REPORT OF MR. R. ROBERTSON 



521 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



The land was a light clay loam on which roots (turnips) had been grown the 

 previous year, for which crop manure had been applied at the rate of twenty tons per 

 acre. This was ploughed in the spring (having been entirely too wet the previous 

 fall to be ploughed) and was sown May 24. 



The following were The yields obtained: — 



Cropa. 



4 Acres Black Tartarian Oats 

 1 ii ii Pioneer n 



1 ii Waverley Oats 



2 ii Mixed grain. 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



Weight 

 per Bushel. 



Lbs. 



34 

 34 

 34 



40 



FIELD CROPS OF OATS, BARLEY AND MIXED GRAIN 1 . 



Five acres of oats, barley and mixed grain were sown in one field. The soil was 

 a clay loam in a fairly good state of fertility, having grown clover hay at the rate of 

 two and one-half tons per acre the previous year, no manure having been applied 

 since 1905. The land was ploughed in the fall of 1909, and sown May 24, 1910. 



The following were the yields obtained : — 



Crops 



Acre Sensation Oats 



ii Biack Tartarian Oats 



ii Banner Oats 



ii Odessa Barley 



ii Mixed grain 



Weight 

 per Bushel. 



Lbs. 



34 



34 

 34 



48 

 40 



EXPERIMENTS WITH BARLEY. 



Twenty-one varieties of barley, eleven of six-rowed and ten of two-rowed, were 

 grown in uniform test plots of one-fortieth acre each. 



The land was a light clay loam on which root crops had been grown the previous 

 year (1909), for which crop barn-yard manure at the rate of twenty tons per ajre 

 had been used. No manure or other fertilizer was used for this crop. 



The land was ploughed in the fall of 1909, thoroughly worked up in the spring 

 (1910) and sown May 13, at the rate of two bushels per acre. Timothy and clover 

 seed were also sown with the grain at the rate of seven lbs. common red clover; 

 three lbs. alsike clover and twelve lbs. timothy per acre. 



The oats used were from selected heads of the previous season's crop. 



There was no rust and practically no smut. 



One variety of two-rowed barley (Hannchen), seemed to attract birds (sparrows), 

 to such an extent, that we estimate this variety to have been at least one-half des- 

 troyed. 



The yields from both two-rowed and six-rowed barleys are as follows: — 



16—21 



