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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



TEST OF STUBBLE FALL PLOUGHED, SPRING PLOUGHED, WITHOUT PLOUGHING AND 



FALLOWED LAND. 



In this test two acres of stubble land was ploughed in the fall of 1892, two acres 

 of stubble ploughed with a gang plough at the time of seeding, two acres of stubble 

 land sown by press drill without ploughing and not touched before or after using 

 drill, and two acres of fallow were sown. The stubble in all cases had been fallowed 

 in summer of 1891 and had produced a crop of Eed Fife in 1892. 



The fallow land gave much the better result, and the fall ploughing the result 

 expected, and the result that has always been had in our experience, a much 

 smaller crop no matter how well the work may be done. Spring-ploughing and the 

 plot sown by the press-drill without ploughing, gave ^ fine crop of straw and a 

 good yield of grain, but the sample was shrunken. 



TEST OF FALL AND SPRING PLOUGHING AND PRESS-DRILL ON STUBBLE COMPARED WITH 



SUMMER FALLOW. 



SMUT TESTS. 



Two kinds of seed were used in these tests; one badly affected by smut and the 

 other almost entirely free from it. 



The same treatment was given in each case namely, one pound of bluestone in 

 one and one half pails of water to 5, 7 and 10 bushels wheat; all mixed on the 

 barnfloor and turned over several times. The heads were counted on six feet square 

 in each plot. 



RESULTS OF SOWING SMUTTY WHEAT, TREATED AND UNTREATED. 



