DIVISION OF FORAGE PLANTS 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTAL STATION, CAP ROUGE, QUE. 



REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT— G. A. LANGELIER. 



The season was this year a very bad one, continuous wet weather until June 15, 

 keeping seeding back until the 22nd of the month. Then, a drought followed which 

 only ended at the beginning of August. 



A permanent location was chosen in 1912 for the test plots, and the whole area 

 was divided into three equal parts, one for Indian corn and roots, one for cereals, and 

 one for clover. A three-year rotation will thus be followed, and the hoed crops will 

 come after sod, as they should, in the regular order of things, on a well-managed 

 farm. 



Besides the regular test plots, there is a small patch of more than a quarter of an 

 acre in area for experiments with clovers and grasses. 



The test plots of Indian corn were %o acre, and those of the roots }ioo acre. 



Indian Corn for Ensilage. — Test of Varieties. 



Turnips. — Test of Varieties. 



c 



s 



55 



1 



2 

 3 

 4 

 5 

 6 

 7 

 8 

 9 

 10 



Name of Variety. 



Hartley's Bronze 



Perfection Swede 



Hall's Westbury 



Jumbo 



Bangholm Selected.... 



Good Luck 



Carter's Elephant. . . . 



Mammoth Clyde 



Magnum Bonum 



Halewood's Bronze Top 



Date of 

 Sowing. 



June 



26. 



26. 



26 



26. 



26 



26. 



26. 



26. 



26. 



26. 



Date of 

 Pulling. 



Oct. 11 



„ 11 



,. 11 



,. 11 



,. 11 



,. 11 



H 11 



„ 11 



„ 11 



.. 11 



Yield per Acre. 



Bush. 



514 

 495 

 484 

 48 L 

 409 

 387 

 385 

 374 

 332 

 226 



Lb. 



15 

 00 

 00 

 15 

 45 

 45 

 00 

 00 

 45 

 52 



