D/r/.S/OA or CEREALS 



823 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTS WITH BARLEY. 



Six varieties, two of two-row and four of six-row were sown in uniform test plots 

 of one-sixtietli of an acre on land on which roots had been grown the previous year 

 "with the same treatment as for the oats. The bai'ley was sown May 2 and 3 at the rate 

 of 2 bushels per acre. The yield of Sidney and Canadian Thorpe are ver.y low. These 

 two plots were somewhat higher than the rest of the plots and, in consequence, did 

 not yield as well as the others. The following are the yields obtained': — 



BAliLEY. T!:ST OP \ AHIKTIES. 



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c 



Name of Variety. 



Tv:o-roir. 



1 Canadian Thorpe. 



2 Sidney 



Date 



of 



Sowing . 



Six- ran-. 



May 



Champion May 



Men^uly " 



Success j 11 



Claude ; h 



Date 



of 

 Rijien- 



in^. 



6f ~ 



be 1 S 



Aug. 



3iJuly 



3|Aug. 

 SlJuly 

 2|Aug. 



11 



8 



311 



?5 



102 

 99 



GO 

 91 

 85 

 93 



c, r. 



< -■ 



O 



be 

 c 



Inches. 



28 

 30 



35 

 28 

 36 

 30 





Yield of 



Grain 



i:er Acre. 



Weight 



jier 



Measured 



per Acre. ^j^^^. 



I Cleaninpr. 



Yield/of 

 Grain 



Lb. 



3.360 

 3,300 



4,080 

 5,220 

 4.320 

 4, ICO 



Bush. Lb. 



48 36 

 30 20 



65 .. 



61 12 



60 .. 



60 .. 



Lb. 



53-3 

 53 



45 

 51 3 

 47 



50-8 



EXPERIMENT WITH FIELD PEAS. 



One variety. Arthur, was tested on a one-thirtieth acre plot. It had been manured 

 and a crop of potatoes had been grown on the land in 1912. After being- well worke I 

 with a disc harrow and then with a smoothing- harrow, the plot was sown on ^lay 1 at 

 the rate of tv\'o bushels per acre. The vines made a very strong growtli in the early 

 season, but wet weather in the early i^art of August prol-nged the ripening- period. 

 The yield was very good. This variety ripened August 16 (108 days) ; average length 

 of straw 42 inches; average length of \hu\, 2-7 inches; yield per acre, 42 bushels (2,520 

 pounds) ; weight per bushel, (^5A pounds. 



EXPEEIMENTS AT FORT RESOLUTION, MACKENZIE DISTRICT. 



Seeding began about the middle of May, under rather favourable conditions, the 

 soil being moist. But as it is a muck soil and drought set in at once, some of tht; 

 grain did not come up. The latter part of May and June were exceptionally cold. 

 There was a sharp frost on June 25, and the grain suffered somewhat. Towards the 

 end of July and the beginning of August there was abundant rainfall, but it came 

 rather late to benefit the crops. 



The following varieties of grain were sown with seed ripened at this station in 

 1912. Owing to the depredations of birds, all the grain was destroyed towards the 

 beginning of September: — 



