Dl VISION OF FORAGE PLANTS 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTAL FARM, AGASSIZ, B.C. 



REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT— P. H. MOORE, B.S.A. 



HOED CROPS. 



During the season of 1912, tests of the following varieties of hoed crops were 

 carried on at this Farm: Ensilage corn, eight varieties; turnips, ten varieties; 

 mangels, nine varieties; carrots, five varieties; sugar beets, three varieties. 



All of this material was planted on a pasture field which had been ploughed 

 early the previous fall, worked occasionally to kill the weeds, ploughed deeper late 

 in the fall and then manured during the late winter and spring with a light coat of 

 about sixteen tons of barnyard manure. 



Although all varieties are on comparable land this year, they do not compare 

 with the results obtained in 1911, as they were on decidedly different land and had 

 different treatment. A short note will be given with regard to the cultivation methods 

 of each class of crop under the following headings : — 



ENSILAGE CORN. 



Six varieties of Indian corn and two varieties of Kafir corn were grown for 

 ensilage. They were planted on land treated as that for the rest of the hoed crops, 

 only no commercial fertilizer was added. The Longfellow, although not the heaviest 

 yieider, gave us the best all round ensilage results. 



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Variety. 



Angel of Midnight 



Learning 



Compton's Early 



Wood's Northern Dent 



Longfellow 



Early Mastodon 



Kafir Corn 



Kafir Corn (perennial) 



Average of the 6 first varieties . 



Planted. 



May 27. 



.. 27. 



» 27. 



.. 27. 



.. 27. 



•i 27. 



n 27. 



„ 27. 



Cutting 

 Date. 



Sept. 26. 



„ 26. 



.. 20. 



„ 26. 



.. 26. 



.. 26. 



•i 26. 



.. 26. 



Average 

 Height. 



Inches. 



96 

 89 

 92 

 84 

 86 

 102 

 52 

 42 



Condition when Cut. 



Glazed 



Milk stage 



Uneven roastingstage 



No ears 



Roasting stage 



No ears 



Some seed 



No heads , 



Weight 



per 



Acre. 



Tons. Lb. 



17 

 16 

 15 

 15 

 14 

 11 

 5 

 4 



15 



320 

 1,220 

 1,240 



140 



600 

 1,436 



670 

 1,790 



159 



TURNIPS. 



The turnips were grown on the same sort of land as mangels, and with the same 

 methods of cultivation, as near as could be applied, with the exception of not 

 ieeeiving any commercial fertilizer. In the under-noted table it will be seen that the 

 Hall's Westbury is mentioned as being the heaviest yieider, but this is partly 

 accounted for by having about two hundred pounds of commercial fertilizer added 

 to the plot, and this does not make it comparable with other varieties. 



