REPORT OF MR. X. WOLTERTON 



313 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Eai'ID City, Max., October 29, 1906. 



N. WOIAERTON, 



Siipt. Experimental Farm, 

 Brandon, Man. 



Dear Sir, — We received from your farm last winter, 5 bushels of Tied Fife wheat. 

 We sowed this wheat on new land on April 16, the seeder registered not quite 3 acres. 

 It was cut on August 15, and threshed on September 5 from the s^ook, and yielded 

 180 bushels of No. 1 hard wheat. 



Vr. 1^ Head. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH INDIAN COEN. 



Indian corn is grown here for fodder only. The only variety which ripens its 

 grain here is the Squaw Corn. Though the ears of most varieties will not ripen, yet 

 the heavy yield of stalks and leaves gives a large amount of most excellent fodder, 

 averaging over 16 tons of green feed per acre. 



The corn staUvS are fed partly as ensilage and partly dry. In the latter case they 

 nre brought from the field and cut as needed. 



The silo was built long ago and is square. That form is wasteful as the material 

 does not settle as well as in the round silo, and much is spoiled in the corners. It 

 extends from two feet below the stable floor to a height of 11 ft. 6 inches above the 

 next floor, and is inside against the west end of the barn. Sometimes a few inches of 

 ensilage, on the west side is frozen. Dimensions, 24 feet by 8^ f cet x 9 feet inside, 

 and holds 30 tons of green cut corn stalks. We have two such silus. Ensilage was 

 not fed to milking cows as we feared it might taint the milk. 



The corn crop was slightly above the average in weight and the ears were in the 

 early milk stage when cut. 



The corn was sown on June 11, in rows 30 inches apart. The crop was cut 

 August 27. Soil a sandy loam, summer-fallowed. Twenty-three varieties were sown 

 and the yield per acre in each case was calculated from two rows, each 66 feet long. 



I>'DiAN Corn — Test of Varieties. 



1 

 2 



3 



4 



5 



() 



7 



8 



9 



10 



11 



12 



13 



14 



15 



IG 



17 



18 



V.) 



20 



21 

 oo 



23 



Name of Variety. 



Thoroughbred White Flint 

 Champion White Pearl. . 



Longfellow 



Superior Fodder 



Cloud's Early Y.dlow . . . 



Coinpton's Early 



Early Butler..." 



Angel of Midnight 



North Dakota White. . . . 



Eureka 



King Philip 



Red Cob Ensilage 



Salzer'.s All Gold 



Early Mastodon 



Early Longfellow ^ . 



Pride of tlie North ...'.. 

 Giant Prolific Ensilage . 



Early Learning 



Northern Dent 



Mammoth Cul)an 



Selected Learning 



Evergreen Sugar 



White Cap Yellow Dent 



Height. 



Inches. 



93 



10.5 

 98 

 89 



102 

 89 



102 

 82 

 80 

 96 

 91 

 90 

 91 

 98 

 84 

 88 

 86 

 93 

 87 

 99 



100 

 74 



102 



Leafiness. 



Leafy 



Fairly leafy, 



Very leafy . . 

 Fairly leafy. 

 Verj' leafy. . 



Fairly leafy. 

 Very leafy . . 

 Fairly leafy. 



Very leafy . . 



II 

 Fairly leafy . 



When 



Tas- 



selled. 



Aug. 



In Silk. 



16 



16 



8 



16 

 20 

 10 

 12 



8 

 12 

 27 

 11 

 25 

 15 

 22 



(I 

 22 

 15 



8 

 16 

 15» 

 11 

 21 



9 



Aug. 



Con- 

 dition 

 when 



Cut. 



24jSilk... 



221 II . . 



20| ,1 . . 



. . .Tassel. 



Weight per 



Acre grown 



in rows. 



Tons. Lbs. 



Aug. 



II 

 If 

 II 



Aug. 

 Aug. 

 Aug. 

 Aug. 



Aug. 



18.Silk... 

 20i M . . 



21 II . . 

 25 II . . 



. . . Tassel . 



20;Silk ... 



...! Tassel. 



22 Silk... 

 .. Ta.«.sel. 



15 Silk... 

 . . . I Tassel. 



22 Silk ... 



21 



26 



22 



21 

 . . jTassel . 



20'Silk... 



21 

 21 

 21 

 19 

 19 

 19 

 19 

 19 

 19 

 18 

 18 

 18 

 18 

 18 

 18 

 17 

 16 

 16 

 15 

 15 

 14 

 14 

 13 



1,296 



1,560 



768 



1,600 



1,072 



808 



544 



2S0 



10 



9fiO 



696 



432 



{CO 



108 



168 



848 



1,000 



472 



624 



624 



1304 



248 



1984 



Weight ) er 



Acre grown 



in hills. 



Tons. Lbs. 



23 

 20 

 19 

 20 

 20 

 17 

 20 

 16 

 20 

 18 

 18 

 20 

 16 

 16 

 15 

 18 

 16 

 15 

 15 

 14 

 15 

 15 

 16 



464 



392 



1,3.S(; 



1,712 



650 



1,640 



1,184 



1,792 



392 



1,488 



1,752 



1,184 



1,528 



1,000 



360 



1,488 



l,c28 



1,944 



452 



776 



96 



360 



472 



