452 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



64 VICTORIA, A. 1901' 

 EXPERIMENTS WITH BUCKWHEAT. 



Plots of one-tenth of an acre each of Silver Hull, Japanese and Grey buckwheat 

 were sown May 19. All grew, finely and were very promising, blooming profusely,. 

 and grain forming, when the cut-worms attacked them and in two days there was- 

 not a leaf or blossom left. 



MIXED GRAINS EOR FEED. 



Plots of a quarter of an acre each were sown with the following mixtures on May" 

 11, and cut when the oats were in the early dough stage : — 



Mixture No. 1. — One bushel each of oats, pease and barley. 

 Mixture No. 2. — One bushel each of oats, pease and wheat. 

 Mixture No. 3. — One bushel each of grass pea, oats and barley. 



Tons. Lbs. 



Mixture No. 1. — Yield per acre when cut 8 320 



Yield per acre when cured 3 1,560 



Mixture No. 2. — Yield per acre when cut 7 1,880 



Yield per acre when cured 3 1,120 



Mixture No. 3. — Yield per acre when cut 7 1,440 



Yield per acre when cured 3 l,oGO 



EXPERIMENTS WITH GRASSES. 



The plots sown with different varieties of Bromus in the spring of 1899, did not. 

 amount to very much this season. The wet spring which favoured other grasses and 

 clovers did not appear to suit them. 



As repvorted in 1899, Bromus Inermis made a thick sod last year, but many plants 

 were dead this spring and clover came in, and the crop although a light one was more 

 clover than Bromus Inermis. 



Bromus Schraederi. — This grass was nearly all dead when growth began in spring 

 and the crop cut off the plot was more than three-quarters clover. 



Bromus giganteus. — This was very patchy, very few stools having come through 

 the winter. Clover, however, came in freely and a small crop of hay was got from it. 



Clover Seed inoculated with Nitraghi. — One acre of clover was sown in the spring 



of 1899 with seed treated with nitragin, and oi-dinary seed clover was sown in the 



remainder of the field on three sides of it. Nitragin does not appear to add to the- 



crop or be needed in the lower mainland of British Columbia. The yield of one acre 



of the first crop from the treated seed and one acre alongside of untreated were cut and 



weighed. The weather was so shov/ery that no attempt was made to cure the clover,. 



all was put into the silo. 



Tons. Lbs. 



Weight of 1 acre, untreated 9 1,870 



Weight of 1 acre, treated 9 1,980 



The land where this crop gixiw is a gravelly loam, and as it has been in crop and 

 cultivation for some years, it was all practically alike, and the comparison may be- 

 considered a fair one. 



