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EXPERIHENTAL FARMS 



7-8 EDWARD VII., A. 1908 

 RESULTS OF FIRST TWO YEARS, 190^1906. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH OATS. 



Forty varieties of oats were tested on uniform plots of one-twentieth of an acre 

 each. The land was a rather heavy clay loam, summer-fallowed. The weaker kinds 

 were lodged badly; there was considerable rust on most of the leaves; and no smut. 



The yield was good and the quality excellent. Both last year and this the Dau- 

 beney ripened fourteen days earlier than the Banner. Our seed of this oat is not pure. 

 A few heads of a later and taller oat showed. These were hand pulled from the test 

 plot but, from lack of time, were not pulled from the field plot. 



All the seed was treated with formalin, and was sown May 9 and 10. 



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