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FIELD CROPS OF BARLEY. 



Duck-hill, Two-rowed. — On sandy loam; previous crop was vegetables; ploughed 

 in spring of 1893, and harrowed with smoothing harrow before sowing, 2^ acres; 

 sown May 12th, If bushels per acre; ripe, August 7th ; time to mature, 87 days ; 

 yield per acre, 22 bushels, 15 lbs.; weight per bushel, 42f lbs. ; length of head, 3^ 

 to 3f inches ; length of straw, 39 to 43 inches, all standing well but considerably 

 rusted ; no smut. 



Oderbruch, Six-rowed. — On light sandy loam ; previous crop was corn ; land 

 ploughed in autumn of 1892 ; gang-ploughed in spring of 1893, and harrowed before 

 sowing; 2 acres; sown May 31st; If bushels per acre; ripe, August 10th; time to 

 mature, 71 days ; yield per acre, 22 bushels 19 lbs.; weight per bushel, 46^ lbs.; 

 length of head, 2^ to 3 inches; length of straw, 28 to 30 inches ; all standing well, 

 but rusted considerably ; a very few heads or smut. 



Baxter's Six-rowed. — On light sandy loam ; previous crop was corn ; ploughed 

 in autumn ol 1892 ; gang ploughed in spring of 1893, and harrowed before sowing ; 

 1 acre; sown. May Slst; If bushels per acre; ripe, August 10th ; time to mature, 

 71 days; yield per acre, 14 bushels, 33 lbs.; weight per bushel, 48 lbs.; length of 

 head, 2 to 2|- inches ; length of straw, 30 to 32 inches ; all standing well ; a con- 

 siderable quantity of smut, and more or less rust. 



Bennie's Improved Six-rowed. — This was grown alongside of Baxter's six-rowed, 

 on similar soil ; the preparation of the land was the same ; 2|- acres; sown. May 

 31st; If bushels per acre; ripe, August 11th; time to mature, 72 days ; yield per 

 acre, 19 bushels, 33 lbs. : weight per bushel, 47Jlbs.; length of head, 2-| to 3 inches; 

 length of straw, 32 to 36 inches ; all standing well ; very little smut, but somewhat 

 rusted. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH OATS. 



The rust which struck the wheat and barley about the middle of July affected 

 the oats to a much greater extent, spreading over leaves, stems and panicles, and 

 exhausting the plants to such a degree that early in August, in most cases, 

 all growth appeared to have ceased, and the grain dried up prematurely ; com- 

 paratively few of the kernels filled, and the crop for the greater part was very light 

 both in yield and weight of grain. To publish particulars of such results would 

 only tend to mislead, as no satisfactory evidence could be gained of relative earliness 

 or yield under such conditions. In many instances those oats grown on the heaviest 

 and best soils, which under ordinary conditions would have given good returns, 

 gave the poorest results. The best yield was from a field ©f a variety known as 

 Abundance, which gave 36 bushels 11 lbs, per acre, weighing 33|- lbs. per bushel, 

 while the sam^e variety grown on a heavier and better soil was so eaten up with 

 rust that it gave only 11 bushels 11 lbs. per acre, weighing 20 lbs. per bushel. 



Spratino for Eust. 



About the time when the rust began to appear one-half of a large num- 

 ber of experimental plots of oats and wheat were carefully sprayed from top 

 to bottom with the usual solution of copper carbonate, and on some of the plots the 

 spraying was tried a second time but there was no perceptible difference between 

 the sprayed and unsprayed portions, the remedy seemed to have no influence in 

 staying the progress of the rust. 



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