DIVISION OF CEREALS 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



FLAX EXPERIMENTS. 



Five varieties of flax were sown on May 15 on fallowed land: Common, 

 Improved Russian, White Flowering, Yellow Seed and Premost. Premost gave 

 twenty-two bushels per acre. The seed of the other four varieties was old, and did 

 not germinate over one-third, and the yields were not kept. The seed intended to 

 be sown was destroyed by fire. 



TARES. 



Tares were sown on the 15th of May on fallowed land, but did not ripen before 

 frost came, and were so badly injured that, although cut, were not threshed, and were 

 useless for hay. Frost came on the 15th of September. 



FIELDS OF GRAIN. 



A large quantity of seed grain is raised every year on this Farm for the free 

 distribution carried on from the Central Farm at Ottawa, and also for sale from 

 Indian Head to farmers in Saskatchewan. 



The following table gives a summary of the results from these fields this past 

 season. 



It should be noted that part of the Marquis wheat, ordinary stock, Red Fife 

 wheat and Banner oats was sown on stubble land. The yields of these varieties can- 

 not, therefore, be fairly compared with the others. 



Summary of Returns from Fields of Grain grown for Seed. 



Spring Wheat — 



Marquis, ordinary stock 



Marquis, Special Registered. 



Red Fife 



Prelude 



Variety not named 



Oats — 



Banner 



Abundance. ...... 



Ligowo, Swedish. 



Barley — 



Manchurian 



Mensury 



O. A. C. No. 21.. 

 Canadian Thorpe . 

 Hannchen 



Peas — 



Arthur , 



Golden Vine 



Flax— 



Premost 



Total area. 



Acres. 



30 

 2 



38 

 1 



1 



•8 





 •3 



1 



15 



28 2G 



26 59 



222 



19 



10 



2 



2 



2 



•58 



•5 



•5 



•44 



•42 



Total Yield. 



Bush. 



1,090 

 94 



1,299 

 46 



58 



1,937 



2,118 



241 



1,275 



379 



81 



136 



137 



Lb. 



00 

 12 

 42 

 35 

 10 



35 

 15 

 47 

 11 

 45 



Average Yield 

 per acre. 



Bush. 



35 

 47 

 33 

 42 

 54 



68 



79 



108 



65 

 36 

 32 

 55 

 57 



36 

 50 



15 



Lb. 



23 

 6 



56 

 18 

 26 



18 

 22 

 20 



7 



6 



38 



40 



00 



51 



49 



47 



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