REPORT OF MR. ANGUS MACKA7. 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



TEST OF FORMALIN AND MASSEL POWDER FOR THE PREVENTION OP SMUT IN OATS. 



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The seed tised in this test was considerably affected with smut and the result of 

 the test indicates that to be entirely effectual, the solution of Formalin shoidd be 

 applied to the seed for at least one hour. 



Where the Massel powder and lime were used, no smutty heads were found. When 

 the smutty grain was soaked in Formalin for one hour, the treatment was equally 

 effective. 



Seed. 



Doncaster Prize 



Bavarian 



Con- 

 dition. 



Smutty 



Treatment. 



Fonnalin 4^ oz. to 10 galls, water ; soaked 1 hour 



It II II II 15 minutes . . . 



II II II II 5 II . , . 



II 6 II II II 5 II . . . 



II 9 II 11 sprinkled 



Check plot ; untreated 



Massel powder 4 oz., lime 2 lbs., water 2 galls. ; sprinkled 



EXPEKIMENTS WITH BARLEY. 



Thirty varieties of 6-rowed and twenty varieties of 2-rowed barley were sown on 

 one-twentieth of an acre plots of fallow-land, on May 7 and 8, by hoe-drill, two inches 

 deep, at the rate of two bushels seed i>er acre. Soil, clay loam. 



All came up well and were several inches high when struck by successive winds 

 and dry weather, which completely destroyed every plot. On June 4, a number of the 

 weakest were re-sown, and when the balance had succumbed on June 13, the re-seeding 

 was completed. The late sown, however, did not ripen, and was cut for fodder, of 

 which an immense crop was secured. Under the circumstances these results give no 

 reliable indication as to the relative productiveness of varieties. 



Barley — Two-Rowed — Test of Varieties. 



JO 



a 



Name of Variety. 



Sidney . 



Nejiean 



Kirby 



Clifford 



Dunham 



Fulton 



.Jarvis 



Canadian Thorpe 



Date of 



Sowing, 



May 7 & 8. 



Re-sown. 



June 



4.. 

 4.. 

 4.. 

 4.. 

 4.. 

 4.. 

 4.. 

 4.. 



Date of 

 Ripening. 



Sept. 18.. 



11 17.. 



,1 18.. 



,1 18.. 



.. 18.. 



.1 18.. 



II 18.. 



„ 12.. 



55 r-r 



c £ 



106 



105 

 106 

 106 

 106 

 106 

 106 

 100 



o . 

 bpi 



In. 



34 



37 

 35 

 42 

 40 

 40 

 44 

 30 



Charac- 

 ter of 

 Straw. 



Strong. . 

 II . . 

 Medium 

 Strong. . 

 Medium 

 Strong. . 



be ® 



CM 



In. 



3i 



4 

 3 



31 



6 



S 



o 



Lbs. 



3,600' 

 .3,880, 

 3,180 

 4,080 

 3,800 

 3,9401 

 4,200 

 3,280; 



Yield 



per 



Acre. 



P2 

 34 

 28 

 27 

 20 

 20 

 20 

 15 

 15 



J3 



8 

 16 

 24 

 40 

 20 



5p5 



^ 



Lbs. 

 58 



46^ 

 51 



The remaining twelve varieties, re-sown June 13, were a complete failure, owing to winds, dry 

 weather and frost. 



