. 

 They made a rapid growth in spite of the drought, and when cut on September 17, 

 they were well loaded with beans, nearly ripe. 



The land was summer-fallowed. The size of the plots was one-fortieth of an acre 

 <;ach. 



