SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



REPORT OF MR. JAMES MURRAY 36] 



Barley — Test of Varieties. 



Average Yield for Five Years. 



The following tab 1 gives the average yield and the average number of days 

 maturing for several of the leading varieties of barley for the past five years. 



Six-Row Barley. 



Two-Row Barley. 



Field Crops of Barley, 1910. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH PEAS. 



The pea crop is not grown as extensively in Manitoba as its value warrants. It 

 is probably the most valuable annual leguminous crop that we can grow. Like the 

 other legumes, it is able to utilize the nitrogen of the air in its growth and stores 

 considerable of it in its roots. This goes to enrich the land when the crop is removed. 

 It is a rank-growing crop and might be used to advantage in this province as a green 

 crop to plough down to increase the humus of the soil, as clover does not attain sufficient 

 6ize in one season here to make it valuable for that purpose. Peas will produce an 



