783 



EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



Pive-Year Averages. 



5 GEORGE v., A. 1915 



Variety. 



Improved American . 

 Twentieth Century . . 



Banner .... 



Swedish Select 



Siberian 



'J'housand Dollar ... 



Irish Victor 



Li"-owo 



Orlotf 



Kegenerated Abundance 



Daul ehey 



Victory (average of 4 years) 



Gold Rain (average of 4 years) 



Newmarket (average of 2 years) 



Victor (average of 2 j'ears) 



Garton's No. 22 (average of 2 years). 



Average 

 number 

 of days 



Maturing:. 



101-2 

 101 4 

 100 

 100-8 

 100 4 

 101 

 100-8 

 101 



91 

 101 



92 2 



Average 



strength 

 of straw. 



Fairly stiff. 

 Medium. . . 

 Fairly stiff. 

 Medium . . . 

 Fairly stiff. 

 Mediiuu. . . 

 Fairly stiff. 

 Rather weak 



Stiff 



Fairly .«titf . 



Stiff 



Fairly stiff. 

 Fairly stiff. 

 Fairly stiff. 

 Fairly stiff. 

 Fairly stiff. 



Average 



Yield 

 per acre. 



bu.^h. lb. 



102 

 101 

 100 



97 

 06 

 96 

 95 

 92 

 88 

 88 

 81 

 98 

 96 

 105 

 94 

 85 



32 

 15 

 30 

 19 

 22 

 14 

 29 

 5 

 29 

 17 

 31 

 12 

 15 

 7 

 9 

 20 



IXFLIEXCE OF LOCATION ON SEED OATS. 



In co-operation with two of the American Experiment Stations, an experiment 

 is being tried to compare the i-esults obtained in changing seed from one part of the 

 continent to another. The seed all came originally from the same source. One lot 

 ■was grown in Wisconsin, one in Ohio, and one in Brandon, in 1912. When sown sid^ 

 by side in 1913, the following results were obtained: — 



Brandom. 



