REPORT OF MR. A. MACK AY. 



233 



NEW HYBRID BARLEYS. 



Two named and six unnamed hybrids were tested in the small plots. All are 

 crosses between Swedish two-rowed female and Baxter's six-rowed male, recently- 

 produced at the Central Experimental Farm, but are of different types. 



Name 



of 



Variety. 



Surprise 



Summit 



Type D. 



do P. 



Type A. 



do 11 



do S. 



do C. 



Cross between 



Swedish and Baxter's 6-rd 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 



Ma- 

 tured. 



Days. 



91 

 92 

 91 

 94 

 91 

 94 

 94 

 91 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



Bush. lbs. 



39 .. 



40 32 



Not thr 



Weight 



per 

 Bushel. 



Lbs. 



48 

 46 

 , 48i 

 eshed. 

 47i 

 48 

 49i 

 47 



OATS. 



Forty varieties of oats were tested the past season; all being sown on fallowed 

 land. All the varieties were very heavy in straw and gave good returns with the 

 exception of one 5-acre block which was sown on fall ploughing, and although it gave 

 a fair crop of straw the grain was of poor quality. 



The best return was obtained from Jj^th acre plot of American Banner, sown by 

 press drill on 12th May, which gave lOO bushels per acre. A field of Prize Cluster, 

 15 acres in extent, produced 77*10 per acre and Welcome on a 5-acre plot alongside 

 the Cluster yielded 78*18 per acre. The grain in both these cases was very good. 



FIELD PLOTS. 



Field plots of 15 acres down to 2 acres were sown on different dates. All were 

 very heavy in straw but some of the plots lodged more or less and the grain in these 

 was light. 



The heaviest crop was that of the Welcome, mentioned above which gave 78 

 bushels 18 lbs. per acre. The soil, which was a sandy loam was fallowed, and the 

 land gang-ploughed twice in 1892. Two and one-half bushels of seed was sown per 

 acre and put in by drill. 



TESTS OP FIELD PLOTS OF OATS. 



Name of Variety. 



Welcome 



Banner 



Bonanza 



Cluster 



Blk. Champion 



White Russian . . . . 

 Improved Ligowo. 



English White 



Winter Grey 



'tis 



Lbs. 



43 



36 



40 



40 



36 



39 



40i 



39 



40 



