JiEFORT OF MR. ANGUS MACKAT. 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Sked, Red Fife — Test of Fertilizers. 



Name of Variety. 



Plot No. 1. 



Nitrate of soda, 100 lbs. per acre. (^ sown 

 when grain was 2 in. high, balance when 

 6 in. high) 



Plot No. 2. 



Nitrate of soda, 200 lbs. per acre. {| so-\vn 

 when grain was 2 in. high, balance when 

 6 in. high) * 



Plot No. 3. 



Superphosphate No. 1, 400 lbs. per acre. 

 (Sown before grain and harrowed) 



Plot No. 4. 



Check-plot. Unfertilized . 



Plot No. 5. 



Muriate of potash, 200 lbs. per acre. (Sown 

 before grain and harrowed) 



Plot No. 6. 



Superphosphate No. 1, 200 lbs. per acre, ^ 

 Muriate of potash, 100 n n 



Nitrate of soda, 100 n <i 



(^ sown before grain and harrowed, 

 balance when grain was 2 in. high.) 



to 



Aug. 16. 



Aug. 16. 



Aug. 16. 

 Aug. 16. 



Aug. 16. 

 Aug. 16. 



? be 



O ci 



120 



120 



120 



120 



120 



120 



bo 



a 



In. 



35 



34 



31 



31 



33 



30 





Strong. 



a ° 



In. 



3i 



3| 



3i 



3i 



3i 



13 

 e 



a 



Bald. 



O c3 



bo 



Lbs. 



1760 



1760 



1600 30 



Yield 



per 

 Acre. 



Bush. Lba. 



27 20 



27 20 



1740 



1960 



1860 



27 40 



30 40 



32 2a 



EXPERIMENTS WITH OATS. 



Fifty-nine varieties of oats were sown on fallow-land on May 1 by hoe-drill, 3 

 inches deep, at the rate of 2^ bushels per acre; plots, one-twentieth acre; soil, clay 

 loam. 



All were completely destroyed by wind and dry weather, and on June 4 nine of 

 the most severely injured, at that time, were resown. On June 13 the balance had 

 entirely succumbed and were re-seeded. 



Had all been resown on June 4 good returns would, no doubt, have been secured 

 from all the varieties, but the greater number of plots had been allowed to remain 

 until the 13th in the hope that they would recover. The heavy winds and drouth, 

 hov\-ever, continued and re-seeding had to be done, but it proved too late, as the plots 

 ■^»ere uncut when frost came on September 13 and were rendered useless except for 

 fodder, of which, however, a heavy and fine crop was secured. Five pounds of twine 

 per acre was required to bind the crop. Under the circumstances these results give 

 no reliable indication as to the relative productiveness of the varieties. 



