RETORT OF MR. ll'il/. A. UL'XRO 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



OATS. 



FIKLD LOTS OF OATS. 



Field plots of Thousand Dollar. Banner and Ligowo Oats were sown with the 

 following results. 



The yield of Banner oats was very uneven, due to the effect which the drift of 

 soil had upon it in different parts. Most of the yield came from about two-thirds of 

 the field. 



Field Lots of Oats. 



BARLEY. 



Field Lots of Barley. 

 Mensury barley was sown on three field plots with the following results : — 



BUCKWHEAT. 



A plot of buckwheat was sown on breaking on June 9, and grew splendidly and 

 gave promise of a large yield, but was caught with the frost on August 31. 



FLAX. 



A plot of flax of one-fifteenth of an acre was sown on June 9, and cut on Septem- 

 ber 24, yielding forty-five pounds. It had been sown at the rate of sixty pounds per 

 acre and yielded at the rate of 18-75 bushels per acre. 



Much difficulty is experienced in obtaining clean flax seed. We secured four 

 pounds of good seed and handpicked it, pulled any weeds that appeared in the growing 

 crop and at harvest had forty-five pounds of absolutely pure seed. The same method 

 might be very profitably applied to a sufficient area to produce seed for the next 

 year's field crop. 



