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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Treatment of Wheat Stubble to be sown to Wheat. 



Plot No. 



1 

 2 

 3 

 1 

 5 

 6 

 7 

 8 

 9 

 10 



Treatment given Wheat Stubble preceding Wheat. 



Plough, autumn 



Disc harrow, autumn 



Burn stubble— then disc, autumn 



Burn stubble— then plough, autumn 



Burn stubble in spring— seed at once 



Plough in spring — seed at once 



Disc at cutting time — spring plough 



Disc at cutting time- autumn plough 



Plough, autumn — subsurface pack at once. 

 Plough, spring — seed — subsurface pack . . . 



Yield of Wheat per acre, 1912. 



Treatment of Wheat Stubble to be sown to Oats. 



SEEDING TO GRASS AND CLOVER. 



The various operations that were called for this year, in this experiment, were 

 carried through. As several years' preparatory work are necessary, in growing the 

 different crops which precede the seeding down, it has not been possible to obtain 

 results as yet. 



The following are the methods being tested in this experiment : — 



1. Seeding Eye grass 16 pounds, and red clover 10 pounds with nurse crop on summer- 

 fallow. 



2. Seeding Rye grass 16 pounds, and red clover 16 pounds, alone after summer -fallow. 



3. Seeding Rye grass 10 pounds, and red clover 16 pounds, with nurse crop on first year 

 after hoed crop. 



4. Seeding Rye grass 16 pounds, and red clover 16 pounds, alone after hoed crop. 



5. Seeding Rye grass 16 pounds, and red clover 16 pounds, with nurse crop on first year 



wheat stubble. -,%..* i_ 



6. Seeding Rye grass 16 pounds, and red clover 16 pounds, alone after first year wheat. 



7. Seeding Rye grass and red clover with oats to cut green on first year wheat stubble. 



8. Seeding Rye grass 10 pounds, and red clover 10 pounds, alone on first year wheat 

 stubble, manuro*8 tons per acre, ploughed preceding fall. 



9. Seeding Rye grass 10 pounds, and red clover 10 pounds, with nurse crop on second year 



wheat stubble. .,,,,» j i ** j 



10. Seeding Rye grass 10 pounds, and red clover 16 pounds, alone after second year gram 



11. Seeding Rye grass 16 pounds, and red clover 16 pounds, with nurse crop on second 

 year after hoed crop. 



BREAKING SOD FROM CULTIVATED GRASSES AND CLOVERS. 



As the block of land allotted to this experiment was not in sod at the start, it 

 was first necessary to grow the sod. The land was seeded down in 1911, produced a 

 crop of hay this year (1912), and will be ready for the first set of plots to be broken 

 up in 1913. 



