REPORT OF 21R. ANGUS MACKAT 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Wheat Crop and Average Yield. 



Variety. 



Preston 



Pringle's Chaniplain 



Bishop 



Huron 



Riga 



Red Fife 



Stanley 



I'ercy 



White Fife 



An average of 30 bushels 31 pounds per acre. 



WHEAT. — FOUR YEARS, COMPARISON OF FIELD LOTS. 



Below are shown the average yield per acre and average time to mature of five 

 varieties of wheat, grown under similar conditions for the past four years. 



Six plots of one-fortieth acre each were sown with Ked Fife wheat on April 11, 

 by hoe-drill, at rate of 1^ bushels per acre. Soil clay loam. 



Fertilizers per Acre, 



I 



Plot No. 1 Nitrate of soda, 100 lbs. per acre 

 (half sown when grain was 2-in. high, balance 

 when 6-in. high) 



Plot No. 2— Nitrate of soda, 200 lbs. per acre 

 (half sown when grain was 2-iii. high, balance 

 when 6in. high) 



Plot No. 3— Ruijerphosphate No. 1, 400 lbs. per 

 acre (sown before grain and harrowed)., . . . 



Plot No. 4— Ch(!ck plot, unfertilized 



Plot No. 5— Muriate of potash, 200 lbs. per acre 

 (sown before grain and harrowed) 



Plot No. 6— Superphosphate No. 1, 200 lbs. per 

 acre ; muriate of potash, 100 lbs. per acre 

 nitrate of soda, 100 lbs. ix-r acre (half sown bf^ 

 fore grain and harrowed, balance when grain 

 was 2-in. high) 



CO 



ip 



'5 



Lbs. 

 6,240 



5,240 



6,880 

 4,800 



Yield 



per 



Acre. 



s 



00. 



tD 



M Hi 



38 



38 



38 20 

 35 20 



5,760 48 40 



3,520 37 20 



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Lbs. 



00 



oof 



60 

 01 



60i 



59 



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