SESSIONAL PAPER No. 



REPORT OF MR. IT", II. FAIRFIELD 



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ments that are made in this connection must he considered as tentative. Sixty pounds 

 of winter wheat and seventy to seventy-five pounds of spring wheat is probably a safe 

 quantity to sow per acre. 



SMUT. 



Both winter and spring wheat seed should always be treated for bunt or stinking 

 smut. Either the formalin or the bluestone method is satisfactory providing the work 

 is done carefully. Very smutty grain should never be used for seed, for, even when 

 treated thoroughly, some smut is apt to appear in the resulting crop. If seed wheat 

 is treated every year whether any smut can be found in it or not the trouble will be 

 kept in subjection. With either method, it is important that each kernel be thoroughly 

 wet. As to the strength of the solution, it should be strong enough to kill smut spores, 

 but not so strong as to injure the vitality of the grain. The strength of solution most 

 often recommended is one pound of formalin to thirty-two gallons of water, and in the 

 case of bluestone, one pound dissolved in six gallons of soft water. The sacks into 

 which the grain is to be put after it is treated should have been dipped in the solution 

 also. In the case of formalin, it is the fumes that kill the spores, so, after the grain 

 has been treated, it is a good plan to throw it into a heap and cover it with a canvas or 

 with empty sacks, but see that the covering used is free from smut spores. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH OATS. 



OATS — TEST OF VARIETIES. 



Twenty-one varieties were sown on April 14, at the rate of about two bushels and 

 one peck per acre on summer-fallow. The area of each plot was one-sixtieth acre. 



Oats (non-irrigated) — Test of Varieties. 



3 



Name of Variety. 



Improved American. . 



Lincoln 



Abundance 



4 Banner 



5 Irish Victor 



G Danish Island. . . . 



7. Golden Beauty 



8, Improved Ligowo 



White Ciant 



10 Wid« Awake 



11 Twentieth Century. . . 



12 Pione&r 



13 Siberian 



j4, Virginia White 



i5iSwedish Select 



16 Thousand Dollar 



f7 Dodd's White 



■j8 Victory 



jg Gold Rain 



20 Garton's ' Regenerated ' 



Abundance 



21 Sixty Day 



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