30 



EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



EXPERIMKNTS WITH PALL WHEAT. 



During the past season twelve varieties of fall wheat have been tested varying 

 in size from about oV^^ ^o ^ acre. The land on which they were sown was a sandy 

 loam of medium quality. It received a fair coat of barn-yard manure in the spring 

 of 1892, was lightly ploughed to cover the manure and sown with oats. After the 

 oats were harvested the land was immediately gang ploughed to start shed grain 

 and weed seeds and ploughed again and harrowed in September before the wheats 

 were sown. The plots were all sown on September 9th, and the results are given 

 in the appended table. 



Name of variety, 



Manchester 



Early Red Clawson 

 Martin's Amber. . . 

 Jones' Winter Fife. 

 Robert's (Carman's 



No. 3) , 



Willit's (Carman's 



No. 2) 



Democrat 



Johnson (Carman's 



No. 55) 



Stewart (Carman's 



No. 51) 



Tasmania 



Golden Cross 



Welds No. 4 



Length 



of 

 straw. 



Inches. 

 40 to 45 



35 to 40 

 40 to 43 

 46 to 48 

 40 to 42 



42 to 45 



46 to 48 

 40 to 42 



45 to 48 



40 to 42 

 40 to 42 

 40 to 45 



Character 



of 



straw. 



Stiff, 



do 

 do 

 do 

 do 



do 



Fair, 

 do 



Stiff. 



Fair, 

 do , 

 do , 



Length 



of 

 head. 



Inches. 

 2i to 3i 



Kind I Date 



of I . of 

 head, j rii:)ening. 



Beardless July 24 



3 to 34 do 

 2J to 3i do . 

 3 to 3^1 do . 

 8 to 3t!Bearded. 



3 to 3i Beardless 



to 3i 

 to 3| 



3 to 3i 



to 34 

 to 31 



34 to 4 



Bearded . 

 do . 



do' . 



do . 

 do . 

 do 



do 24. 



do 24. 



do 24. 



do 22. 



do 24. 



do 24. 



do 24. 



do 24. 



do 22. 



do 22. 



do 24. 



Yield 

 per 

 acre. 



Bush. lbs. 



24 03 



20 38 



18 37 



18 36 



18 .S3 



17 42 



17 23 



16 50 



16 50 



15 26 



14 34 



12 42 



Weight 



per 

 bushel. 



571 



58i 

 .584 

 54 

 55f 



53i 



564 

 53" 



54 



58 



58| 



561 



Propor- 

 tion 

 rusted. 



Consider- 

 ably, 

 do 



Badly, 

 do 

 do 



do 



do 

 do 



do 



V'ry badly 



'do 



do 



EXPERIMENTS WITH SPRING WHEAT -^^TB. ACRE PLOTS. 



There were tested during 1893, thirty-two varieties of spring wheat. These 

 were sown on clay loam, the previous crop was hay. The laud was ploughed in 

 the summer of 1892, shortly after the removal of the hay crojD, ploughed a second 

 time late in the autumn and gang ploughed and harrowed in the spring before 

 Bowing. It was intended to sow all the plots the same day, but owing to unfavourable 

 weather this was found to be impracticable, a part were sown on May 26th and part 

 on the 27th. The particulars of growth will be found in the appended table, and it 

 will be observed that the yield of most soi-ts was unusually light, a result brought 

 about mainly by rust, from which all varieties suffered. Eust first appeared on the 

 leaves of the spring wheat during the second week in July, and gradually spread to 

 the stems, and by the end of the month it showed itself in a very marked degree, 

 the earlier ripening varieties being most affected. About the middle of August the 

 earlier sorts were cut, but in every instance the yield was poor and the grain was 

 small and did not reach its usual condition of matui-ity. The harvest weather was 

 also bad and rain fell on an average every second day during August and the first 

 week of September, the total rainfall during this period being over nine inches. 

 Under such conditions it was impossible to save the crop satisfactoi-ily, and after it 

 was cut it was several weeks before it could be dried and housed. In the meantime 

 it was found necessary to untie and spread the sheaves and tie again several times, 

 and with so much handling much of the grain was unavoidably shed ; on this account 

 the comparison of varieties as to yield and quality is not of much value this year. 



