DIVISION OF FORAGE PLANTS 



639 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Cajirots. — Test of Varieties. 



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 2 



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 5 

 6 



Name of Variety. 



Cooper's Yellow Intermediate.. 

 Improved Giant White Belgian. 



ir Mammoth Long 



,. Short White......... 



Mammoth White Intermediate 

 Oxheart 



Average . 



Description 



of 



Variety. 



Yellow,medium short 

 White, very long and 



coarse 



White, long 



White, medium long. 



White, long 



Red, very short 



Yield per Acre 



Tons. Lb. 

 10 1,560 



8 

 14 

 11 

 12 



7 



10 



60 



1,260 



1,540 



200 



1,620 



1,707 



Yield per Acre 



Bush. Lb. 

 359 20 



267 

 487 

 392 

 403 

 260 



361 



40 

 40 

 20 

 20 

 20 



47 



Five Year Averages. 



Three of these varieties have been grown for five years, 

 yields have been obtained during that period : — 



The following average 



Variety. 



Mammoth White Intermediate 



Improved Short White 



Improved Giant White Belgian 



Average Yield 

 per Acre. 



Average Yield 

 per Acre. 



Bush. Lb. 



487 

 473 

 431 



40 

 55 

 51 



EXPERIMENTS WITH ALFALFA, GRASSES AND CLOVERS. 



In 1911 a series of plots of grasses, clovers, alfalfa and mixtures was sown. They 

 were all sown without a nurse crop on fall-ploughed barley stubble. They were clipped 

 off twice during that season. Crops were obtained from these plots in 1912. The month 

 of June was extremely dry, and consequently the yield of the first cutting is a good 

 indication of the drought resistant powers of the different crops. July was very wet 

 and thus the second cutting shows what each crop can do under wet conditions. The 

 year, as a whole, gives a very good test of these crops under the varying conditions that 

 are likely to come. 



ALFALFA. 



The yielding capabilities of alfalfa are strikingly shown in the table on page 

 642. These are equally as well shown in the twenty-acre field. In the first week of 

 July, after there had been six weeks of continued drought and all the other crop3 

 seemed parched, the alfalfa stood up as fresh and green as ever. Alfalfa is becoming 

 increasingly popular in Manitoba, and while the area grown is still small, it is sure 

 to increase greatly as soon as the land can be got ready and the crop put in. A few 

 points on the growing of alfalfa in Manitoba may, therefore, not be out of place in 

 this report. 



