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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



64 VICTORIA, A. 1901 



Wheat- -Field and Acre I>ots. 



The Eed Fife and Percy on sod of natiye grass were both damaged by gophers. 

 The root land mentioned above was ploughed 6 inches deep in fall of 1899. The 

 sod had been broken and back-set in summer of 1899, 



EXPERTMEXT WITH SPELTZ WHEAT. 



A test was made with this variety of bald wheat, in which the husk adheres 

 closely to the kernel. It was sown on clay loam, April 13, and cut September 10. 

 The time to mature was 149 days. Yield of straw, 2,000 pounds ; of grain, 22 bushels 

 per acre; weight per measured bushel, 43 i pounds. 



TEST OF BLUE-STONE AS A PREVENTIVE OF SMUT IN WHEAT. 



As the efficacy of blue-stone as a preventive of smut in spring wheat has been 

 clearly demonstrated in previous years, this test was made to find if the length of 

 time the seed is allowed to remain in the solution, has any effect on the result. Very 

 smutty Eed Fife seed was used. 



TEST OF FERTILIZERS. 



Various statements having been made as to the stimulating effect of certain ferti- 

 lizers on the young grain plants, if sown with or shortly after the seed, six plots 

 of summer-fallow, of one-fortieth of an acre each, well sheltered from winds by 

 maple hedges, were chosen and sown on April 18, with Eed Fife wheat, by drill, at 

 the rate of li bushels per acre, and treated as per statement below. 



It will be noticed that the plots treated with a mi.xture of the fertilizers gave 

 slightly the better yield, but at no time while the grain was standing was the effect 

 of any of the fertilizers at all apparent. 



