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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Oats — Test of Varieties. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH BARLEY. 



Twenty-one varieties of barley were sown in plots of one-fortieth of an acre each. 

 The previous crop was roots, and, late in the fall, the land was ploughed and harrowed. 

 In March it was ploughed to break up the surface and start the weed seeds. It was 

 harrowed every few days until April 21, when the seed was sown. The seed was treated 

 with formaldehyde and the plot sown at the rate of two and one-half bushels per acre. 

 There was no smut in the grain or rust on the straw, which was bright and fairly 

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Eleven varieties of six-row, and ten varieties of two-row were tested in this series. 



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