REPORT OF MR. S. A. BEDFORD. 



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HOME GROWN, AGAINST CHANGED SEED. 



Red Fife was procured from the North-west Territories and sown alongside of 

 Eed Fife grown on the Experimental Farm, the result is slightly in favour of the 

 home grown seed, but the experiment will have to be repeated several times before 

 a safe conclusion can be reached. 



Sown on black loam soil 5th May with a common drill, 1^ bushels per acre, land 

 summer-fallowed the previous year, size of plots one-tenth acre. 



CULTIVATION OP PALL PLOUGHED LAND. 



With the object of retaining moisture it is generally considered advisable to 

 harrow and roll land after ploughing in the fall. To ascertain whether this method 

 is beneficial or not four adjoining plots were selected, one received a fall ploughing 

 only, the others were also worked more or less with harrow and roller. 



It will be seen by the accompanying table that the plot simply fall ploughed, 

 gave the largest return, and was the freest from weeds. 



The absence of weeds can be explained by the more thorough work of the 

 harrow in spring on the rough fuiTows of this plot. For a comparison a summer- 

 fallowed plot adjoining was sown the same time, this gave three bushels per acre 

 more than the best of the fall ploughed plots, and nearly five bushels more than the 

 average of them. 



Soil black loam, summer-fallowed, sown with press drill on the 2nd May, IJ 

 bushels seed per acre, bluestoned, no smut or rust, size of plots one-tenth of an 

 acre. 



