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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



2 GEORGE V., A. 1912 



EXPERIMENTS WITH OATS. 



All experiments with oats were conducted on land top-dressed in 1908 after the 

 bay was cut and ploughed out of sod after the hay crop of 1909 was harvested. As 

 soon as the land was ploughed it was packed and thoroughly disced. The land on 

 which the variety test was conducted was ploughed somewhat later than the land on 

 which the dates of sowing and quantities of seed tests were carried on. The early 

 ploughed land had greater opportunity for storing moisture, hence the larger yields 

 in the dates of sowing and quantites of seed test as compared with the variet\ t .. 

 The seed was sown at the rate of about two and three-quarter bushels per acre, with the 

 exception of ' Regenerated * Abundance which was sown at the rate of seven bushels per 

 acre. Twenty-six varieties were tested and were s6wn on one-sixtieth acre plots on 

 April 11. The soil was a black clay loam. 



Oats — Test of Varieties. 



OATS — DATES OK SOWING. 



Banner oats were So.vn one week apart, the first seeding being made on March 31, 

 continuing to May 12. The heaviest yield was secured from the plot sown April 28, 

 which made 157 bushels 2 lbs. per acre. As has been noted previously, spring opened 

 early but there was little growth until after the middle of April, which explains, to 

 some extent, the reason the first-sown plot required thirty-three days longer to mature 

 than the last sown. 



