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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



2 GEORGE V., A. 1912 

 Spring Wheat (non-irrigated) — Test of Varieties. 



FIELD LOTS OF SPRING WHEAT. 



Wheat sown on stubble land, although it came up, did not grow more than ten 

 inches or a foot high, and failed to produce any crop at all. There was apparently 

 no difference in the amount of grow.th on the stubble land where spring ploughed and 

 on that double-disced in the spring and not ploughed. The crop also failed on a three- 

 acre field of June breaking. The straw was somewhat higher and heavier on this than 

 on the stubble land, but there was not enough grain produced to pay for cutting. 



The following fields were sown on summer-fallowing at the rate of about one bushel 

 end one peck per acre. 



Field Lots of Spring Wheat. 



SPRING WHEAT — RATES OF SEED PER ACRE. 



In the following experiment, the size of the plots used was one-twentieth acre. 

 They were all sown April 4. The preparation of the land for 1910 was summer-fallow, 

 for the two previous seasons, June breaking. The variety used for the three seasons 

 was Red Fife. 



