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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



2 GEORGE V., A. 1912 



Six-Rowed Barley — Test of Varieties. 



5 

 ' 5 



1 



_2 



3 



4 



5 

 6 

 7 

 8 

 9 

 10 

 11 



Name of Variety. 



Stella 



Oderbruch 



Nugent 



Mansfield 



Odessa 



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Yale 



Trooper 



Claude 



Albert 



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a 



S3"". 



u 

 > o 



< 



Inches 



42 

 43 

 40 

 44 

 42 

 38 

 44 

 44 

 44 

 42 

 40 



is 



W-t »— I 



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bo <* 



-' 

 <U c 



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10 

 8 



10 



7 



8 



4 



10 



10 



8 



10 



10 



Weight 

 pel- 

 measured 

 bushel 

 after 

 cleaning. 



Lbs. 



534 

 520 

 52 



52 

 51 1 

 49 7 

 500 

 51 

 520 



53 

 527 



Two -Rowed — Test of Varieties. 





A 



1 



2 

 3 

 4 



5 

 6 

 7 

 8 

 9 

 10 



Name of Variety. 



Invincible 



Swedish Chevalier 



Jarvis 



Clifford 



Danish Chevalier. 



Stand well 



Canadian Thorpe. 

 French Chevalier. 



Reaver 



Hannchen 



Yield of 



Grain 

 per Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



59 

 51 

 50 

 47 

 45 

 43 

 40 

 39 

 38 

 25 



08 

 32 

 40 

 24 

 40 

 16 



OS 

 16 



Weight 



per 



measured 



bushel 



after 



cleaning. 



Lbs. 



540 

 550 

 54 2 

 540 

 54 3 

 511 

 51-8 

 56 



52 8 



53 6 



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 

 June 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. akJf.e clover, and twelve lbs. timothy seed per acre. 



The pea crop made very indifferent growth in the early part of the season, but 

 improved materially later. 



The following were the yields obtained: — 



