REPORT OF MR. J. A. CLARE 



301 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Peas — Test 01 Varieties. 



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Name of Variety. 



Size of 

 Pea. 



Blue 



Arthur. 

 Prince . 

 Picton . 

 Prussian 



Paragon 



English Grey 



Daniel O'Rourke 



Black-eye Marrowfat. 



Chancellor 



Mackay 



White Marrowfat... 



Golden Vine 



Gregory 



Medium 

 Large . 

 Medium 



Small . . 

 [Large... 

 Small . . 

 Medium 

 i Large . . 

 j Small . . 

 'Medium 



Yield 



of 

 Grain 



per 

 Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



44 16 



42 55 



41 40 



40 25 



39 4 



35 39 



36 59 

 36 52 

 35 56 

 35 .. 

 34 22 

 32 5 

 27 19 



Weight 

 per mea- 

 sured 

 bush el 

 after 

 clean- 

 ing. 



Lbs. 



65.3 



64 



64 3 



65 



625 



63 



637 



65 



64 



64 



65 



635 



* Straw green when weighed. 



BUCKWHEAT. 



One acre of Silverhull buckwheat was grown as a cover crop to check the fall 

 growth of the apple trees in the orchard. 



Rather poor sod-land was broken in the autumn of 1909. Ten tons per acre of 

 barn-yard manure was applied as a dressing to this in the spring of 1910. The sod 

 was thoroughly worked up during the month of June and the Couch grass worked out 

 of it. It was sown on July 12, and harvested the 30th day of September. 



The straw was still green and did not thresh out as clean as it should. Thirty- 

 three and one-half bushels recleaned seed was obtained from the acre. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH INDIAN CORN. 



Eleven varieties of Indian corn were grown for ensilage. The soil was uneven 

 and unsuitable for uniform test plots, but was the bfst available for the season, 1910. 

 The land had been in potatoes the previous year — that is, parts of it were; the remain- 

 der in stone piles, newly-cleared land and a roadway. 



Nine of these varieties were grown in rows thirty-six inches apart. The plants 

 were thinned to about six inches apart in the rows. Four of the above-mentioned sorts 

 and two promising early varieties were also grown in hills thirty-six inches apart each 

 way. The land was top-dressed with barn-yard m-nure at the rate of fifteen tons per 

 acre. This was well worked in with disc harrows, and the seed sown on June 9. 



The yields of each variety from rows and hills were calculated from two inside 

 rows each sixty-six feet long, the outside rows being discarded. 



