DIVISION OF FIELD HUSBANDRY 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Soil packers. — Experiment No. 10.— 



(a) Sowing wheat on summer- fallow. 



(b) Sowing on spring-ploughed stubble land. 



(c) Sowing on fall-ploughed stubble land. 



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Depth of seeding. — Experiment No. 11. 

 Commercial fertilizer. — Experiment No. 

 Under draining. — Experiment No. 13. 



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QUANTITIES OF SEED PER ACRE. 



Spring Wheat. 



In previous reports, the results of experiments with different quantities of seed 

 per acre have been published. These reports have pointed to the advisability of com- 

 paratively heavy seeding for all cereals. Room was not available this year for con- 

 ducting as wide a range of experiments with different quantities of seed as could have 

 been wished, but the results of such experiments as were conducted point in the same 

 direction as those of previous years. Marquis wheat was sown at the rate of one 

 bushel to the acre, increasing one peck with each plot, up to two bushels per acre. One 

 bushel per acre yielded at the rate of nineteen bushels per acre, while seed used at the 

 rate of two bushels per acre, yielded at the rate of forty-two bushels per acre. 



Oats. 



Barley. 



Mensuiy barley was sown at the following rates of seed per acre, on one-fortieth 

 acre plots, on April 27. 



