442 



EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



4 GEORGE V., A. 19U 



SIX-ROW BAELEY. 



Ten varieties of six-row barley were tested in uniform test plots. They were 

 sown on May 20, at the rote of two bushels per acre. The land was sandy loam and 

 was summer-fallowed the previous year. Most of the plots were badly lodged, some 

 of the earlier sorts alone escaping. 



Six-row Barley. — Test of Varieties. 



O. A. C. No. 21 and Manchurian are recommended as the best sorts of six-row 

 barley at present under test. 



FIVE YEAR AVERAGES. 



Five of these varieties have been grown for five years with the following average 

 results : — 



Variety. 



O. A. C, No. 21 



Mensury 



Odessa 



Yale 



Mansfield 



Average 



Stiffness of 



Straw. 



Stiff 



Fairly stiff 

 Medium.. . 

 Fairly stiff 

 Fairly stiff . 



Average 



No. of days 



Maturing. 



Average 



yield per 



Acre. 



Bush. Lb. 



67 

 66 

 64 

 63 

 60 



38 

 10 

 34 



18 



TWO-ROW BARLEV. 



Seven varieties of two-row barley were tested in uniform test plots. They 

 were sown on May 20, at the rate of two bushels per acre. The land was sandy loam, 

 summer-fallowed the previous year. Nearly all varieties were very badly lodged by 

 the storms at harvest time. 



