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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



pounds, as with the ordinary threshing the chaff is not separated from the kernels 

 and cannot well be compared with the other sorts of wheat which are threshed clean. 

 Following are the yields obtained : — 



Emmer and Spelt — Test of Varieties. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH PEASE. 



Twenty-four varieties of pease were sown in uniform plots of one-fortieth acre 

 each on a clay loam soil that had been in roots the previous year (1905). The land 

 was ploughed in the fall and worked up in the spring with the disc, spring-tooth and 

 smoothing harrows, and sown on May 22 with the seed drill seeder at the rate of from 

 2 to 3 bushels per acre. This ground was seeded down to clover and Timothy at the 

 rate of 7 lbs. Mammoth Red clover, 3 lbs. Alsike clover and 12 lbs. timothy seed per 

 acre. The following yields per acre were obtained : — 



Pease. — Test of Varietiks. 





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2 

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10 

 11 

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 24 



Name of Variety. 



Paragon 



Prince 



Prince Albert 



Victoria 



Early Britain 



Gregory 



Pearl 



White Marrowfat 



Duke 



Wisconsin Blue 



(iolden Vine 



Black Eyed Marrowfat. 



Pictou . . . 



Mackay 



Daniel O'Rourke 



Prussian Blue 



Nelson 



Archer 



Chancellor 



Arthur 



Agnes 



Kent 



White Wonder 



English Grev 



Character 



of 

 Growth. 



Good... 

 Medium 



Good... 



Medium 

 Good . . . 



Medium 



Size 



of 



Pea. 



Medium 

 Large . . 

 Small . . 

 Medium 

 Large . . 

 Medium 



It 

 Large . . 



n . . 



Medium 

 Small . . 

 Large . . 

 II . . 

 Medium 

 Small . . 

 Medium 



II 

 Large . . 

 Small .. 

 Medium 

 Large . 



Jledium 



Yield 



per 



Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



35 

 30 

 29 

 28 

 28 

 20 

 24 

 24 

 23 

 22 

 22 

 20 

 20 

 19 

 19 

 19 

 18 

 IS 

 18 

 17 

 16 

 10 

 15 

 14 



20 







20 



40 











40 











40 







20 







20 











40 



40 







20 



40 



40 



20 



40 



Weight 



pfT 

 Bushel. 



Lbs. 



04 



G2J^ 



64 



03 



62 



64 



03 



63i 



04 



65 



0.H 



04" 



63i 



64 



65 



64A 



64| 



65 



65i 



64 



64 



64 



04 



63 



