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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



Oats — Test of Varieties. 



2 GEORGE V., A. 1912 



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Name of Variety. 



White Giant. 



Golden Beauty '. 



Swedish Sel< ct 



Danish Island 



Pioneer , 



Wide Awake 



Improved Ligowo 



Siberian 



Lincoln 



Thousand Dollar 



Banner 



Twentieth Century 



Abundance 



Virginia White 



Irish Victor 



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Gold Rain , 



Improved American , 



Date of 

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 116 



Average 

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 2,600 



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 per Acre. 



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 90 



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 77 

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 76 



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 65 

 61 



l?»ush. Lbs . 



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FIELD CROP OF OATS. 



Three acres of oats were grown in one lot. The field was a light clay loam in a 

 fairly good state of fertility, having grown ensilage corn the previous year, for which 

 crop, barn-yard manure at the rate of twenty tons per acre had been used. 



The variety of oats used was Black Tartarian. It was sown May 13, cut August 

 30, and yielded at the rate of 61 bushels 17 lbs. per acre. 



FIELD CROP OF OATS ON MARSH. 



Three acres of oats were grown on ordinary marsh or dyke land, on which timothy 

 had been grown for a long term of years. This land was ploughed in the fall of 1909. 

 and the seed sown May 21 (1910) at the rate of two and a half bushels per acre. The 

 variety used was Pioneer. 



This crop made very indifferent growth from the first, particularly on lower parts, 

 the weather being unusually cold and wet at this season. The field was on a rather 

 low part of the marsh (possibly the lowest) and owing to the breaking of dykes the 

 past season, and the repeated flooding with salt water, no doubt had an unusual amount 

 of salt in the soil, which, we believe, to some extent accounted for the rather indifferent 

 growth all through the season. This field gave a total yield of 75 bushels. 



FIELD CROPS OF OATS AND MIXED GRAIN. 



Eight acres of oats and mixed grain were grown in four lots (four acres Black 

 Tartarian oats; one acre Pioneer oats; one acre Waverley oats; and two acres mixed 

 grain) made up of Sensation oats 2 bushels; Odessa barley 1 bushel; and Golden 

 Vine peas J bushel, by weight, and sown at the rate of three bushels per acre. 



