760 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



5 GEORGE v., A. 1915 



Fo7- the Maritime Provinces. — Red Fife and White Fife are very good. If early 

 sorts are required, Huron and Marquis are recommended. White Russian is popular. 

 It gives a large yield, but is of poor quality for bread-making. 



For Manitoba and Saskatchewan. — Marquis is the best variety for most districts. 

 Red Fife is excellent for localities where there is no danger of early frosts. For dis- 

 tricts where extreme earliness is required and where there is sufficient rainfall to 

 produce a good length of straw, the new variety Prelude is highly recommended. 

 Pioneer, another new and very early-ripening sort should be given a trial if the con- 

 ditions are too dry for Prelude. 



For Alberta. — Red Fife is perhaps the best sort for some of the dry areas towards 

 the south, but, wherever there is sufficient rainfall, Marquis should be tried. If 

 early-maturing varieties with longer straw than Marq^iis are essential, Huron or 

 Early Red Fife should be tested. Pioneer, a new variety recently introduced by 

 the Dominion Cerealist, ripens earlier than any of the above-mentioned sorts, and 

 has given good results under dry conditions. It is bearded and produces straw which 

 is usually of fair' llength. It is not adapted to moist districts. For all ,localities 

 where the tendency is towards the production of excessively long straw and where 

 a very early-ripening wheat is required, Prelude is unquestionably the best variety 

 known. 



For British Columbia. — ^Huron is one of the best varieties. Red Fife and Mar- 

 quis may not generally give quite such large crops but they are more popular for 

 bread-making. Prelude or Pioneer may be useful in a few localities where extreme 

 earliness is essential. 



WINTER WHEAT. 



Five of the most important varieties of winter wheat were sown early in Sep- 

 tember, 1912. The young plants grew fairly well in the autumn, but all varieties 

 suffered so severely from winter-killing that np proper estimate of their yield could 

 be made. 



The varieties sown were Buda Pesth, Dawson's Golden Chaff, Egyptian Amber, 

 Tasmania Red, and Turkey Red No. 380. 



As the climate of Ottawa is rather too severe for satisfactory experiments with 

 winter wheat, this part of the cereal work is being transferred to the Exnerimental 

 Station at Sidney, B.C. 



EMMER AND SPELT. 

 There was no land available last season for experiments with emmer and spelt. 



OATS. 



Only thirty-six varieties of oats were sown at Ottawa in the regular test plots. 

 Most of the named varieties were unavoidably omitted, on account of the shortage of 

 land. 



The oats were sown from April 22 to May 12, the seed being used at the rate of 

 about two bushels per acre, except when the oats were unusually large, when about one- 

 fourth or one-half as much seed again was used. 



Only the named varieties of oats tested are mentioned in the table. The varieties 

 not yet named are chiefly hulless sorts produced by crossing the Chinese Naked 

 with two of the best oats which retain their hull. By subsequent selection only the 

 hulless types have been retained. 



Ottawa. 



