300 



EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



2 GEORGE V., A. 1912 



Two-row Barley — Test of Va ieties. 



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Name of Variety. 



Invincible 



Swedish Chevalier 



Hannchen 



Stand well 



Clifford 



French Chevalier. 



Beaver 



Canadian Thorpe. 



Jarvis 



Danish Chevalier. 



Weight 



per 

 measur- 

 ed bush- 

 el after 

 clean- 

 ing. 



Lbs. 



503 



50 



533 



51 



528 



54 



49 



51-5 



49 5 



498 



ACRE PLOTS OF BARLEY. 



One acre of Mandscheuri barley (six-row) was grown on heavy, wet land; the 

 previous crop had been oats. It was injured very much by water. The seed was 

 obtained from seed merchants, was sown on June 6, and gave a yield of 35 bushels 

 per acre. 



One acre of Duck-bill barley (two-rowed) was grown on a heavy, wet soil which 

 flooded after the barley was up and drowned out quite a considerable area. The seed 

 was sown on June 6, and yielded 20 bushels of a poor quality of grain. 



EXPEKIMENTS WITH PEAS. 



Thirteen varieties of peas were grown under uniform conditions on plots of one 

 one-hundredth of an acre each. The land was a sandy loam which had been in potatoes 

 the previous year. The soil was worked to a fine condition of tilth and sown on May 

 13, at the rate of about two bushels per acre. At the same time it was sown with Com- 

 fhion Red clover G lbs., Alsike 3 lbs., White Dutch 1 lb. per acre. 



