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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



Oats — Test op Varieties. 



64 VICTORIA, A. 1901 



Name of Variety. 



1 Improved American . 



2 Early Blossom 



Improved Ligowo . . . 



Wide-awake 



Banner 



Abundance 



Bavarian 



Early Archangel .... 

 Bonanza 



Kind of 

 Head. 



Branching 



Sided... 



Branching 



-I 

 o =« 



ho 



Lbs. 



4,600 

 4,700 

 4,700 

 4,820 

 5,380 

 5,180 

 4,700 

 5,080 

 4,200 



Yield 



I)er 

 Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



76 

 64 

 61 

 61 

 59 

 58 

 57 

 56 

 32 



16 

 24 

 26 

 6 

 14 

 28 

 22 

 16 

 12 





Lbs. 



37 



35 



37i 



38^ 



33 



34 



32A 



39^ 



41i 



The other fifty varieties which were resown June 15 were a complete failure owing to winds, dry 

 reather and frost. 



Oats — Acre and Field Lots. 



Fifteen varieties were sown from April 26 to May 1 on clay loam, six of which 

 •were blown out and had to be re-sown. Frost on September 13 rendered these fields 

 useless except for feed, of which a very heavy crop was secured. 



With the exception of one field of 9^ acres of Banner oats, which was protected 

 by trees and the railway bank, all the fields not entirely killed, were more or less 

 thinned by winds and produced very small crops. 



Name of Variety. 



Size 



of 



Plot. 



Acres. 



Banner 



American Beauty. 

 Banner. 

 Improved Ligowo 



Wide-awake 



Abundance 



Siberian O. A. C . 



New Zealand 



Thousand Dollar 

 Bavarian 



Holfitein Prolific . 

 White Schonen. . . 



Bonanza 



Oderbruch 



Columbus 



Golden Beauty . . . 



2 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 1 



Date of 

 Sowing. 



Date of 

 Ripening. 



April 26. 



May 1. 



April 30. 



.1 30. 



„ 30. 



„ 30. 



May 1. 



1. 



1. 



1. 



Sown. 



April 30 

 ., 30. 

 „ 30. 



May 1. 



April 30. 



May 1. 



CO bo 



o tS 



o . 



Aug. 10.. 



M 13.. 



,. 13.. 

 3.. 



„ 14.. 



.. 14.. 



II 14.. 



H 14., 



H 14., 



M 11. 



Re-sown. 



June 15. 



II 15. 



.1 15. 



M 15. 



M 15. 



M 15. 



106 

 104 

 105 

 95 

 106 

 106 

 105 

 105 

 105 

 102 



In. 



51 

 43 

 41 

 43 

 38 

 37 

 38 

 45 

 40 

 35 



Charac- 

 ter of 

 Straw. 



be® 



Strong. . 



Medium 



Strong. . 



It . . 



Medium 



In. 

 9 



n 



7 

 7 



8i 

 7i 

 11 

 8 

 7 



Kind of 

 Head. 



Branching 





Lbs. 





S 



m 



55 

 30 



XI 



5,100 

 4,000 

 4,100|27 

 4,340!25 



23 

 23 

 22 



3,600 

 3,330 

 3,200 

 3,680119 

 3,040 16 

 2,400 15 



5pQ 



Lbs 



26 

 2 

 18 

 22 

 22 

 6 

 28 

 14 

 12 



•Frozen on September 13 ; cat for fodder. 



