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EXPERIMENT A L FARMS 



2 GEORGE V., A. 1912 



Six-Rowed Barley — Test of Varieties. 



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Trooper 



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Two -Rowed — Test of Varieties. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH PEAS. 



Thirteen varieties of peas were sown on test plots of one-fortieth acre each. 



The land was a clay loam in a rather poor state of fertility, no manure having been 

 •used on this land for quite a number of years, and on which timothy and clover hay 

 had been grown the previous year. This was ploughed in the fall of 1909, and sown 

 ,1 une 3 at the rate of from two to three bushels per acre according to the size of the 

 pea. Timothy and clover seed were also sown at the rate of seven lbs. common red 

 clover; three lbs. alsike clover, and twelve lbs. timothy seed per acre. 



The pea crop made very indifferent growth in the early n;irt of the season, but 

 improved materially later. 



The following were the yields obtained': — 



