283 EXPEKIMEyiAL FARMS 



5 GEORGE v., A, 1915 

 FANNED VEESUS NOT FANNED WHEAT FOE SEED. 



An interesting experinient has been conducted with fanned and not fanned 

 ]\farquis wheat for seedinj? pui'poses. The results indicate the importance of a care- 

 ful grading of all seed grain. 



Wheat fanned twice yielded 38 bush. 00 lb. per acre. 



Wheat f aimed once yielded 2<» " .50 



Wheat not fanned yielded 24 " 00 •' 



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SOIL ■ CULTTJEAL EXPEEIMENTS. 



A series of soil cultivation experiments is being conducted and, as far as it 

 has been possible to judge, the yields have not been influenced other than by the 

 treatment given. Among the experiments conducted, the following are tliose con- 

 sidered conclusive enough to be reported upon : — 



DEPTH OF PLOUGHING. 



A. Ploughing on wheat stubble to be sovni to oats. n 



B. Ploughing for summer-fallow. 



C. Ploughing on sod. 



The deep working of the land in the summer-fallow year did not appear to give 

 •any special result's on the first succeeding crop (wheat) but influenced favourably 

 the second crop (oats). 



In the breaking out of sod, ploughing at a depth of five inches gave better ivsults 

 than at 3 or 4 iuches. This practice also proved superior, this year, to brooking 

 sod 3 inches and ploughing the wheat stubble 6 inches for the following oat crop. 



SUMMER-FALLOAV TREATMENT. 



In the experiment with methods of summer-fallowing, the following points have 

 been indicated : — 



1. That it is of advantage to plough summer-fallow but once. 



2. That deep ploughing gives better results than shallow ploughing. 



3. That working or ploughing the stubble land in the fall previous to the 

 summer-fallow does not always result in increased yields. 



STUBBLE TREATMENT. 



The fall or spring ploughing of stubble land proved better practice than the burn- 

 ing of the stubble in spring, and then s-eeding. 



SEEDING TO GRASS AND CLOVER. 



When the seeding of grass is made with a nurse crop, the yield of hiij- is 

 increased, but the increase is not sufficient to compensate for the loss of crop sus- 

 tained when seeding alone. 



Lacombe. 



