DIVISION OF CEREALIST 



471 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTAL FARM, AGASSIZ, B.C. 



P. H. MOORE, B.S.A., SUPERINTENDENT. 



GRAIN CROPS. 



This year we grew at the Farm here twelve varieties of wheat, fourteen 

 varieties of oats, seven varieties of two-row barley, eight varieties of six-row barley, 

 and thirteen varieties of peas. These varieties were tested in plots of one-sixtieth 

 acre each. 



All of the grain, with the exception of the peas, was sown on land upon which 

 corn had been grown in 1911. The land was a light, sandy loam underlaid with 

 gravel, with the gravel cropping through in some places, but the cultivation was 

 thorough. 



The peas were sown on fall-ploughed land with a couch-grass soil that had been 

 ploughed early the fall before, and an attempt made to have the couch-grass cleaned 

 out. Late in the season of 1912 the couch-grass got a start and somewhat reduced 

 the yield of peas. 



The harvest weather in this section was most abominable, and all grain, except 

 that which had been head selected, got wet many times and the quality was very low. 



SPRING WHEAT. 



Of the twelve varieties sown this year, the Marquis headed the list, but the yield 

 of all of them was low and the quality poor. Two of the varieties, which have not 

 yet been named, are omitted from the table. 



Spring Wheat. — Test of Varieties. 



- 



X 



Name of Variety. 



1 Marquis 



2 Alpha Selected 



3 Bobs 



4 Bishop 



5 Pringle's Champlain. 



(i Preston 



1 Stanley - • 



s Early Red Fife 



n Red Fife 



10 Huron 



Date 



of 

 Ripen- 

 ing. 



Auf 



5 



8 

 9 

 12 

 9 

 6 

 5 

 7 

 9 

 6 



No. of 

 Days 



Matur- 

 ing. 



110 

 113 

 114 

 117 

 114 

 111 

 110 

 112 

 114 

 111 



"3 e-o 



SP"" X 



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 - £ bo 



QCr/")- — 



*- 3 



> o o 



< 



40 

 41 

 3S 

 40 

 38 

 41 

 40 

 41 

 40 

 41 



O a6 



"Sea 



60 



<D C 



S ° 



m 



• 09 



8 



8 

 8 



10 

 8 

 9 

 9 

 7 

 8 

 8 



Average 

 Length 



of 

 Head. 



Inches. 



3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 35 



3 

 3 



35 

 3 



Yield 



of Grain 



per 



Acre. 



Lb. 



1,380 



1,380 



1,260 



1,080 



1,080 



1,020 



960 



960 



840 



720 



Yield of 



G rain 

 per Acre. 



Bush. Lb. 



23 

 23 

 21 

 18 

 18 

 17 

 16 

 16 

 14 

 13 



