REPORT OF MR. /. A. CLARK 



299 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



BLACK OATS. 



Two varieties of black oats were sown in acre plots. This land was too wet to 

 sow earlier than May 31. The soil conditions were quite different from those under 

 which the white oats were grown, but lacked uniformity, as shown by the yields on the 

 three plots of Norway sown at different dates, or under different soil conditions. The 

 seed was obtained from seed merchants. 



The results were as follows : — 



Average yield per acre : 61 bushels, 14 pounds. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH BARLEY. 



Experiments were conducted in uniform test plots with twenty-one varieties of 

 barley (eleven of six-row and ten of two-row) in plots of one one-hundredth of an 

 acre each. The soil was a sandy loam on which potatoes had been grown the previous 

 year (1909). No manure or fertilizer was used for this crop after possession of the 

 land was obtained. 



The land was worked thoroughly with spring-tooth and disc harrows, without using 

 a plough, in the spring of 1910 and sown on May 14 at the rate of two bushels per 

 acre. Clover was sown with these at the rate of : Common Red, 6 lbs. : Alsike, 3 lbs. 

 White Dutch, 1 lb. 



There was no rust, but the Hannchen and Swedish Chevalier were slightly lodged. 



Six-row Barley — Test of Varieties. 



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Name of Variety. 



Albert 



Claude 



Mensury 



Nugent 



Mansfield 



Stella 



Odessa 



O. A. C. No. 21. 



Trooper 



Yale 



Oderbruch 



Weight 



per 

 measur- 

 ed bush- 

 el after 

 clean- 

 ing. 



Lbs. 



498 



51 1 



49 



49-2 



50 5 



495 



46 



49 



491 



50 5 



46 



